Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer
Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer
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Your Compassions Are Many (Psalm 119:156)
“Your compassions are many, O Lord,” the psalmist says. It’s one of the many statements of the Bible that seem to be grossly understated. NOTE: Stay tuned after the usual sign-off message for information about how you can listen to even more au...
Suspicious Activity in Shinar, Part 2 (Genesis 11:1–3)
The humans after the Flood wanted to settle together in a fertile area and build a permanent settlement with quality building materials. What was wrong with that?Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,...
Self-Invented or God-Invented Salvation? (Psalm 119:155)
How are you saved? What are the works that are pleasing to God? Just as important, do your answers to those questions originate with you or some other human, or with God?Music Credit: Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio from Brandenburg Concerto...
Suspicious Activity in Shinar, Part 1 (Genesis 11:1–2) *with BONUS Content
God had told Noah and his sons and their wives to “throng in the earth and multiply in it” (Gen. 9:7). But we don’t get the impression that humanity wanted to do that, even a century after the Flood. (In the bonus content, we consider possible ...
Take Up My Case! (Psalm 119:154)
It seems pretty bold to ask the holy and almighty God to take up your case, as if he were some nonprofit legal organization seeking justice for the innocent. But in Psalm 119:154, the psalmist encourages us to do so. In this devotion we conside...