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December 11, 2011

Psalm 75 – Remembering Who Deserves Thanks

Between Zechariah and Esther my Bible-in-a-year schedule has a few days of Psalms to read. I am very happy about this because I love the Psalms. On my schedule yesterday were Psalms 74, 75, and 76. I decided to post Psalm 75 for today. It...

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November 29, 2011

Good Advice Not Followed – My Tuesday Three

A quote from Alice in Wonderland came to mind yesterday, and I couldn’t get it out of my head. I decided to check the accuracy of my quote, and discovered that the way I remembered it must have been from a cartoon or movie. Here...

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November 19, 2011

Christ is King

In the calendar of the liturgical churches, which includes the Lutheran church, tomorrow is Christ the King Sunday. It is the last Sunday of the seasonal church calendar, so that the “year” starts with the first Sunday in Advent. (More on Advent next week). In...

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October 13, 2011

Compassion Is – A Poem

This week the word compassion has been on my mind a lot. My own struggles in life have taught me to be compassionate towards others and I believe it is an excellent characteristic to foster in our children. Dictionary.com defines the word compassion as “a...

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September 29, 2011

Eternal Life – A Poem

1/5/13 update: I decided to link to this poem from the prompt today at dVerse Poets Pub. Check it out for more poems on peace. So often we speak of eternal life as something that we get after we die. But that is not what...

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September 1, 2011

The Word of God – A Poem

This poem is a tribute to the Word of God, which I am so thankful for. I love to be able to read His Word! I pray for those who desire to read the Bible but don’t have access to it. It is inconceivable that...

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August 29, 2011

Haunted by His Mercy

I mentioned a couple of times last week that I went to Fish Fest with my friend A and saw Third Day, my favorite Christian band. When we arrived at the concert, the band Above the Golden State was playing. I had never heard of...

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June 12, 2011

Psalm 25 – Of Mercy and Humility

Since I’ve been thinking a lot about mercy and humility lately, I decided to do a Biblegateway search for a Psalm about this topic to post today. Not surprisingly, my search for “humble” in the Psalms returned a number of verses. I settled on Psalm 25...

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June 9, 2011

Mercy – A Poem

Thankfulness and gratitude are easy when things are going great. But what about when life seems overwhelming and nothing goes as planned? What about the difficult days when you can’t seem to do the right thing, or have the right attitude, or pray the right...

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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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