Fleeting Days, and Full
“Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you.Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem…
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Ever a New (Loud) Song
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to…
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Against All gods
“Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations… And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more.., and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected…
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Taking the Long View
“When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down with her face to the ground… ‘My lord..; hear what your servant has to say. Please pay no attention to that wicked Nabal… His name means Fool, and…
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Wise, Gracious, Seasoned: A Recipe
“Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. “Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a…
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Ear to Mouth
“The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.The Lord God has opened my ear, and I…
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To Combat, with Song!
“The Moabites and Ammonites and Meunites came against Jehoshaphat for battle… Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the Lord… Judah assembled to seek help from the Lord… “Jehoshaphat… said [to the assembly], ‘O Lord, are you not God in heaven? You rule…
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A Psalm as a Mantra
“Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires…
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Spirit Secrets
“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and…
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No Room for Strutting
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “’I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning…
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