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| Well.. I'm back. Sorta. After having not posted for 4 months and 2 days, I decided to say something.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present:
Charles Spurgeon's The Treasury of David
A verse by verse examination of all 150 Psalms.
[Note: Just be mindful that Spurgeon sometimes has quite strong theology.]
And also, for those that are of interest:
Charles Spurgeon's A Defense of Calvinism
No arguing in the comment box, please. Debate, but debate nicely. 
Psalm 93 - "The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty;
The LORD is robed in majesty
and is armed with strength.
The world is firmly established;
it cannot be moved.
Your throne was established long ago;
you are from all eternity.
The seas have lifted up, O LORD,
the seas have lifted up their voice;
the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
Mightier than the thunder of the great waters,
mightier than the breakers of the sea--the LORD on high is mighty.
Your statutes stand firm; holiness adorns your house
for endless days, O LORD.
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
~Kiwi
Edit: I just got accepted to University of Michigan Dearborn!
Edit Edit: Look at Harv's blog layout.
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| ... The LORD said to Moses:
"Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most
Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the
ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the
atonement cover..." (Leviticus 16:2)
Man, in his sinfulness, was not capable of entering the Most Holy
Place. Man was God's enemy. As such, any man that attempted would die,
unless he came in while God was covered from him. As such, not just
anyone could go to into the Most Holy Place.
Matthew 27:50-51 :: And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
The moment Christ died, the curtain that separated sinful man from the
Most Holy Place, the unholy man from the Holy God, was torn in half.
Hebrews 10:19-22 :: Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let
us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and
having our bodies washed with pure water.
Therefore, we can enter the Most Holy Place, God's residence, through
the Blood of Christ. There is no other way by which we could have come
into such a place. Certainly not by our own means would we rend the
curtain and enter, for we would die! We could not do anything that he
should allow us to so enter. Rather, He had to come down from his seat
of Glory on high, to become a servant, to shed His own precious blood
so that we might have access to the throne room of God.
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| In Hebrews 11, Paul states: "Now Faith is being sure of what we hope
for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were
commended for. ... All these people were still
living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things
promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And
they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead,
they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is
not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them."
They admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. And in the
same way that they did not belong here, so we do not belong here. This
world is not our home. The old saying "Home is where your heart is"
comes to mind. If our heart is hid with God, our home is with God. If,
however, our heart is in the things of the world, our home is here. Not
good news considering that this world is ending.
In Romans 13, Paul exhorts the church that "The hour has come for you to wake up from your
slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first
believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light."
Hebrews 11 is full of stories of the spiritual "heroes" and patriarchs
from the Old Testament, and about how they rejected the world because
of God's promise. Again, Paul says, "Some faced jeers and flogging,
while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned;
they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went
about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and
mistreated— the world was not worthy of them."
These people knew fully that to cling to the world was death, for the
world and all in it are accursed. And why? The Bible doesn't say
"because they weren't worthy of the world", but rather, because "the
world was not worthy of them." They risked everything of this earth for
an eternal Home. Because of this, Paul writes, God is not ashamed to be
their God, and prepares them a Home.
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From Egypt lately come,
Where death and darkness reign
To seek our new our better home
Where we our rest shall gain.
There sin and sorrow cease
And every conflict’s o’er.
There we shall dwell in endless peace
And never hunger more.
Jerusalem, our happy home
Would God I were in Thee.
Would God my woes were at an end
Thy joy that I might see.
We soon shall join the throng
Their pleasures we shall share.
And sing the everlasting song,
With all the ransomed there.
Jerusalem, our happy home
Would God I were in Thee.
Would God my woes were at an end
Thy joy that I might see.
There in celestial strains
Enraptured myriads sing!
There love in every bosom reigns ,
For God Himself is King !
Jerusalem, our happy home
Would God I were in Thee.
Would God my woes were at an end
Thy joy that I might see.
Jerusalem, our happy home
Would God I were in Thee.
Would God my woes were at an end
With joy at last I see!
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. Dancing rocks. Except for that one dance. Sorry, Jessie. I had to get you back for last time 
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