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Have you ever prayed for guidance? This is Psalm 25. Here we see David approaching God with the familiar deliverance theme of his previous and future psalms. David is praying for God to deliver him from his enemies, but he fully understands he has also been his own worst enemy, asking God to deliver and…
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God is the creator (vv. 1-2), holy (vv. 3-6), and glorious (vv. 7-10)! That is the heart of Psalm 24. It conveys that God had first say as Creator, the overall say as the Perfect One, and the final say as the Lord Almighty! He doesn’t just exist as the Creator of everything, but is…
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Trusting the Lord can seem impossible in difficult times…but isn’t that when trust is needed and tested? No one thinks about trust except when you need to trust! In six verses of the most famous Psalm, King David expresses his confidence in the Shepherd of his soul to provide and deliver him as the context…
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Have you ever been in anguish one moment and joy the next? That’s just the setting of Psalm 22. Verses 1-21 are a lament and verses 22-31 are thanksgiving from David. The Psalm begins with the verse Jesus quoted on the cross, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”. While it begins in…
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There is a love that is bigger than flowers, chocolate, teddy bears, and balloons. The day Jesus went to the cross reminds us love is bigger than February 14th. Love is not a feeling; it is a choice. Feelings will sometimes lie to us. Emotions can confuse us. Love is expressed by actions and grounded…
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Who’s glad 2020 is almost behind us? I’m not sure what 2021 will bring, but hopefully it will not include the apocalyptic adventures of the previous year. If 2021 were a movie, wouldn’t you like to see the movie trailer? One of my favorite scriptures is Revelation 21:5. It says, “He who was seated on…
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Thomas Aquinas said, “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” I’ve got a couple close friends who have been there for me through the ups and downs of life. These friends were there at my wedding, the birth of my kids, the death of my mom and sister, when…
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I’ll never forget coming home from the hospital with our firstborn. Kylee was (and still is) perfect and beautiful! After our family and friends had all gone home, my wife Haley and I looked at each other with our new baby and for the first time felt the weight of parenting. We were responsible for…
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Christmas seemed so far away, but it is tomorrow! If you’re not careful, all you could be left with this Christmas is a lot of shredded wrapping paper, a wrecked house from all those Christmas parties, and credit cards that need to be paid off. After December 25th you can be left asking yourself, “Where…
stephen R Harrison 