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August 29
JESUS HEAVEN’S GREETER: “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:56). These are the words of martyr Stephen as he approached the moment of his passage Home. But I thought His Father had said, “SIT at My right hand, till I make Your…
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August 29 Petition Mission
“The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isa 53:6). Alexander Maclaren writes: “In the compass of three verses of this chapter, there are seven distinct, emphatic, and harmonious utterances, all bearing on one thought: the vicarious suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ. 1. ‘He has borne our griefs.’ 2. ‘And carried…
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August 29
Bob Brown began life February 12, 1944 as a throw-away child in an orphanage in South St. Paul, Minnesota. Purchased by a young couple for $55.50, Bob was raised in a nominally Christian home, but religion did nothing to fill the void. He studied at the university and then married his high school sweetheart. During…
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August 28, 2026 — Personal & Public Integrity
The first section “relates to the king’s heart and home, and the second to his court and city.” —W.G. Scroggie To get the sense of Psalm 101, we need a refresher on the difference between “will” and “shall.” Moderns rarely use the latter, commandeering “will” for each occasion. But there is an important difference. We may have noticed in Psalm 23…
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August 28
CHRIST the APPEARING ONE: “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:11-13). Christ…
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August 28 Petition Mission
“Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications! In Your faithfulness answer me, and in Your righteousness” (Ps 143:1). H. P. Barker tells a story about a poor woman who was being pressed by a tradesman to pay an account which she knew she had already settled. In that case he demanded that…