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Continue reading →: An Album of Loss and PatienceSongs that Made a Difference / Rick McNally / July 2025 Knowledge and Innocence / Terry Scott Taylor / 1986 I was never that big into mainstream Christian Contemporary Music. I’ve always been on the more indie side of that particular genre. It was always Daniel Amos and Larry Norman…
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Continue reading →: The Recovery Process: Did we See God Working?Psalm 19:7 says God can recover souls through the Word. I’ve experienced it!
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Continue reading →: Delighting in Scripture, part onePsalm 19:7 / The Restoration of Your SoulRick McNally / July 7, 2025 The Bible does not thrill, the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible, and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically. Oswald Chambers The more you read the Bible,…
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Continue reading →: He Took Away My Sin and ShameHe Loves Me / Second Chapter of Acts / 1974 [Songs that made a difference in my life] Let’s go back a few decades to the 70’s. To a band called Second Chapter of Acts, two sisters and a brother who had long hair and could sing. I loved the…
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Continue reading →: 180 Degrees Out of PhaseRick McNally / July 2, 2025 The document below is one of my favorite things I have put together over the last few years. Its about the paradoxes of the faith. We all have heard of the paradoxes of scripture, There’s a ton of them. Here are a few samples,…
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Continue reading →: Thanks, Jim!Rick McNally / July 1, 2025 A friend of mine died this week. No, I only ever just shook his hand one time, and that was a few years ago. Not even sure what kind of a man he was, really. But I want to thank him today just the…
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Continue reading →: God’s Back BurnerThe presence of God seems to be gone. The connection with the Lord seems to be terminated. God seems to have abandoned David. That is how he feels. The Psalms are much more about “feeling” than most other genres in Scripture. David feels orphaned by God.
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Continue reading →: Jesus Vs. The Pharisees / The Final RoundWe’ve examined the Seven Woes found in Matthew 23 over the last two posts. Some Summary Statements Let’s put this all together. I think it’s helpful for us to see all the terms and all the critiques bunched together to take this in. Taken together as a whole, we have…
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Continue reading →: I Used to Be “Lonely by Myself”Thoughts Flung Free From the Music of My Childhood Rick McNally, June 26, 2025 When I was young “oh so much younger than today,” I ran into an artist named Larry Norman. I was a young Christian who didn’t always fall for the most popular thing around and was attracted…
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