Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies

By Steven Paulson

01/16/26

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Psalm 12, Part 2: The Saint Fails, The Word Purifies

God makes us pure saints by planting us back in the earth we imagined we needed to escape.

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Psalm 12, Part 1: Set in Salvation

Salvation is not merely to be put in “safety” but to be put into Christ.

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Lenten Love Songs

Three Lenten songs express the same astonishing wonder of a Lord who willingly suffers and dies.

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Sometimes the old story is the one we need to hear again and again.

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The great lie of addiction is that suffering must be fled, must be numbed, must be drowned out by any means necessary.

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To be happy is to be the object of God’s love in Christ and to love God and others with the love of Christ.

Joey Goodall

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You cannot sever the saint from the sinner. Christians remain both simultaneously.

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The wrong god means love remains frail, fickle, or a fiction. The right God means love is the most reliable thing in all the world.

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There is no one — not now, not ever — who cannot be included in the family of God through the efficacy of Christ’s saving power.

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Wisdom lurks in the outer places. Rich gratitude sprouts from the impoverished and forgotten.

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