Tag: purpose

• The Insomnia Psalm

  16Yours is the day, yours also the night;you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.–Psalm 74 Asaph followed his masterful Psalm 73 with another great one. Here, the nation was facing a scoffing enemy, and Asaph was calling on God to take care of business. Towards the end of the psalm, Asaph turned into…

  bradshawjoel

  May 25, 2022

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• Dry and Weary

  1O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;my soul thirsts for you;my flesh faints for you,as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.–Psalm 63 I remember the most thirsty I have every been. It was during football practice ‘hell week’ in the hot August sun. We were in full…

  bradshawjoel

  May 17, 2022

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• Two Basic Things

  23The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”–Psalm 50 This was an angry psalm of rebuke. And God landed the plane with a little bit of hope and direction. We who study the Bible cling to those things. Here are…

  bradshawjoel

  May 10, 2022

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