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Based on Psalm 27:11, Psalm 119:33-34
Teach us your way, O Lord, and lead us on a level path. Teach us, O Lord, to follow your decrees; then we will keep them to the end. Give us understanding, and we will keep your law and obey it w... -
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The Greatest Imaginable Number of Readings
Jesus Christ was prone to making comments which seem to support an almost infinite variety of exegesis. A remark like ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and ‘unto God the things that are ... -
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Adapted from the Parable of the Sower
Pastor: “Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what wa... -
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O Lord, heavenly Father, in whom is the
O Lord, heavenly Father, in whom is the fullness of light and wisdom, enlighten our minds by your Holy Spirit, and give us grace to receive your Word with reverence and humility, without which no o... -
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Inspired by Deuteronomy 29
Pastor: God our Redeemer, you have saved your people through Jesus Christ, your Son. You have delivered your people out of slavery to sin and have freed us into new life. Yet, we still wander through ... -
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Holy God–Father, Son and Spirit: We
Holy God–Father, Son and Spirit: We come with our agendas in order to enlist you in our causes but You won’t be co-opted for our small visions. Instead, You hold out a greater vision and purpose and i... -
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A Call to Prayer
O Great Spirit, whose breath gives life to the world, and whose voice is heard in the soft breeze; We need your strength and wisdom. Cause us to walk in beauty. Give us the eyes ever to behold the red... -
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God's Word must be so strongly fixed in our minds that it becomes the dominant influence in our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. One of the most effective ways of influencing our minds is... -
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The biblical creation account essentially served as a theological rebuttal of all the other “gods” who never allowed anyone to rest. In a restless world, Yahweh required rest. Again, imagine what kind... -
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God, source of all light, by your Word
God, source of all light, by your Word you give light to the soul. Pour out upon us the spirit of wisdom and understanding that, being taught by you in Holy Scripture, our hearts and minds may be open... -
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The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minut... -
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The Heart in Scripture
The heart is used in Scripture as the most comprehensive term for the authentic person. It is the part of our being where we desire, deliberate, and decide. It has been described as “the place of cons... -
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How we praise and thank You for the
How we praise and thank You for the holy Scriptures which You have caused to be written for our learning. Thank You for Your written Word, which reveals to us the living Word of God, in the Person of ... -
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Cultivating a Spirit of Generosity: A Pastoral Call to Year-End Giving
As a five-year-old at Christmas I remember how excited I was to get my first bike. It was a yellow BMX Huffy, a mean machine for a kid in the late 70s. It is one of my fondest memories because I remem... -
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Virtues and Vices Can Offer Fresh Perspective
Reaching back to the tradition of virtues and vices can also give us fresh eyes and expose new layers of meaning in our reading of scripture. Before I read Aquinas on sloth, I would have associated it... -
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Being Formed in Christ’s Image
In their excellent book Invitation to a Journey, M. Robert Mulholland and Ruth Haley Barton describe the Biblical understanding of the process of spiritual formation over and against the “self-help” p... -
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Christian Faith & Competing Views on Antidepressants
It was a very hot Southern California afternoon in August 2007, but thank the Lord, I was preaching in a nicely air-conditioned church with about one thousand people in attendance. The pastor was gone... -
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Two Wrong-Headed Views of the Body
Christians are often accused of two wrong-headed views of the body. One is that we ignore the body in favor of a disembodied, spirits-floating-on-clouds spirituality. The other is that we are obsessed... -
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Adapted from Psalm 119 (ESV)
Leader: God’s word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. People: God is our hiding place and our shield; let us hope in his word. Leader: Let our cry come before the Lord, that he might g... -
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Transformation Does Not Simply Come from Information
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us. Some churches give people the idea that the only way to transformation is knowledge. There is an ass... -
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. -
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We are people of desire. We want things
We are people of desire. We want things. We long for things. It is primal to our nature to yearn. As Saint Augustine reflected, “The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing. . . . That is o... -
