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Psalm 119 Ryan: How cool is it that the longest chapter in the entire Bible is all about how wonderful is the word of God? If you search Psalm 119 in the King James Version for “Thy Word,” you’ll learn that the phrase occurs 39 times, or in approximately 22% of all the 176 verses [...]
Continue reading about Day 123: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet”
Psalm 103-104, Psalm 113-114, Psalm 117 Ryan: Today marks an important event in the year-long daily Bible blogging experiment: the first YouTube video from the movie Godspell. If you were living under a rock in the 1970′s (or weren’t born yet) and have not yet heard/watched Godspell, you owe it to yourself and to your children and [...]
Psalm 29, Psalm 33, Psalm 65-68 Ryan: Since all of us today have grown up in the modern era where most, if not all, “nations” on the earth are technically “states,” it’s very easy for us to get confused while reading the nationalistic parts of the Old Testament. Generally, a nation is defined by culture [...]
Continue reading about Day 120: “Sing the glory of his name”
Psalm 76, Psalm 82, Psalm 84, Psalm 90, Psalm 92, Psalm 112, Psalm 115 Ryan: Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Gimli (Lord of the Rings) said, “I have looked last upon that which is fairest. Henceforth I will call nothing fair unless [...]
Continue reading about Day 118: “Better is one day in your courts”
Psalm 70-71, Psalm 77, Psalm 83, Psalm 86 Ryan: Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus, “through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence” (Ephesians 3:12). I take that to mean, in one sense, that with the greater faith that we have, the more confidence we can approach God in our [...]
Psalm 35, Psalm 41, Psalm 43, Psalm 46, Psalm 55 Ryan: When I attended the Presbyterian church when I was younger, they had a big colorful banner that hung from the ceiling that read, “Be still, and know that I am God.” I used to stare at that banner during the sermons (instead of listening), [...]
Continue reading about Day 111: Be still and know that I am God
Psalm 5-7, Psalm 10-11 Ryan: In reading the psalms in which David prays for deliverance from enemies and deliverance from oppression, I couldn’t help but draw comparisons to some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches. In particular, from Psalm 6:3-4, “How long, O LORD, how long? Turn, O LORD, and deliver me.” A deep study [...]
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