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August 19, 2026 — A Refuge For The Righteous
“In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul” (Ps 94:19). Amazing! When dividing a poem, we’re always in danger of dissecting the butterfly to see how it flies—and then it doesn’t fly anymore. Still, I think it’s helpful to see the various movements directing us through the psalm. Psalm 94 appears…
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August 19
CHRIST the SIMPLE ANSWER: “‘How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way…’” (Jn 14:5-6). Frederick Baedeker received permission to distribute Bibles in the far-flung prisons of Tsarist Russia. At one near the Black Sea, he had given Bibles to the general population, when the guard told of a murderer…
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August 19 Petition Mission
“When Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel” (2 Chron 31:8). Under good king Hezekiah, temple worship had been restored. Now the people needed to give generously to provide for the Lord’s work. When the king visited the place where they were gathering the supplies,…
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August 19
The remarkable conversion of British thinker C.S. Lewis is described in his own words: “To find their way, atheists must make sense out of a random first cause, denounce as immoral all moral denunciation, express meaningfully all meaninglessness, and find security in hopelessness.…You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night,…
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August 18, 2026 — God Above The Storm
“What matters beating wind and tossing billow If only we are in the boat with Thee?” —Amy Carmichael Forgive me if this is simply a flight of fancy, but in the first part of Psalm 93, I seem to see the Lord rising from His throne in regal majesty, His garments billowing out like the…