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“…a deliberate redirection of one’s emotions…”

Early Sunday morning I awoke anxious and angry. Added to that was frustration that on my one morning to sleep in a little, I was awake, tossing and turning. I finally got up, made tea, and got back in...

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“The person of faith does not escape from reality but into reality.”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots; you hold them safe under your shelter from contentious tongues. ~ Psalm 31:20 The...

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“Help me to make the connection…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us to a spacious place. Psalm 66:12 Every testing is...

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“…in the context of a disastrously broken world…”

Paul Tripp on the Psalms, in A Quest for More: In the Psalms, the life of faith isn’t idyllic, pretty, or easy. It is a walk with God marked by anguish, dread, and grief. The Psalms picture a life...

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“…it is God who is the aggressor.”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: Let God rise up, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him. Psalm 68:1 This rich (and sometimes enigmatic) psalm is a...

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“…a particular fondness for the book of Psalms…”

From The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great by Benjamin Merkle: As a youth, Alfred had been naturally inclined toward book learning. In particular, the poetry of the Anglo-Saxon tongue,...

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“God’s people have a history…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that...

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“God’s people are not fragile flowers…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand planted. ~ Psalm 80:14-15 God’s...

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miscellany

Once again, a collection of all manner of things I’ve noticed here and there around the web: ~ Why are Christians such bad tippers? Come on, fellow believers! We can do better. ~ A timely devotion from...

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“But if we have our eyes open…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep! ~ Psalm 92:5 There is a kind of dullness that is oblivious to both sure causes and...

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“In the psalms…”

From Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition: In the psalms, if you look carefully, you will find an intimacy of prayer such as you could never discover by yourself. In...

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“I give thanks to you, O Lord my God…”

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“Significantly, there are no “nature psalms” in the Bible…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty… you make the winds your messengers, fire and...

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“When we forget God’s ways of providing for us…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. ~ Psalm 106:13 Forgetfulness (v. 13) and insurrection (v. 16) are often found...

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“I have experienced your goodness and know it is working in me…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, those he redeemed from trouble… ~ Psalm 107:2 The redeemed are summoned from the four quarters of the compass to...

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“…not from our good feelings, but from God’s good acts.”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever. ~ Psalm 111:10 Do we...

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“We do not make God; he makes us.”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: O Israel, trust the in LORD! He is their help and their shield. ~ Psalm 115:9 We do not make God; he makes us. We do not take care of him; he takes...

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“I need courage to face all the skirmishes of daily living…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me. ~ Psalm 118:13 Prayer does not produce “weak resignation to the evils we deplore”...

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“The only adequate human response is the ‘whole heart’…”

From Eugene H. Peterson’s Praying With the Psalms: Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole heart. ~ Psalm 119:2 The law of God is not regulations to keep us religious, and...

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