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Continue reading →: The Arrogant and the Anointed / Psalm 2Psalm 2 / Rick McNally / June 2025 Person 1: Psalm 1 and Psalm 2 are different. Person 2: Yeah, they’re different, there are different Psalms, buddy. Person 1: No. I know that, but they are different. They are the same, but they are different. The message is strikingly similar,…
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Continue reading →: Denying and Delighting / Psalm 1Psalm 1 / Rick L. McNally / June 3, 2025 Blessed. Highly favored. Fortunate. Happy. This would be a good place to start. How do we become happy again after difficult times? How do we feel “highly favored” after enduring difficult things? Even more common, after the simple…
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Continue reading →: Not Too Hard = Keeping the Law?(Or) Would you be a “righteous person” in the Old Testament time? Rick L. McNally / May 2025 Note: I’ve been ruminating on this passage and idea for over a year. This is my first time trying to express it in writing. Be gentle, for this is a confession of…
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Continue reading →: Christlike Leadership / Part FourOther Doctrines that are negatively affected by Authoritarian Leadership Structures RLM / May 2025 There are a number of other doctrines that are compromised when people believe that obedience to elders should be something that is without limit or without proper accountability. These are very significant when discussing this issue.…
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Continue reading →: Christlike Leadership / Part ThreePeter and Paul’s Views on Leadership RLM / May 2025 Peter’s Teaching on Elders / No Domineering Individuals, Rather Good Examples 1 Peter 5:1–4 (ESV) / 1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a…
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Continue reading →: Christlike Leadership / Part TwoJesus’ Teaching on Leaders and Elders / Lords or Servants? What did Jesus teach us about leadership and authority? Why do we stray from it so fast, so easily? Are we ignorant, or are we simply sinful in nature? I guess it’s a bit of both. Mark 10 Mark 10:42–45…
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Continue reading →: Christlike Leadership / Part OneExposing a Misused Proof Text: Hebrews 13:17 RLM / May 2025 Below is a quick summary of the different aspects mentioned in this piece. It is my desire that we as Christians move beyond the worldly focus on authority as power and control and move on toward thinking of authority as mutual service, submission, and…
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Continue reading →: Messiah is Coming, Despite our Best-Worst EffortsThoughts on the Messianic Passages of 1 and 2 Samuel Rick L. McNally, April 15, 2025 The books of 1 and 2 Samuel are beautiful pieces of art. They speak of the faithlessness of men and the stubbornness of God to work with and through the broken people he created.…
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Continue reading →: Daniel’s Great PrayerDaniel Chapter 9 / What can we learn from a man who prayed in the desert 2,600 years ago? Actually, a lot! Rick McNally / 2025 Daniel was a man of Judah. Before he was born, his country was broken into two. When he was young, perhaps about 15 years…
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Continue reading →: How to Choose Faith over Fear: Strength from Psalm 56Rick McNally / April 2025 In this season of my life, I more fully understand the Psalms. I fondly remember one of my professors at Moody Bible Institute telling us that the Psalms would not mean as much to us 20-somethings as to older people—people who have been beaten up…
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