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Saints Day
As Fall has come, and as we move to All Saints/All Souls Days, I have been thinking about church members and friends who have died. One such date came yesterday. My wife and I spruced up a flower bed in which a plaque had been placed and in whose honor…
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The Incense
This sonnet is based on Isaiah 6:1-8, and is part of a new series on Isaiah titled, Full of His Glory. I have always been brought up a bit short by the coal touching Isaiah’s lips and his subsequent eagerness to be sent. I can’t get over how painful I…
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Doesn’t Look Like Much
This past Sunday was the first time the church had physically gathered for worship and the Lord’s Supper. It was a morning of expectation, and I sensed deep appreciation among those gathered for the opportunity, and our worship was full of gratitude. Yet, there was a tinge of sadness. Our…
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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 20
Psalms 20 and 21 are prayers for the king. It strikes me that they are connected in thought with David’s Psalm 18 in which he recounts and praises God for God’s deliverance from Saul. Here is a paraphrase of Psalm 20. In it I was taken with the line in…
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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 19
The psalms are not the high-culture language of a life lived looking down on others. They are the down to earth lyrics of God’s people. The Psalms are words penned by some of them most famous Old Testament saints, and they have worked their way into the hearts of the…
Backward Mutters 