Category: Summer Study 2020
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Standing Through it All
Book Four, here we come! Psalm 90 starts this fourth book and praise be, book four is mostly a book of praise! However, there are two prayers for help in book four and Psalm 90 just happens to be one of those. Not to mention that to get to Psalm 90 you will need to read the quite…
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All Together Now
When I went to Israel earlier this year many people in my family and friend groups were nervous for me to go. They were afraid because of the violence that has torn the country apart, the terrible story of the Palestinians and Israelis. I was not worried at all, I knew that the tour group would keep…
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Longing for the Presence of the Almighty
I hope you are having fun spending these days reading through Psalms. When I read the psalms I find that some grab me more than others. Usually I attribute the ones that don’t grab me to the fact that I am missing something because of translation or simply that I don’t understand what the psalmist’s…
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And God Says
Well, Psalm 81 brings us to something interesting, it brings us to God’s side of the story. For 80 psalms now we have pretty much been hearing the praise, thanksgiving and a lot of complaining of the people and now we hear what go has to say about all of this. When I was a teenager…
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Lack of Sleep
Do you ever have trouble sleeping? I do. I can’t fall asleep sometimes and so I’ll read, I’ll walk around, I’ll watch T.V. and finally I’ll go back to bed. It is a family curse. It happened to my mom and it happens to my children. Normally, I can’t sleep because I have things running…
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Doubt
Psalm 73 finds us at the start of Book Three of the Psalter. We are moving right along. However, I am sad to say that as we move along we are not, at least yet, moving on to happier psalms. You will find a change of focus though, you should notice, that the prayer are tending to focus…
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Waiting
Today you are going to read Psalm 70, when you finish it and before you read, 71 and 72, you might just want to go back and read Psalm 40. If you read Psalm 40 pay special attention to verses 13- 17. You will find they are nearly identical to Psalm 70. What’s up with that? Well, you are…
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The Lord’s Blessings…
If you have been around me for a while you will know that I am not a detail person. That is simply not how God created me. I tend to look at things from 20,000 feet––the big picture. This is especially true of how I read the Word. When I read Scripture, I look for…
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A Psalm in Three Acts
I really enjoyed taking a deeper dive into Psalm 65 and I am adding it to my short list of my favorite psalms. I just thinks it paints and ever expanding, ever growing, more and more beautiful picture of our God and how our God provides everything we need. In the first act we see God providing…
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Safety
You might not know it, but I have a famous relative!! You can even google him, Froylan Turcios. He was a writer and a poet. My grandfather’s brother. A few years ago I found out that my own grandfather wrote many poems, which my mom gave to me and I have in my possession. Last weekend…