Author Archives: Pete

A Divine Visitation

If there’s any place I think someone wants to be inconspicuous at, it’s at a funeral. Beyond the focus placed on the loved one lost, the attention then belongs to the grieving ones left behind. But I remember once stepping … Continue reading →

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Royal Grace

Finished up 2Kings this morning. Kind of sad when you pause and reflect how what had started out so well with the promises of God, ended up so bleakly with the prisons of Assyria and Babylon. Talk about your roller … Continue reading →

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Help These Women

This week I was talking to my daughter and she came across a short poem that she remembered hearing as a little girl: To live above, with saints we love, O’ won’t that be glory. But to live below, with saints … Continue reading →

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Seek Your Servant

You’d think that after 175 verses of extolling the Word of God . . . after 22 stanzas singing of the dynamics associated with the promises, precepts, and testimonies of the LORD . . . that after all that, there’d … Continue reading →

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His Own

The people of God are referred to in many ways in the Scriptures. We are saints, and we are His disciples. We are sheep, and we comprise His body. We are family, and we are also His bride. And this … Continue reading →

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We Are The Circumcision

Paul calls them dogs. He labels them evil doers. You’ll know them, he says, because they are those who mutilate the flesh. And to the believers at Philippi he says, “Look out for them.” They won’t come with snarling teeth … Continue reading →

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A Current Truth

It wasn’t that they deserved it. Nor that they were going to get their act together and, perhaps, some day deserve it. But it was because of another . . . and the promise made to him . . . … Continue reading →

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Where Are the Tears?

Ok . . . so this makes me really uncomfortable. The Word of God can do that to you. Honestly, I prefer things jumping off the page that I think I understand . . . or think I have a … Continue reading →

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Windows in Heaven

The situation was desperate. Samaria had been besieged by the king of Syria (2Kings 6:24). Nobody gets out of the city. Nobody gets in. More importantly, nothing gets in. Not food . . . not water . . . nor … Continue reading →

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Let Down the Nets

It came out of nowhere. One moment Jesus is teaching the crowd, the next he’s talking to the fisherman. With one breath Jesus is revealing the coming of the kingdom of God, with the next he says, “Go fishing.” And … Continue reading →

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