January 2020
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I’ve done some pretty dumb things in my lifetime. I’d like to say, “Hasn’t everybody,” just to make me feel better. Once, I was considering getting a new wedding ring, but my old one wouldn’t come off. Now I had not planned to take it off in that particular moment, but since I was already
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Most of the commentaries I have read on Psalm 21 stated the victories it was praising God for were those prayed for by David in Psalm 20. One of the great things about keeping a prayer journal is having the ability to go back and rejoice when God answers prayers! Psalm 20 is the prayer
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Once while shopping with my wife, I waited in the car while she went in to return an item. While waiting, I noticed a married guy from my church pull up on his motorcycle. As he sat on his bike, he intently watched three young women walk in the store at different times. The last
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Men, there are four enemies “crouching at your door, desiring to have you, but you must rule over them” (Genesis 4:7). In Proverbs 6, Solomon warns us of using money foolishly (vv. 1-5), laziness (vv. 6-11), bad character (vv. 12-19), and lust (vv. 20-35). These four enemies can obliterate everything God has built in a
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Psalm 20 is considered a royal psalm as deals with a king (v. 6, 9). It is also a psalm of prayer before David and Israel entered battle. David fought the Lord’s battles, as he did with Goliath (1 Samuel 17:47). It was common for kings to pray before battle, just as Jehoshaphat did in
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A Proverbs 5 man knows God created sex for procreation and pleasure to be inside the boundaries of marriage for one man and one woman for a lifetime. Anything outside of God’s design for sex is sin and a godly man realizes that sexual sin will destroy and disappoint. God isn’t trying to deprive sexual
stephen R Harrison 