"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)

TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL

Trials

Deplorable, Detestable, Despicable, Damnable Me!

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In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidate Hillary Clinton in one of her now infamous speeches characterized ‘half” of Donald Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables” and listed a number of unflattering characteristics that made them so.  This was considered by a number of pundits as contributing to her unexpected loss to Trump

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I Asked the LORD

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I recently came across these words to an old hymn by John Newton, titled “I Asked the Lord That I Might Grow“, along with the related commentary below.  Newton is most famous for the hymn, “Amazing Grace“.  This hymn below reflects his prayer for God’s constraining grace that would put an end to his struggle

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