Category: Summer 2024
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Summer Study – Day 20
Friday, June 27, 2024 Read Psalm 65 Social media often hurts my heart. We often feel free to be unloving and ugly because we are safe behind our anonymous screens. We often reach out to people who are strangers and treat them in a hateful way. However, I frequently fall back on my days in…
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Summer Study – Day 19
Thursday, June 27, 2024 Read Psalm 57 I love retail therapy (shopping). I sometimes wonder if it is a throwback to the instinct of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. It makes us feel good to gather the supplies we need or don’t really need. We find comfort and safety in the things we surround ourselves with. However,…
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Summer Study – Day 18
Wednesday 26, 2024 So, I don’t have a great voice, but today I will sing… “Happy birthday to Jim, happy birthday to Jim, happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to Jim.” There you go! Growing up my family had a tradition to celebrate our birthdays. We would all wake up early before the family member…
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Summer Study – Day 17
We keep saying it again and again, many of the psalms are prayers of the people that come from the deepness the heart and soul. It is coming in nakedness to a God who sees all, and yet desires us to enter into conversation with him. Through this openness we understand that God loves us…
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Summer Study – Day 16
Monday, June 24, 2024 Read Psalm 39 Everything is meaningless! Take a peek at Ecclesiastes and see if you can find similarities between our two linked texts. Here is the profound truth about life being dust, mist, fleeting, and seemingly meaningless…we are called to live each day to the fullest. We are blessed with this…
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Summer Study – Day 15
I love to sing, even though I don’t have a great voice. That is why sometimes I love to sing in the choir. In a group setting, my voice is disguised somewhat and hidden by other beautiful voices. The truth is that I love the psalms that encourage us to praise God. Psalm 33 encourages…
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Summer Study – Day 14
Thursday, June 20, 2024 Read Psalm 27 What battles are you fighting in your life? Some of the things we battle today include but are not limited to the following. These are huge things that we battle. We are reminded in the Psalm that we are surrounded by a great army to help us fight…
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Summer Study – Day 13
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Read Psalm 23 Here are a few notes about my video for today: “Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me.” When our house here in Georgia was our vacation home, I would always talk a good talk about staying…
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Summer Study – Day 12
David was a poet. He wrote many songs and laments which have become part of the prayers lifted by the Jewish and Christian community throughout the centuries. We can see the Holy Sprit’s anointing in David’s life through the psalms he wrote. Psalm 22 is one of those where scholars find many connections made to…
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Summer Study – Day 11
Monday, June 17, 2024 Read Psalm 19 I love nature. It’s one of the reasons we chose to make our home in Southwest Georgia. The way God’s handiwork is woven into nature never fails to amaze me. Today’s psalm was a beautiful reminder of how God communicates with us through the sheer splendor of nature. …