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Fortress
Psalm 8:2 (1-20-11) You have taught children and infantsto tell of your strength,silencing your enemiesand all who oppose you. Worship as fortress. The imagery is strong. Mighty soldiers attacking a position, the foe and the avenger. But they are thwarted. Not with mightier soldiers or stronger warriors. But with infants, toddlers, young children. And their…
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Obedience
Luke 17:14 (1/17/11) When [Jesus] saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed. As they went. There was no miracle prior to the obedience. And the obedience was an act of faith. What would they have done if they’d gotten to the priest and still been…
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Back to Bethel
Some of these are quite personal. Hope you don’t mind. Genesis 35:1, 5, 10 (Originally written 1-14-10) Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” (1) God said to him, “Your name…
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Worry
Luke 12:29-31 (Originally written 1-12-11) “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things. But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be…
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Afraid
Genesis 28:16-17 (Originally written 1-11-11) Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it!” But he was also afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven!” But…
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Success?
Genesis 39:23 (Originally written 1-16-11) The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph’s care, because the lord was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did. Which is, if you think about it, a confusing statement. Twice in this chapter, it says God gave Joseph success in whatever he did. The first…
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Asking
Genesis 24:27 (Originally written 1-9-11 saying, “Praise be to the lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.” God’s hand is all over this chapter. Before he…
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Altar
Genesis 13:18 (Written 1-5-11) …and there he built an altar to the LORD. Actually, that phrase is found twice in two chapters, along with a reference to Abram returning to the first altar he built. The only time he gets into trouble? When he goes to Egypt and fails to build an altar, a worship…
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Settled
Genesis 11:31 (Written 4-4-11) Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. Settled. Terah was heading…
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Everybody
John 1:4 (Originally written 12-19-10) In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. All mankind. Including <Name withheld>. A nonbelieving friend I had online “discussions” with. Including “LousyCanuck”. An atheist on Twitter who loved to try to offend me. Including, well, everybody. God brings hard cases into my life. Atheists,…
For years, I’ve produced brief devotional videos called Jumpstarts that I published in various outlets. (You can find them here, as well as the odd podcast.) The root of those videos was daily Bible journals I’ve been doing for decades.
I recently decided to take a hiatus from the videos, and instead publish excerpts from those journals here.
As you’ll soon see, they tend to be brief, normally consisting of just one main idea. They may also be a little rough. I’m not going to do much editing. You’ll get them just the way they came out of my brain, years, days, or months ago.
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