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In my personal daily times of Scripture reading and prayer, I have recently been meditating on Psalm 119. Psalm 119 is by far the longest of the psalms with a total of 176 verses. This psalm is an extended reflection on the delight and power of God's word, structured as an acrostic poem with one …
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Maybe we have not thought much about Satan, either in glib self-regard, or in rejection of such silly speculation, or in a way more urbane and benign than to imagine such a character. Except that as we begin our strenuous Lenten trek, we are aware that the power of resistance is at work in our …
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Throughout our series, "Great Prayers of the Bible," we looked at passages of Scripture in which prayer is the central activity. Along with study of those specific Bible passages, I turned to the wisdom of many authors far more brilliant than me and from many different eras for help. At times people ask me whether …
This past weekend in my message, "New Life," which launched our new series "Exiles: A Study of 1 Peter," I mentioned the work of Walter Brueggemann on how we respond to the situation of exile. While I did my best to summarize what he wrote, I'm posting his full outline of the three responses to …
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Matthew Erickson 