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Next Step of Love

Adolfo Melendez, owner of El Mezcal restaurant in Wisconsin, became a symbol of generosity and neighborly compassion when he sacrificially helped other restaurants that were struggling during the global pandemic. Today’s devotional was written to encourage us to take the next step of love and care for someone in a

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Psalm 142

  In verse 7b David gives his vow of praise — a distinctive of this type of Psalm.  In distress he trusts God for release;

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Song

Psalm 139

“Psalm 139” performed by Sarah Reeves off her album Broken Things. The song is a reading of Psalm 139 with the chorus, “Even when I’m

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Song

Psalm 136

The following song, Loof de Heer or “Praise the Lord,” is from The Psalm Project — a group from the Netherlands dedicated to modernizing the

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Quotes

Psalm 133

In The Message, Eugene Peterson translates the opening verse of Psalm 133: How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It can be

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Song

Psalm 130

The following song, “From the Depths of Woe” by Indelible Grace, uses the words of Martin Luther’s “Aus Tiefer Not Schrei ich zu Dir” (From

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Song

Psalm 126

Earlier this summer, we heard Buddy Greene perform his unique Southern-style gospel music at Maranatha.  While I enjoyed the variety of music he played, I

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Song

Psalm 119

With 176 verses, Psalm 119 is both the longest Psalm and the longest chapter in the Bible.  The Psalm is also an alphabetic acrostic poem.

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Song

Psalm 117

Psalm 117 is the shortest psalm in the bible — just two verses.  But the Psalmist reminds us in just two verses to praise God

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Quotes

Bono on the Psalms

In an interview that aired on June 25 on the Focus on the Family radio program, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly spoke with

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Summer of Psalms

Psalm 113

The Message, a paraphrase translation of the Bible, translates Psalm 113: Hallelujah! You who serve GOD, praise GOD! Just to speak his name is praise!

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Books

Glittering Vices

If you have additional questions from the sermon this morning about identifying the root of sin in your life, consider reading Glittering Vices: A New

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Quotes

Confession

In the service this morning, we talked about the importance of honestly identifying sin in our lives and hating the sin.  But, God doesn’t leave

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Song

Psalm 108

Michael W. Smith’s song, “Forever Faithful” begins with beautiful sound of children’s voices reciting the first five verses of Psalm 108.

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Quotes

Psalm 101

In his commentary on the Psalms, Dr. Herbert Lockyer writes: The Psalm before us teaches us that we never praise the Lord better than when

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Psalm 97

In a section on the theological implications of Psalm 97, Old Testament scholar John Goldingay writes: Yhwh reigns.  Therefore Pharaoh or Sennacherib or Nebuchadnezzar or

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Summer of Psalms

Psalm 95

This Sunday Jim is preaching on Psalm 84, which was part of our Summer of Psalms readings for last week.  Psalm 95 has a similar

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