Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 30, 2025
People generally don't like change.
As Mark Twain famously said, "The only person who likes change is a wet baby." There's a lot of truth to that quote. Many times, we think of change as being a bad thing, and we older people have seen a lot of bad changes in our lifetimes.
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 29, 2025
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:5-6, where he tells us to trust in the Lord. David said, "Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, And your justice as the noonday."
*How is the Lord
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 29, 2025
Rest in the LORD
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:7-11, where he said:
7. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
8. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret -- it
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 29, 2025
Roll Your Cares onto the LORD
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:5 where he said, "Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, And He shall bring it to pass."
*The original word for "commit" here means to roll, roll away, roll down. Ron Dunn tells us that the
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 28, 2025
Severely Injured Christian Learned to Read Braille Bible with Tongue
In the middle of Psalm 37:3 David reminds us that we should trust God enough to follow Him and walk in His ways. Or as David simply said: "Do good."
*"Do good." This is God's simple and sure command for
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 28, 2025
GOOD FOOD FROM THE GOOD SHEPHERD
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:1-3, where the KJV says:
1. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3. Trust in
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 28, 2025
RUSH TO THE LORD FOR REFUGE.
This is David's message to us in Psalm 37:1-3, where the KJV says:
1. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3. Trust in the
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 28, 2025
[215]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - HIS PRECIOUS REDEEMED ONES
In my messages and sermons, sometimes I raise the plight of suffering Christians enduring persecution such as we observe in many nations in Africa. It makes me think of these suffering ones and how the Lord views them.
They are
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Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Sep 28, 2025
[214]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM - PAUL’S PRISON
This is my oldest surviving poem. I had parts of others but they are gone. The poem came about when thinking of Paul in prison in Rome. Everything seemed against him there, but he was never forsaken by God of course.
When Paul was in prison he
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Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 28, 2025
An airliner was making its way from New York to San Francisco. Midway across the country, one of the engines caught fire.
The captain came on the intercom and calmly reassured the passengers,
> “Don’t worry. The fire will be out soon. This aircraft can fly just fine with three engines.”
Not
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 27, 2025
Background on Psalm 37 - How to Have God's Peace in Horrible Times
Anyone who has read a good portion of God's Word knows that there are a lot of prayers provided for us in the Bible. The Dake Annotated Reference Bible lists 222 different prayers in the Bible: 176 prayers in the Old
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Contributed by Rick Crandall on Sep 27, 2025
John Phillips gave us this helpful background information: "Next to the book of Job, Psalm 90 is most likely the oldest piece of writing in the Bible. This psalm was written by Moses in the wilderness on the way from Egypt to Canaan. So, Psalm 90 stands in grand isolation as the oldest psalm
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Contributed by David Dunn on Sep 27, 2025
A story from drought-stricken Texas captures the boldness of true intercession.
For months no rain had fallen. Desperate believers called a Friday-night prayer meeting.
One farmer stopped for fuel on the way. In the back seat lay an umbrella.
The station attendant mocked, “Why carry that? It
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