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April 13, 2026 — The Servant’s Master
Speaking about the Master should be the easiest thing to do since He’s “altogether lovely” (Song 5:16). Psalm 36 is one of the few psalms where David claims a title. It isn’t “David the Hometown Hero of Bethlehem” or “David the Fearless Champion of Elah’s Vale.” Nor is it the biblical “Man After God’s Heart” or “Sweet…
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April 13
CHRIST “the DESIRE of all nations” (Hag 2:7). Albert Fallaize, missionary to Morocco, tells how his wife visited a dying Arab boy. She had heard the mother wailing in grief. Approaching the tent, she saw the emaciated figure close to death. She asked permission to tell him a story, receiving a nodded assent. Kneeling beside…
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April 13 Petition Mission
“Ah, Lord God! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall have peace,’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart” (Jer 4:10). Jeremiah would not be the last one to fail to reconcile God’s promises with his reading of present circumstances. Martin Luther wrote, “At one time I was sorely vexed…
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April 13
In Bill Maher’s movie, Religulous, he baits a U.S. senator for believing in “a talking snake in the garden.” But “why should it be thought a thing incredible” for atheists to believe in a snake with the ability to talk? Don’t they believe that a whole species of “animals” arose after millions of years of…
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April 12
The INESCAPABLE CHRIST. No one can do as Pilate’s wife suggested, “Have nothing to do with that just Man” (Mt 27:19). Yet it is possible to follow Christ as the Pharisees did—to argue with Him, criticise Him, find fault with Him. Donald Grey Barnhouse wrote: “The magazines of the world carry a constant stream of…
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April 12 Petition Mission
“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us” (Ps 90:17). For many years this verse hung by the mirror where we prepared ourselves to meet the day. It often reminded me of another psalm: “They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed” (34:5). H.G. Bosch says, “A…