Book Review: Lifelong Zeal

Lifelong Zeal: How to Build Lasting Passion for God is a new workbook by Phillip Shumake. In it, he shows how we can develop the type of zeal that God wants us to have by taking us through the seven step process that Christ used to develop this sort of zeal in the life of […]

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Do Not Be As the Mule Which Has No Understanding (5/14)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Psalm 32, 51, 86, 122. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to […]

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Uriah the Hittite (5/13)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from 2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Chronicles 20. We remember the story of David and Bathsheba. The pregnancy that resulted from their affair led David to arrange to have her husband killed. There are many lessons to be learned from David’s sin, but I want us to remember at least one […]

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God Visits the Earth and Causes It to Overflow (5/12)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Psalm 65-67, 69-70. In this psalm of praise, David mentions God’s providence as one of the reasons why He is to be honored. “You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; the stream of God is full of water; You prepare their grain, for […]

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What Not to Do After Hurting Someone (5/11)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from 2 Samuel 10; 1 Chronicles 17; Psalm 20. When the king of the Ammonites died, David sent some of his servants to Hanun, the son and successor of the deceased king, in order to comfort him and show him kindness. However, Hanun was convinced by his princes that David’s […]

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"What Right Have You to Tell of My Statutes?" (5/10)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Psalm 50, 53, 60, 75. It is natural to feel a sense of indignation when we hear one who has rejected God attempt to explain the Scriptures to us. This feeling should not be surprising, for even God has this reaction to the attempts of the wicked who claim […]

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Why Would Mephibosheth Fear? (5/9)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from 2 Samuel 8-9; 1 Chronicles 18. When David determined to find who remained from the house of Saul so that he could show kindness to him, he was told of Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth, one whose feet were crippled (2 Samuel 9:3). When David found out about him, he had […]

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