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Posts tagged "defeat"

When Things Go South

Psalms Reflection

Have you ever given everything to fighting a battle, only to be ambushed by an unexpected attack from a different source?

Scholars link Psalm 60 to a series of military campaigns described in 2 Samuel 8. But where the Samuel passage has a victorious tone, Psalm 60 seems to have been written at a particularly desperate moment.

Read More confusion, trust, victory, defeat

Sweet Victory in Jesus

Read Reflect How amazing are the first eight verses of this passage? The psalmist is full of praise for the Lord and heaping all the victories onto God – we can’t help but feel inspired! Then, out of nowhere, bitter complaints and scornful grumblings right to the very end. Where God was once given victories, […]

Read More trouble, deliverance, defeat, feeling abandoned

Good Riddance!

So far we have seen what is happening to the world and the Church throughout history. Now we begin to see why it is happening: enter Satan. How do you see him? A principle of evil, a scary character with a pitchfork? John pictures him as a great red dragon with seven crowned heads and seven horns, and a tail that can dislodge a third of the stars.

Read More evil, Satan, defeat, dragon


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