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Pray And You Will Be Rescued!

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list. Shalom!Rowland Croucher (‘servus servorum dei’; AMDG)   Let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a time of distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach […]

Submit – And You Will Be Guided.

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Here’s another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list. Shalom!Rowland Croucher (‘servus servorum dei’; AMDG)   I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Psalm […]

Trust – And You Will Be Protected

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Here’s another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list. Shalom!Rowland Croucher (‘servus servorum dei’; AMDG)   Many are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the Lord. Psalm 32:10. Here the psalmist […]

Obey – And You Will Be Joyful.

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Here’s another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list. Shalom!Rowland Croucher (‘servus servorum dei’; AMDG)   Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart. Psalm 32: 11. Obey […]

“O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”

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by Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676 Text From: THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942), pp. 135-136 1. O sacred Head, now wounded, With grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded With thorns, Thine only crown. O sacred Head, what glory, What bliss, till now was Thine! Yet, though despised and […]

Jesus Still Weeps

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Here’s another daily meditation from my recent book of devotions ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco). Feel free to use/adapt it. These appear regularly on our mail-list. Shalom!Rowland Croucher (‘servus servorum dei’; AMDG) Jesus began to weep. John 11:35. One of the most powerful sermons I know was preached on Sunday 23 January, 1983, by the […]

An Eraser

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When you buy pencils these days, you have two options – just an ordinary pencil, or more likely one capped with an eraser. Have you ever thought that to be rather strange? Why should the manufacturers of pencils provide an eraser as well? It’s because they know that we all make mistakes. When we are […]

Healing For Purposeless Lives

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Healing for purposeless lives Copyright (c) 1997 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. “We live amidst the ruins of the great, five-hundred-year epoch of Humanism. Around us is that ‘colossal wreck.’ Our culture is a flat expanse of rubble . . . Is it surprising that we are run down? We are desperate, yet we don’t […]

I First Read This Some 10 Years Ago And Have Tried To Live It Since

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I first read this some 10 years ago and have tried to live it since. Not always successfully, but it is a goal. LETTING GO To let go doesn’t mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off, it’s the realisation that […]

Sin: The Law Of The Spirit

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THE BODY BATTLE The human body is a bacterial battlefield. There are in our body friendly bacilli whose job it is to maintain our physical health. Also present are the unfriendly bacilli whose activities break down the tissues and generate disease and death. These opposing and antagonistic germs create a civil war in our body. […]

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