tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37755130855053608272026-03-30T01:59:06.796-05:00This blog is a place to gather daily devotionals, as well as to maintain a blog roll that focuses on matters of faith and theology.Kent Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844868531788303280noreply@blogger.comBlogger617125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3775513085505360827.post-23347208293795405402014-07-12T18:38:00.001-05:002014-07-12T18:39:07.014-05:00

2014 Update on largest churches in the Southern Baptist Convention/

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2013 Update: Largest Churches in the Southern Baptist Convention

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"Does the United States enjoy most-favored-nation status in the councils of heaven? An old debate is stirring again. Is America exceptional in the eyes of world history? Is the U.S.A. unique in the eyes of God?"Full Article: Politics distorts 'exceptional' link of America to God The Tennessean tennessean.com

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I wish I'd come across this page earlier in 2010 to complement the recurring posts from the book of Psalms. Oh well, better late than never, here is a link to the Beeson Divinity School's Fall 2010 Chapel Series "Knowing God through the Psalms". Chapel Downloads

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It has been a while since the Baptist Convention was the subject of front page headlines in The Tennessean. Read of Rev. Frank Page's challenges here:Southern Baptist Convention's new leader seeks harmony tennessean.com The Tennessean

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A bit of good reading for a Sunday morning:Been Thinking About » The Goal and Means of Wisdom

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Psalm 150 (English Standard Version) Let Everything Praise the LORD 1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! 3 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! 4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! 5 Praise him with

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Psalm 149 (English Standard Version) Sing to the LORD a New Song 1 Praise the LORD!Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! 2 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King! 3 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with

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Psalm 148 (English Standard Version) Praise the Name of the LORD 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights! 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts! 3 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars! 4 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and

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Psalm 147 (English Standard Version) He Heals the Brokenhearted 1 Praise the LORD!For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. 4 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. 5 Great is our

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Psalm 146 (English Standard Version) Put Not Your Trust in Princes 1 Praise the LORD!Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. 5 Blessed is he

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The rescue of the Chilean miners is such a powerful story, please click on the link below to read about the "34th" miner:Reformation Theology: Chile: God at work amongst "the 33" miners

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Psalm 145 (English Standard Version) Great Is the LORD A Song of Praise. Of David. 1 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. 2 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. 3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty

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Psalm 144 (English Standard Version) My Rock and My Fortress Of David. 1 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; 2 he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. 3 O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? 4 Man

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Nice column on the Chilean mine rescue. Phoenix Rising by Susan Estrich on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent

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Psalm 143 (English Standard Version) My Soul Thirsts for You A Psalm of David. 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! 2 Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. 3 For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like

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Psalm 142 (English Standard Version) You Are My Refuge A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. 1 With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 2 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him. 3 When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me. 4 Look to the right and

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Psalm 141 (English Standard Version) Give Ear to My Voice A Psalm of David. 1 O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you! 2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 3 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips! 4 Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy

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Psalm 140 (English Standard Version) Deliver Me, O LORD, from Evil Men To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men, 2 who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. 3 They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps.      Selah 4 Guard me, O LORD, from the

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Psalm 139 (English Standard Version) Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether

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Psalm 138 (English Standard Version) Give Thanks to the LORD Of David. 1 I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise; 2 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word. 3 On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul

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Psalm 137 (English Standard Version) How Shall We Sing the LORD’s Song? 1 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres. 3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" 4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O

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Psalm 136 (English Standard Version) His Steadfast Love Endures Forever 1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; 4 to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; 5 to him who

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Psalm 135 (English Standard Version) Your Name, O LORD, Endures Forever 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD, give praise, O servants of the LORD, 2 who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God! 3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for it is pleasant! 4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession. 5 For I

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Good interview along with some interesting comments and replies.Ed Stetzer - Leadership Book Interview: John Revell on Sinful Silence

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