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One of my favorite times each day is helping my six year old son wake up in the morning. I have learned he has to ease into the morning or look out everybody! Can I get a witness? I typically climb up the ladder to his loft bed and crawl into the bed and the…
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Jesus is the central figure of Scripture. He is the hero. Sometimes people make themselves the hero and steal the glory from Jesus. We tell the stories like that of David and Goliath and say we are the David’s that defeat Goliath’s like sin, addictions, and hurts. But it is Jesus alone, not us, that…
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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…
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Psalm 19 has to be one of my top five favorite of the Psalms. It’s one I find myself quoting a lot. How many times have I thought or said, “The heavens declare the glory of the Lord” (v. 1), “The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul” (v. 7), and “May the…
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“Son, back in my day…” That’s a phrase I heard my dad tell me often in various ways at the beginning of what I thought at the time were boring old person stories. Now that I’ve said phrases like those to my kids hundreds of times, those stories don’t seem so boring or like the…
stephen R Harrison 