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Psalm 15: Who May Go and Stay?
Psalm 15 is hard news. It may come across as a such high standard of righteousness that its promises to be with God are unattainable and beyond hope of reaching. We read it, and move on rather than letting it do its work in us in prayer. So here are…
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Psalm 14: Ordinary Prayer
This is a paraphrase of Psalm 14 which you may read HERE. In the inmost place of who they are, They say, “There is no God.” Not because they doubt, But they imagine unthinkable things, And do what no good person would think to do. From the heights the Lord looks…
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Psalm 13 an Ordinary Prayer
This is the next installment in my psalms paraphrase project titled, Ordinary Prayer. In Psalm 13, which you may read HERE, David tells a story of personal struggle in which begins with his admission of his experience. It moves on to his cry to the Lord, and it concludes with his…
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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 12
The psalms are ordinary prayers. They were composed by kings and prophets and sung by shepherds and fisherman. They were good for singing in the Temple, and they were good for the Galilean countryside. These are the words and word pictures of God’s people who themselves, like us, fought the…
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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 11
I am continuing a project of paraphrasing the Psalms. Psalm 11 speaks of the experience of one in trouble. Given the option of fleeing to the mountains or fleeing to the Lord, he asks as Peter asks of Jesus, “Where else shall we go?” This is the meaning of “If…
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