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  1. Chad talks about the practice of prayer and the offering of incense.
  2. Chad explains the context and background of Psalm 52 and explores the destructive power of the tongue. The Psalm.
  3. Calling on the God’s vengeance, this militant prayer is aimed against the enemies of God and his people.
  4. Using agricultural images, the Psalmist speaks of suffering and the persecutions that Israel endures.
  5. Chad meditates on what it means to look to God and how He looks at us.
  6. We step into the voting booth with one foot on the outside. We are Americans, to be sure, but we are much more. We are citizens of the kingdom of God, over which the King of kings reigns supreme. Our time here is temporary. We are resident aliens in a land destined for a fiery destruction. Our allegiance is to Christ.
  7. Sometimes believers vigorously debate God, sometimes they nod a silent Amen. Together, their narratives paint a picture of a life of faith characterized by complexity and tension.
  8. Look inside yourself to answer, “Are you a Christian?” and what will you find?
  9. David and Job both know that prayer puts a cigarette lighter to all prim and proper books of religious etiquette. It is honest. Heated. Emotional. Raw. And the psalms are packed with it.
  10. We show up to this crowded sacred shindig on Sundays, all wings and halos and blue jeans, and shimmy our way into the sanctuary, late to church but not late to church, for how can we be late to a service that never ends?
  11. Peter showed his soul on the night when he denied knowing Jesus. Or, as I prefer to think of it, when he finally told the truth.
  12. It is a strange irony, but in a world drunk on violence, it is only on the cross of violence that there is hope for peace in our world.
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