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October 16, 2026 — The Songs Of Degrees Or Ascents
It seems the richest psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs are written in times of trauma and triumph. Let’s scan the landscape. We’ve seen that Psalms 113–118 are the foothills rising up toward Psalm 119. Called the Egyptian Hallel, they were sung on Israel’s red letter days. Now on the other side of what we called…
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October 16
CHRIST OUR NEW OCCUPANT: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (Jn 14:23). C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), in his classic, Mere Christianity, writes: “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house.…
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October 16 Petition Mission
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon” (Isa 55:7). Here is a practical petition for the lost around us. Why do they not turn? Maybe they haven’t been…
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October 16
Frederick N. Charrington, heir to the largest distillery in England, while traveling in France, met an acquaintance, William Rainsford, and invited him home. He writes: “When we arrived, to my astonishment Rainsford suddenly said, ‘I feel very guilty. We have traveled all the way over the Continent, and enjoyed ourselves very much, but I have…
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TEST YOUR FAITH at 35,000 feet
Some people can’t see how FAITH and FATE are connected. But the one determines the other. What you believe determines your destiny forever. Faith isn’t about FABLES, it’s about FACTS, and those facts are based on evidence. If you believe that evidence, you become evidence—of the life-changing power of the Good News. […]Read More… from…
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October 15, 2026 — Pilgrim Songs
“Before the dawning…[I] cry for help;…through the night…I…meditate on Your word” (Ps 119:147-148). “Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage” (Ps 119:54). After the Reformation, Metrical Psalters were produced by many poets in many languages. The attitude of some believers was, “Why sing songs that men wrote when you can sing the…