Borrowed Breath

Psalm 130 (ESV)
A Song of Ascents.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
   to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 
If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
   O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
    that you may be feared.
I wait for the LORD, my […]

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My soul sings out
When my tongue is tied,
Whispers and shouts
Lie buried inside.
When I don’t know
What I should say,
The Spirit bestows
Prayers I can’t pray.
My soul sings out
When my tongue is tied,
Whispers and shouts
Lie buried inside.
Often I kneel in silence,
Amidst the warfare’s violence;
My soul is pained and weary,
My eyes, bloodshot and bleary,
And I yearn for your cheering presence.
But when […]

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Well, we’re back from a WONDERFUL weekend.  Friday evening we headed to Bird-in-Hand, PA to the annual H*VMI retreat.  It was a refreshing time full of testimonies and intercessory prayer and worship and good Bible teaching.
My favorite part of the weekend was the testimonies.  Various missionaries got up and told, with tears and laughter, of […]

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This afternoon, Michelle and I will be heading out to Lancaster for the annual H*VMI retreat.  It will be a wonderful time of renewal, refreshment and good fellowship, as well as learning from God’s Word and interceding for each other.
I’ll talk to you again on Monday.
Shalom

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Michelle recently pointed out that I say “literally” a lot.  I thought she was exaggerating.  But since she alerted me of that repetitive portion of my otherwise verbose vocabulary, I’ve noticed that I do indeed literally use the word literally all the time.  I will catch myself making a point, and throwing in the this […]

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“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.”
(Leviticus 25:35 ESV)
 
This verse points out an amazing inconsistency the LORD saw in the nation of Israel.  He commands them to treat a poverty-stricken brother […]

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Here is a link we should read twice:
The Worst Heresy Imaginable by our brother Greg Boyd.
Shalom

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Last night, at our church body’s weekly celebration, we had three baptisms.  I always love hearing the testimonies of men and women who are not public speakers, but who’s lives have been dramatically transformed by the love of Christ, and who want to make a public confession of their faith and be identified with His death, […]

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Take me back to Golgotha’s hill,
That sacred place, where lingers still
            A sense of what you’ve done for me.
Remind me how your love poured down,
As your very life-blood hit the ground,
            Take me back to Calvary.
 
Here love and pain blend together
Bound as one by grace’s tether,
            I am in awe of what you’ve done.
Your clothes […]

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While reading through Leviticus last night, I came across an interesting verse.  “You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God:  I am the LORD”  (Leviticus 19:14 ESV).
 
At first, this looks like a semi-trivial law regarding actually speaking ill of someone who cannot hear […]

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