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Look for God's hidden blessings
Christian Living, Encouragement, Psalms

God’s Hidden Blessings

Our twenty-one-year-old Green Machine (aka Honda Accord) won’t pass the next California smog test, so we’re car shopping. (We save oodles of money by driving a car till it or Sacramento calls it quits. Since I don’t commute, that can take…
August 25, 2015
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Royal psalms tell us how God intends to destroy evil
Encouragement, Bible Study, Psalms

What’s So Good about Royal Psalms?

What is a royal psalm anyway? And why should we care? Just as today we hear many types of songs—love songs, anthems, lullabies, ballads, odes, rap and more—so the ancient Hebrews heard many types of psalms—royal psalms, wisdom songs,…
July 16, 2015
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Psalm 2:1-3 The root of injustice
Encouragement, Psalms, Spiritual Practices

Psalm 2: Hope in the Midst of Injustice

Terrorists murder and maim. Con artists bilk the elderly. The rich exploit the poor. Abusers scar children. The promiscuous mock the chaste. Liars lock the innocent behind bars. Those who’ve sworn to uphold justice overturn it. What is our…
July 1, 2015
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Illuminated "L" in Genesis Bible
Psalms, Spiritual Practices

Art as Worship

Whether you consider yourself to be artistic or not, you can worship God through art. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, for God sees the heart: “For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according…
June 18, 2015
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Understanding Psalms 71
Bible Perplexities, Psalms, Spiritual Practices

How to Understand Psalms

I used to dislike the Book of Psalms because the psalms kept repeating themselves instead of proceeding point-by-point to a nice conclusion in the first line of the last stanza. After all, essays put the main point in the first sentence of the…
June 8, 2015
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Every cover-up to be revealed at the Judgment
Encouragement

Every Cover-up to be Revealed—It’s a Promise

On Saturday, April 4, 2015, white police officer Michael Slager shot and killed an unarmed black man, Walter Scott. Officer Slager claimed Scott had grabbed his Taser and he had shot in self-defense. The story may have ended there except for…
May 21, 2015
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Childlessness is a journey
Encouragement

The Journey of Childlessness

By Jean E. Jones The pain of multiple miscarriages changed my perspective about God and faith. April 2010 | Today's Christian Woman My gynecologist's certainty gave me confidence: In a booming voice, incongruously deep for his small stature,…
May 4, 2015
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Linked mental pictures help you memorize psalms
Encouragement, Psalms, Spiritual Practices

Seven Tips & Tricks to Memorize Psalms

By Jean E. Jones @JeanEstherJones Did my last post, Why Memorize Psalms? 10 Good Reasons, leave you wondering just how anyone would go about memorizing psalms? Now, I know people who can read a long passage a few times and it’s memorized.…
April 22, 2015
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Memorize Psalms
Encouragement, Psalms, Spiritual Practices

Why Memorize Psalms? 10 Good Reasons

When I first read Gorden Wenham’s careful and convincing chapter in Psalms as Torah [ref]Gorden Wenham, Psalms as Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically (Studies in Theological Interpretation) (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012), 41-56. [/ref] that…
April 15, 2015
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