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March 30, 2011

God’s Intent for You and Me

I know it’s not Music Monday, but since music is awesome any day, I wanted to share something music related with you all today. Tonight one of my favorite bands — Revive — is playing in Walla Walla, Washington, and tomorrow night they will be in Tacoma,...

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March 30, 2011

The Footprints of the Lord

I seldom simply copy and paste things for a blog post, but a good friend of mine emailed this to me and I thought it was too good not to share. Most people have heard the “Footprints” story about seeing two sets of footprints in...

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March 29, 2011

Thanks, John, for the Assurance

My favorite of all the apostles is John, “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” I love his Gospel, the three epistles that he wrote, and Revelation. One of our scripture readings in church on Sunday was from 1 John 4:7-21. There are a couple of things I...

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March 28, 2011

Writer’s Block

I tried all weekend to come up with an idea for Music Monday, and nothing. I seem to have writer’s block. I had some ideas of things to write but nothing music related. I’ve been listening to my Christian playlist on my iPod all weekend,...

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March 27, 2011

Psalm 41 – Blessing and Betrayal

This is another Psalm that covers a lot of ground. It starts by noting the blessing of those who care for the poor and how God cares for those He loves. It moves on to a prayer for mercy. Then hidden in the middle is...

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March 26, 2011

Understanding Vindictiveness in the Psalms and Real Life

I’ve been reading (slowly) Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis. It is going slowly in part because, having read through chapter 4, I was compelled to go back and reread chapter 3. The title of chapter 3 is “The Cursings.” As is typical with Lewis,...

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March 24, 2011

Prophecy – A Poem

In pondering what to write for my Thankful Thursday poem, I couldn’t think of a synonym for thankful that I wanted to write about (not even using my online Thesaurus). So I decided instead to write about something I am thankful for. The thing that...

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March 23, 2011

Complete Love Binds Us in Unity

Last Sunday we had a guest speaker at church who gave a wonderful sermon. He is a seminary student, and like his father who is a pastor, his sermon style is more what I would call teaching than preaching. The lesson he shared on Sunday...

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March 22, 2011

A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Each morning I begin my prayers, “Heavenly Father, I praise You and worship You. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. You are merciful and loving; You are Holy and Just.” Then I think, almost without fail, that those words...

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March 21, 2011

Music Monday Extra – Nothing but the Blood

This is another hymn, written by Robert Lowry, recorded by Jars of Clay for their Redemption Songs CD. I thought it was an appropriate Music Monday Extra because it ties in with my post from this morning. It is a reminder that the sin of...

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