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Dear Lord, I pray that You would open
Dear Lord, I pray that You would open my mind to the truth of Your Word by means of the Holy Spirit. Open my eyes to see Jesus. Open my heart to love Him more and more. Open my will to do only that wh... -
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The word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart, but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind. -
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A Biblical Understanding of Sin
In the New Testament sin is not merely an individual, privatized transgression of a moral standard (sins is typically used for specific transgressions). It is far more radical than that. Sin is a mist... -
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Waiting: Leaning into the Pain
With the global coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020, life stopped. Overwhelmed by the threat of a disease we couldn’t stop and for which we didn’t have the hospital capacity, everyone moved work and s... -
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Attending to God Through His Pain
I (Rich) remember a time while serving as a young pastor at Peace Community Church. At the beginning of my sermon every single Sunday an elderly believer in the church tilted his head to the right and... -
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Draw us close, Holy Spirit, as the
Draw us close, Holy Spirit, as the Scriptures are read and the Word is proclaimed. Let the word of faith be on our lips and in our hearts, and let all other words slip away. May there be one voice we ... -
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We believe, O Lord, that you have not
We believe, O Lord, that you have not abandoned us to the dim light of our own reason to conduct us to happiness, but that you have revealed in Holy Scriptures whatever is necessary for us to believe ... -
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Adapted from Hebrews 4:12-13
Leader: The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the hea...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (23)
- Ps 2 (4)
- Ps 3 (2)
- Ps 4 (6)
- Ps 5 (8)
- Ps 6 (3)
- Ps 7 (1)
- Ps 8 (28)
- Ps 9 (5)
- Ps 10 (4)
- Ps 11 (3)
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- Ps 15 (7)
- Ps 16 (15)
- Ps 18 (11)
- Ps 19 (45)
- Ps 20 (4)
- Ps 22 (13)
- Ps 23 (60)
- Ps 24 (23)
- Ps 25 (22)
- Ps 27 (65)
- Ps 28 (2)
- Ps 29 (5)
- Ps 30 (14)
- Ps 31 (5)
- Ps 32 (33)
- Ps 33 (12)
- Ps 34 (116)
- Ps 35 (1)
- Ps 36 (11)
- Ps 37 (39)
- Ps 38 (3)
- Ps 39 (5)
- Ps 40 (10)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (33)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 45 (2)
- Ps 46 (61)
- Ps 47 (1)
- Ps 48 (1)
- Ps 49 (1)
- Ps 50 (2)
- Ps 51 (102)
- Ps 52 (3)
- Ps 55 (9)
- Ps 56 (6)
- Ps 57 (4)
- Ps 60 (1)
- Ps 61 (3)
- Ps 62 (11)
- Ps 63 (9)
- Ps 65 (8)
- Ps 66 (3)
- Ps 67 (1)
- Ps 68 (3)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 71 (2)
- Ps 72 (5)
- Ps 73 (14)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 75 (1)
- Ps 77 (11)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 79 (1)
- Ps 80 (3)
- Ps 82 (13)
- Ps 84 (5)
- Ps 85 (5)
- Ps 86 (5)
- Ps 88 (4)
- Ps 89 (3)
- Ps 90 (25)
- Ps 91 (8)
- Ps 92 (3)
- Ps 94 (6)
- Ps 95 (7)
- Ps 96 (10)
- Ps 98 (5)
- Ps 100 (9)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 102 (1)
- Ps 103 (61)
- Ps 104 (27)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (1)
- Ps 107 (4)
- Ps 109 (1)
- Ps 111 (1)
- Ps 112 (4)
- Ps 113 (4)
- Ps 115 (7)
- Ps 116 (3)
- Ps 117 (4)
- Ps 118 (11)
- Ps 119 (64)
- Ps 121 (16)
- Ps 122 (4)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 126 (12)
- Ps 127 (12)
- Ps 128 (4)
- Ps 130 (15)
- Ps 131 (4)
- Ps 133 (6)
- Ps 135 (2)
- Ps 136 (13)
- Ps 138 (4)
- Ps 139 (72)
- Ps 141 (3)
- Ps 142 (3)
- Ps 143 (5)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (9)
- Ps 146 (13)
- Ps 147 (41)
- Ps 148 (3)
- Ps 150 (3)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (6)
- Prov 3 (100)
- Prov 4 (24)
- Prov 5 (5)
- Prov 6 (10)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (6)
- Prov 9 (2)
- Prov 10 (9)
- Prov 11 (18)
- Prov 12 (17)
- Prov 13 (8)
- Prov 14 (36)
- Prov 15 (35)
- Prov 16 (38)
- Prov 17 (25)
- Prov 18 (33)
- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (14)
- Prov 21 (17)
- Prov 22 (17)
- Prov 23 (8)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (10)
- Prov 26 (12)
- Prov 27 (21)
- Prov 28 (22)
- Prov 29 (14)
- Prov 30 (2)
- Prov 31 (29)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (54)
- Isa 2 (11)
- Isa 5 (12)
- Isa 6 (28)
- Isa 7 (5)
- Isa 8 (1)
- Isa 9 (29)
- Isa 11 (6)
- Isa 12 (1)
- Isa 14 (3)
- Isa 15 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (20)
- Isa 28 (5)
- Isa 30 (23)
- Isa 32 (1)
- Isa 33 (6)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 40 (102)
- Isa 41 (63)
- Isa 42 (16)
- Isa 43 (64)
- Isa 44 (3)
- Isa 45 (15)
- Isa 46 (3)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (3)
- Isa 49 (8)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (3)
- Isa 52 (5)
- Isa 53 (68)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (81)
- Isa 56 (1)
- Isa 57 (12)
- Isa 58 (35)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (22)
- Isa 61 (52)
- Isa 64 (16)
- Isa 65 (6)
- Isa 66 (14)
- Isa 70 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Haggai
Matthew
- Matt 1 (17)
- Matt 2 (12)
- Matt 3 (9)
- Matt 4 (35)
- Matt 5 (169)
- Matt 6 (145)
- Matt 7 (67)
- Matt 8 (17)
- Matt 9 (18)
- Matt 10 (18)
- Matt 11 (80)
- Matt 12 (17)
- Matt 13 (38)
- Matt 14 (20)
- Matt 15 (14)
- Matt 16 (27)
- Matt 17 (10)
- Matt 18 (41)
- Matt 19 (20)
- Matt 20 (11)
- Matt 21 (15)
- Matt 22 (29)
- Matt 23 (41)
- Matt 24 (8)
- Matt 25 (64)
- Matt 26 (19)
- Matt 27 (10)
- Matt 28 (46)