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July 15, 2026 — Nursery Lessons
Life’s only real tragedies are the ones from which we learn nothing. Stumbling stones can be stepping stones. Asaph is taking us to school. He will show us that even bad experiences can be good lessons, often the best of all. He writes that God “established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel” (Ps…
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July 15
CHRIST the PROVIDER of “ALL THINGS”: “All things are yours…And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor 3:21-23), for “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Rom 8:32). In fact, “His divine power…
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July 15 Petition Mission
“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth” (Ps 145:18). James M. Gray, an editor of the first Scofield Bible, was a close associate of D.L. Moody. Raised in a nominally Christian home, he did not know the Lord. One evening, while reading a book…
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July 15
Imputation means to reckon, or to put to one’s account. “And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.’ And he was called the friend of God” (Jas 2:23). A similar verse in Galatians 3:6 renders the word as “accounted to him.” We have the idea…
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Double Exposure
It was quite the day when my dad, just home from the war, was able to purchase a Kodak Brownie movie camera. In a previous column I told how royalty visited our hometown in those days. To top it off, my mother’s cousin presented the bouquet to Her Majesty. You know where the camera was…
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July 14, 2026 — Parables Of Old
Parable means “to throw alongside,” where we use concrete examples to illuminate abstract truth. Psalm 78 must be Asaph’s magnum opus, containing 76 verses. Why so long? For the same reason Methuselah lived the longest life and Jeremiah wrote the longest book. They are expressions of the longsuffering grace of God. It is a Maschil psalm, meaning it is…