God’s Hidden Arrangement

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I spent this past weekend assembling a detailed 3D book-nook puzzle, one of those miniature architectural scenes made of dozens upon dozens of tiny wooden pieces. Each piece had been precisely cut with notches so small they were nearly invisible, yet every one fit only in a single location. The instructions required an exact order. […]

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A Christ Centered Christmas

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Each year, “Merry Christmas” is spoken more cautiously, if it is spoken at all. In its place, “Happy Holidays” has become the safer greeting, offered under the banner of politeness, neutrality, and inclusiveness. Just last week, after wishing a gentleman “Merry Christmas” over the phone, he replied with a carefully neutral “Happy Holidays.” These exchanges […]

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Sanctified Journaling

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“Record all special favors, mercies, providences, and experiences.Little do you know the advantages that will redound to your souls upon this.” – Thomas Brooks, Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks I began journaling as a teenager, long before I knew Christ. What began as a class assignment soon became a nightly ritual. I would open my […]

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Cultivating Reverence for the Holiness of God

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Reverence does not grow in the heart by accident. Scripture never treats it as a passing feeling or a heightened emotion that comes and goes with the seasons of the soul. Reverence is the posture formed when the heart sees God as He truly is, and bows beneath the weight of that truth with joy […]

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Psalms 84 Pilgrimaging to God’s House


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This week’s Psalm 84 is about how good it is to go to the house of God. When I was a child, one of my favorite songs to sing was an old hymn my mother use to sing with me. The neat thing about hymns is there are always so many versions of them out […]

06/09/2015

Home! by Horatius Bonar


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Afflictions are preparing for us a “more abundant entrance,” a weightier crown, a whiter robe, a sweeter rest, a home made doubly precious by a long exile and many sufferings here below. However desperate our earthly warfare may be, it is not forever. No, it is brief, very brief. Its end is near, very near. […]

06/07/2015

Psalms 46 Our Storm Shelter


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“We sing this Psalm to the praise of God, because God is with us, and powerfully and miraculously preserves and defends his church and his word, against all fanatical spirits, against the gates of hell, against the implacable hatred of the devil, and against all the assaults of the world, the flesh and sin.” – […]

05/26/2015

Psalms 40 Pitstops


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Which would you rather have, a smooth path or a path so rough that the Lord is compelled to show His face to you every step of the way?” – George V. Wigner Last week Penny had mentioned that we should study the Psalm that corresponds with our age. It was a fun statement because […]

05/12/2015

Psalm 32 The Proper Disposal of Sin


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There are some things you just can’t throw away in the garbage. They have to be disposed of properly because they contain hazardous materials such as chemicals that harm the environment when buried. Aerosol containers, paint thinners, old paint cans, chemical bottles, medications, batteries. These are things we can’t just throw in the garbage. They […]

04/28/2015

Psalm 23 The Lord is My Shepherd


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Psalm 23 is so beloved and familiar that you probably don’t even need to open our Bibles to it in order to study it because you know it by heart. It is a popular reading at funerals, during crisis and in times of depression. When we started the book of Psalms, we talked about how […]

04/14/2015