O God, restore us; light up your face and we shall be saved. Psalms 80:4 NABRE This psalm is an appeal to God, the Shepherd of Israel, to restore His desolate people. Their prayer is confident and urgent. It begins with an appeal to God to intervene, then a complaint…
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If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 1 Peter 4:14 NABRE Peter is writing to the communities about imitating Christ, his main theme is about suffering. Peter recognized Jesus suffered and was rejected and…
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This is our second week of a new six-week series we are calling, have mercy on us. We see this pleading before Jesus by ten lepers who are looking for something from Jesus that will make their lives better. The series will look at the way Jesus challenges us to…
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The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent; They are renewed each morning; great is your faithfulness! Lamentations 3:22-23 NABRE The book of Lamentation is five poems that describe anguish over the destruction of Jerusalem during the siege by the Babylonians and final destruction in…
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I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed for us. Romans 8:18 NABRE Paul in the section of the letter to the Romans with the quoted verse is speaking about divine adoption. Those led by the Spirit received a…
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