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Psalm 44 Introduction Video This material comes from the organization International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church, which every year at this time encourages churches and Christians to pray for fellow Christians in other countries who are being persecuted. Psalm 44 was written at a time when…

Psalm 37 Introduction I have been reading the book, "You Lost Me" by David Kinnaman. It is a book about why young people are leaving the church and in some cases the faith. Kinnaman says that, "Wrestling with faith is an enduring feature of the transition to young adulthood…" In other words, we have…

Psalm 93 Introduction As a family we used to play a game called Survive, which was one of Jonathan's favorite games. The idea of the game is that the island in the center is being destroyed by an earthquake and you have to get your people to the solid ground on the corners of the game board by using…

Psalm 99 Introduction This morning I would like to begin a series of messages on the Psalms that will take us until Christmas. Of course, since there are 150 of them, we won't look at all of them. There are a variety of Psalms and I have chosen a number of different types of Psalms, with different themes…

Psalm 16 Introduction What do you get excited about? In August I took sailing lessons for the first time and I got really excited about sailing. Since then I have been thinking about how I can rig my canoe in order to make it into a sailboat. There are a lot of other things that I get excited about and…

Psalm 9 Introduction Today is Remembrance Day. What do we do with this day? When we lived in Manitou, I often participated in the Remembrance Day service which was held every year by reading Scripture. However, the Legion chaplain, who was a friend of mine, kept asking me to preach and so one year I…

Psalm 73 Introduction I learned to golf by doing it. Because no one taught me, I learned some bad habits and although I had some good games, I also had a lot of problems. Then a fellow came into our life who was a golf pro. I went golfing with him and he began to teach me to golf properly. His first…

Psalm 88 Introduction I enjoy blues music. I don't know why I like it because it is actually quite sad music. When the African people came to America, they were brought over as slaves and they suffered greatly. They sang songs which expressed their suffering and they used the term "blues" to describe…

Psalm 91 Introduction I can't remember exactly which commercial it was, but I remember laughing out loud because it was so unbelievable. Now I have to admit that I am a skeptic when it comes to most commercials. I often think that they make promises which I am quite sure they can't keep. We have just…