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Today’s Reading: Psalm 102-104
It is intersting how some Psalms seem to resonate with contemporary Christians, while others go largely unquoted and unknown. From Psalm 103, I recognized verses using in a couple of songs and a couple that are often quoted. Psalms 102 and 104 don’t seem to have quite that level of popular recognition. [...]

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Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 7-10
Today’s reading sees an end to the genealogy lists and rejoins the books of Samuel with a synopsis of death of Saul. It’s noteworthy that Chronicles puts the fault for Saul’s fall squarely on his failure to follow God’s command and his consulting a medium. Seems like a pretty good example [...]

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Today’s Reading: Psalm 81, 88, 92-93
How great are Your works, O LORD!
Your thoughts are very deep.
A senseless man has no knowledge,
Nor does a stupid man understand this:
That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.
Sometimes I get a little frustrated with the advancements [...]

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Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 6
Another big list of names, in this case the priestly line from Levi.

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Today’s Reading: Psalm 73, 77-78
Three long Psalms.
Unlike the “Songs of Ascent”, here are some examples much longer Psalms. Even though they are wordy, they express some simple ideas:

The wicked are decieved if they think they are getting away with it. (Psalm 73)
If God came through before (and He has), He will again. (Psalm 77)
God doesn’t [...]

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Today’s Reading: 1 Chronicles 3-5
More genealogies.  It is interesting how God includes little glimpses into some the lives we go whizzing past, maybe not enough for a full character study, but just enough to remind us that these were real people with real lives and that they were a part of His plan.

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Today’s Reading: Psalm 43-45, 49, 84-85, 87
More Psalms:
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
In Psalm 43, the writer is asking for deliverance, not from some over due bills, or a head cold, or some people that don’t appreciate his choice in faiths, but from a whole, ungodly nation and and [...]

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