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Saturday Prayer & Praise 8/12/2023

George Whitefield: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers Oh when will I be free from indwelling sin? Lord deliver me from this body of death! Deal with me as it pleases you, Lord. You may justly take everything from me, for … Continue reading

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Life In Focus 8/12/2023

The Sin of Lust JOB’S sufferings caused him to make a sweeping inventory of his inner life. One of the areas he evaluated was his attitude toward women and how he handled his own sexual drives. Job openly acknowledged the … Continue reading

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Unseen Ripples

For Saturday August 12, 2023 Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. If you throw a stone into the middle of a lake on a starless night, will there be ripples? … Continue reading

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Classic Devotional 8/12/2023

Centuries of Meditations – First Century 45 This is a lesson long enough: which you may be all your life in learning, and to all Eternity in practicing. Be sensible of your wants, that you may be sensible of your … Continue reading

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Worship God In Truth – 4

Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 12-13; 18:9-22 3. Respecting Life Please read Deuteronomy 12:15-16; 20-28 for the background to this section. These verses focus on the Jews’ treatment of the blood of animals that were either sacrificed at the altar or eaten … Continue reading

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Daily Prayer & Praise 8/11/2023

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, no words of ours can describe you. No thoughts of ours can hold you. No actions of ours can control you. You are utterly beyond us. Your greatness, sovereignty and power simply cannot be imagined. … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 8/11/2023

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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John 12:35

Friday August 11, 2023 John 12:35 “Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you.” Today Jesus would speak in all earnestness to you who have postponed your conversion every time you have been called of God. He would … Continue reading

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Food For Thought 8/11/2023

So Can God Fill Us Standing on the deck of a ship in mid-ocean, you see the sun reflected from its depths. From a little boat on a mountain lake you see the sun reflected from its shallow waters. Looking … Continue reading

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Worship God In Truth – 3

Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 12-13; 18:9-22 2. Worshiping the Lord – Continued Please read Deuteronomy 12:4-14 for the background to this section. One altar for sacrifices (verses 6-7, 12-14). Canaanite worship permitted the people to offer whatever sacrifices they pleased at … Continue reading

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Daily Prayer & Praise 8/10/2023

Lord, hear our prayer: Lord, we praise you for your undiluted purpose for your people, your never ending grace for all humanity; for your triumphant love which was given its fullest demonstration in Christ’s dying and rising for us. We … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 8/10/2023

Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we … Continue reading

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The Sacrament of the Saint

Thursday August 10, 2023 1 Peter 4:19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. To choose to suffer means that there is something … Continue reading

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Food For Thought 8/10/2023

The Third Person Is God Once when Lord Moynihan, great British surgeon, had finished operating before a gallery full of distinguished visiting doctors he was asked how he could work with such a crowd present. He replied: “You see, there … Continue reading

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Worship God In Truth – 2

Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 12-13; 18:9-22 2. Worshiping the Lord Please read Deuteronomy 12:4-14 for the background to this section. “You must not worship the Lord your God in their way” (verse 4, NIV) is a simple statement that carries a … Continue reading

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Daily Prayer & Praise 8/09/2023

Lord, hear our prayer: Father, most holy and precious Lord, we praise you for your free grace which found its echo in Christ’s acceptance of every person who turned to him for forgiveness and healing; for your anger with everything … Continue reading

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Reflecting With God 8/09/2023

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Leviticus 16:21

Wednesday August 9, 2023 Leviticus 16:21 Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, concerning all their sins. As any … Continue reading

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Food For Thought 8/09/2023

So Great Yet So Little One of the most infamous freethinkers of England was a man by the name of Anthony Collins, who died in 1729. He was author of the well-known “Discourse on Freethinking.” This Collins one day met … Continue reading

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Worship God In Truth – 1

Scripture Reference: Deuteronomy 12-13; 18:9-22 Moses was a wise instructor. He devoted the first part of his address (Deuteronomy 1–5) to reviewing the past and helping the new generation appreciate all that God had done for them. Then he told … Continue reading

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