Psalm 56:3 does not tell you to stop being afraid before a court date. It assumes you already are – and its heading ties it to the day David was “sore afraid” in enemy hands at Gath.
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What Does It Mean to Be a Christian in Everyday Life? The Carpenter Years
What does it mean to be a Christian in everyday life? The Gospels hand eighteen of Jesus’s years a single word – carpenter – and Paul’s advice is stranger still.
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Most Powerful Prayer for Healing for Myself: You Are Allowed to Ask
The Bible keeps one prayer with no author’s name on it, labelled only for the overwhelmed. A prayer for healing for myself you can pray tonight, and the permission to ask.
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Why You Feel Small Around Certain People
Why you feel small around certain people, and why the part you never checked – the part about how they see you – is almost always the part that is wrong.
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: Lyrics, Meaning, and the Secret Spelled Out in Its Verses
Most Christmas carols celebrate a birth that has already happened. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel does not. Every verse asks for something that has not arrived yet, and even the...
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“Where the Mind Is Without Fear” Is a Prayer
Tagore’s famous line opens a single-sentence prayer, and his own English translation leaves out the Bengali’s hardest request. What the poem actually asks.
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A Little Life Ending Explained: Why Jude Can’t Accept Love
A Little Life ending explained: Jude is offered rescue by Harold, Willem and Andy and takes none of it. The letter hidden in the bookcase shows why not.
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Who Was Bathsheba? The Woman the Bible Never Blames
Who was Bathsheba? Not the seductress the retellings invented. See what 2 Samuel actually says, who her husband really was, and the name God refused to drop.
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What Is a People Pleaser? The Missing Word Is ‘No’
What is a people pleaser? Not someone who is simply too nice. It is someone for whom the word no was quietly deleted from the list of available answers.
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How to Write a Eulogy When the Person Was Complicated
How to write a eulogy when the person was complicated – what to do with the parts that were not good, and the one choice the oldest eulogy on record made.