Marcos
Tables turned on me
One of my favorite lists is my email recipients who are Latin missionaries. I send things their way, every once in a while, just to...
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Marcos
Aug 17, 20221 min read
Dusty
It’s nice that we are so much smoother than the disobedient back in Jeremiah’s day. Pashhur the priest did not like the word from God...
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Marcos
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Broken pots
You know the feeling. You come up with a good illustration or object lesson, something that really made the message alive for the...
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Marcos
Aug 7, 20221 min read
A hypothetical question
Today I have the joy of teaching Ps 73 and a couple of things are going through my head this morning. Just as a refresher: Asaph was...
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Marcos
Aug 2, 20221 min read
Hissing
Jeremiah 18, God’s people played with false gods. They chose to stumble along their own favorite path rather than walk on God’s way. They...
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Marcos
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Step one
Opening up again to Jeremiah and the potter, what catches my eye today is that God sets up a time and place with the prophet… first go...
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Marcos
Jul 26, 20221 min read
Molded like clay
God sends Jeremiah to the potter’s shop in Jeremiah 18. As I just came through a season of “His-plans-not-my-plans”, this passage makes...
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Marcos
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Confession time
This morning I opened up to the 73rd psalm again. It’s not that my Bible is stuck there, but, rather, that God has told me this is where...
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Marcos
Jul 19, 20222 min read
He is
Bouncing back to Ps 74, just a reminder of when we were last there, the “other” Asaph was feeling like God’s anger had been smoking...
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Marcos
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Keeping score
This morning, as I open again to psalm #73, I am struck with the fact that Asaph didn’t just look at the awful stuff the people around...
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Marcos
Jul 12, 20221 min read
See-saw
Back to Psalm 73. Where did Asaph mess up? It’s right there in verse 3—I see that he saw, and that was when his walk became a see-saw....
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Marcos
Jul 10, 20221 min read
Psalm 74
Song 74 is ascribed to Asaph. Mostly we know of Asaph as the worship leader for David and Solomon. He banged a mean pair of bronze...
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Marcos
Jul 8, 20221 min read
What's the point?
“And as for me”, Asaph confesses in Song #73, “I got so caught up in looking at those around me, all them lying, vile, chumps who were...
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Marcos
Jul 5, 20221 min read
Very newtestamental
Solomon penned Psalm 72. Good ole Sol was a pretty sharp guy, although he did seem to sometimes have trouble practicing what he preached....
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Marcos
Jul 5, 20223 min read
Two of three before noon
I received this text from a young missionary friend: “I have a little story to tell you. The past few weeks I’ve been worrying about...
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Marcos
Jul 2, 20221 min read
Gray hairs
A friend invited me to take a turn in his pulpit next month. I get the choice between the Sunday the expositional teaching will be in...
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Marcos
Jun 28, 20222 min read
I don’t want to be a shrub
The curtain opens on Jeremiah 17, and I am startled: “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is...
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Marcos
Jun 25, 20221 min read
There is something there
I am still drinking in Psalm 91 this morning. Today as I reread it, I notice that in verse one, the author is speaking in third person...
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Marcos
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Dwell
I’ve always had a bit of a personal relationship with Ps 91. In part because, as a very young believer, I read Jim Elliot’s diary...
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Marcos
Jun 19, 20221 min read
Faithful heart
Still in Nehemiah, today in the ninth chapter. It’s a repentance chapter. Notably, it is one of three “chapter nine” repentance chapters...
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