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the official blog of M.C. Kennedy


Great Treasure
"I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil" (Psalm 119:162). Psalm 119 employs many metaphors for God's Word, comparing it to...
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Jun 3, 20242 min read
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Delightful Word
"If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction" (Psalm 119:92). God's Word is an amazing thing. It is not...
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May 27, 20242 min read
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A Conscious Choice
"I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me" (Psalm 119:30). Psalm 119 is all about one man's love for God's law....
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May 20, 20242 min read
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A Gracious Life
"And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all...
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May 13, 20242 min read
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The Gift of Today
"When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see...
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Apr 29, 20242 min read
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Pursuit of More
"What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his...
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Apr 22, 20242 min read
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Cheerful Giver
"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver" (2 Corinthians...
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Apr 15, 20242 min read
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Effective Work
"But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me" (1 Corinthians 16:8-9). Paul always...
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Apr 8, 20242 min read
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Victorious Death
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,...
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Apr 1, 20242 min read
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Love and Knowledge
"This 'knowledge' puffs up, but love builds up" (1 Corinthians 8:1). Knowledge isn't everything. We tend to equate knowledge with power....
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Mar 25, 20242 min read
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Back to the Basics
"For I decided to know nothing among you except Christ and him crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2). Paul is one of the most famous characters...
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Mar 18, 20242 min read
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A Suffering Savior
"For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted" (Hebrews 2:18). The opening chapters...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
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A Lament
"'For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate,...
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Feb 26, 20242 min read
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A True Security
"'You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, "Do not go to Egypt to live there"'" (Jeremiah 43:2). The people of...
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Feb 19, 20242 min read
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A Hard Word
"'If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent...
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Feb 12, 20242 min read
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An Impractical Command
"'"Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, 'Buy the field for money and get witnesses'--though the city is given into the hands of the...
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Feb 5, 20242 min read
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A Stubborn Faithfulness
"'For twenty-three years [...] the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened'"...
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Jan 29, 20242 min read
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An Honest Cry
"'Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?'"...
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Jan 22, 20242 min read
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A Grieving God
"'Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?'" (Jeremiah 13:27). Jeremiah's title, "The Weeping Prophet,"...
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Jan 15, 20242 min read
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Only a Youth
"But the LORD said to me, 'Do not say, "I am only a youth"; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you...
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Jan 8, 20242 min read
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