Posts from October 2026 (Page 2)
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Psalm 23… “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters;” vss. 1-2 While the scribes who gathered the psalms and placed them in various collections believed that this was a psalm of David, it was obviously written from the viewpoint of a sheep. And reading it from that perspective brings particular delight as we imagine ourselves being totally devoted to a shepherd we trust to…
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Isaiah 25:6-9..“And he will destroy on this mountain the shroud that is cast over all peoples, the sheet that is spread over all nations; he will swallow up death for ever.” vss. 7-8a Often we think that our hope for the victory of life over death comes from our New Testament scriptures, i.e. the good news of resurrection found in the gospels and epistles. But actually we see that message of hope clearly stated in the teachings of Isaiah and…
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Isaiah 25:1-5..“For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, a shelter from the rainstorm and a shade from the heat.” vs. 4 Isaiah became a prophet through a call that he had received in the course of a remarkable temple vision. It had been a shocking experience and he said “yes” to the Lord before they had become acquainted. But as the years passed and their relationship deepened, Isaiah came to…
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Philippians 3:8-14..“Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.” vss. 13-14 Paul knew that no matter how much he had accomplished, he wasn’t yet what he one day would be. It wasn’t that he lacked perfection and somehow had to clean…
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Philippians 3:4b-11..“Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.” vs. 7 Paul had impressive credentials. Not only was he a proud member of the tribe of Benjamin, he had the best education possible for an up and coming religious leader. He was a member of the Pharisees, the strictest branch of Judaism, and he’d made a name for himself by hunting down and terrorizing Christians. His zeal was unmatched! But a chance…
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