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July 30, 2026 — Blessed…Blessed…Blessed
This song was to be accompanied “on an instrument of Gath.” Gath? Goliath’s hometown? Really! Maybe, as with my grandchildren, I shouldn’t have a favorite, but Psalm 84 brings me great delight. The Selahs divide the psalm into three equal parts of four verses each, and these sections present three blessed truths. “Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;…
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July 30
CHRIST the REMAKER: “…so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make” (Jer 18:4). As new creatures in Christ, we are welcome in Heaven, where He has “made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show…
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July 30 Petition Mission
“And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the…
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July 30
George Goodman writes: “The gospel must be preached with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven (1 Pet 1:12). This is why such blessing attended the preaching of Peter on the day of Pentecost. He was filled with the Spirit and spoke as the Spirit gave him utterance (Acts 2:4). The preacher must be one…
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July 29, 2026 — Beloved Enemy
A common house plant, Tradescantia Zebrina, is called “The Wandering Jew.” Do you wonder why? Driven from place to place through history, the Jewish people would find these words no idle threat: “They have said, ‘Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more’” (Ps 83:4).…
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July 29
JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN: “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In 1880, James W.C. Fegan was on a camping trip in the country with some of the boys he had rescued from the city streets. They visited the home of Charles Darwin, who lived nearby, and…