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June 4, 2026 — Destroy Or Not—Is That The Question?
Mercy and wrath are united in the character of God. His wrath defends those who trust in His mercy. Psalms 57, 58, 59, and 75 are arranged to be sung to the tune, “Do Not Destroy” (Heb, Al-taschith). This is curious, because those psalms seem to be requesting a lot of destroying from Heaven’s armory! I’m reminded of…
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June 4
CHRIST STRONGER than the STRONG MAN: “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils” (Lk 11:21-22). Is it true that one…
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June 4 Petition Mission
“So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer” (Ezra 8:23). What was the issue? Exposed to “the enemy” on the long journey from Babylon to Jerusalem, they humbled themselves before God “to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions” (vv…
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June 4
The authors of the Epistles, writes J.B. Phillips, “had a tremendous sense of the overwhelming Moral Perfection of God. The insistence on the only safe approach to God being through Christ is due to this acute sense of the peril of a sinful being coming within range, as it were, of the blazing light and…
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June 3, 2026 — A Whirlwind Of Wrath
The tribulation will be “unmatched from the beginning of the world until now” (Mt 24:21, BSB). What will the faithful sing? Although we’ve had hints of this before (in Psalms 5, 10, 17, and 35), when we come to Psalm 58, we are reading a fully-developed Imprecatory Psalm. An imprecation is “a calling down of God’s judgment…
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June 3
CHRIST OUR FOUNDATION: “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 3:11). Sir William Dobbie was the heroic governor of Malta (biblical Melita, scene of Paul’s shipwreck) when, in 1940, it was bitterly besieged. But “the most bombed spot on earth” did not fall. He…