Verse of the Week
A weekly, encouraging blog
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Wrestling with Confusion: Trusting God in Uncertainty
Confusing Christianity We like to call some of the deeper teachings of Christianity a mystery. The deity of Christ, the trinity, the virgin birth, election, we accept these teachings by faith. Like the size of the universe or the idea of eternity, they are a mystery to us. But somehow the things closer to home…
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Wendy’s Journey: A Testament of Faith and Healing
Well, I’m a day late getting the verse out this week — we were in Houston over the weekend for a memorial service for Wendy, my wife’s sister. Wendy had spent most of her life far from God. Here’s the embarrassing truth: we had been praying for her for years, yet when she finally turned…
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Summer In the Psalms
In CS Lewis’ classic book The Screwtape Letters a demon, Screwtape, is training his nephew on how to tempt humans. He writes, “whatever their bodies do affects their soul. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: In reality, our best work is done by keeping things out.” Here…
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The Rest of the Story
[picture by Alessandro Cerino on Unsplash] When I was a kid, my dad would listen to a radio show by Paul Harvey called The Rest of the Story. Paul Harvey would tell a story but at a key point stop and say, “In a minute you will hear the rest of the story.” Then they…
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You need these verses
Sometimes I have difficulty getting into the skin of what verses in the Bible are trying to say. So, I go into my fancy Logos Bible program – or jump to Bible Hub or Blueletter Bible on my phone – and took up the word-for-word translation. After some study, and stealing from other translations, I…
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Simplified Cooley Version
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 in the SCV: The light of God’s power is inside me. I’m fragile, but His power is great. That’s why I’m troubled but not crushed, perplexed but not giving up, spiritually terrorized but never abandoned by God, hurled down but unbroken. I was trying to memorize 2 Corinthians 4:7-9, and realized paraphrasing it…
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