Monthly Archives: June 2015

Life happens here yet again…

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

At Trinity Reformed Church, Edgewood, New Mexico, we have some kids in our services. All of our kids. And we delight in that. Sometimes there are disruptions because of our kids. When that happens, I am likely to say “Life … Continue reading →

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Things they didn’t teach me in seminary…

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

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Posted on June 15, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

The LORD is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. Psalm 129:4 When the wicked have ploughed as much of God’s husbandry, as he thinketh good to suffer them, then he stoppeth their designs and looseth their … Continue reading →

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Heirloom and ensign…

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Persecution is the heirloom and ensign of the church. CHS

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They are but barren grass…

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Provided we not only dwell in the Church of the Lord, but also labor to have a place among the number of her genuine citizens, we will be able fearlessly to despise all the might of our enemies: for although … Continue reading →

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Sorrow and Resolve…

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

It is a mingled hymn of sorrow and strong resolve. CHS on Psalm 129

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The plough of persecution…

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

The plowers plowed on my back; They made their furrows long. Psalm 129:3 The Lord usually suffers his enemies to break up the fallow ground of his people’s proud and stiff hearts with the plough of persecution, and to draw … Continue reading →

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No small consolation…

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Martin Luther, A Commentary on the Psalms Called Psalms of Degrees, 325

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Exhortation to patience…

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

Luther on Psalm 129… [C]ontain[s] an exhortation to patience under the cross, which pertaineth not to one age or time, but as the continual history of the church doth shew, to all times and to the whole life of man. Martin … Continue reading →

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Worthy of special notice…

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Tom Brainerd

It is a point worthy of special notice, that the welfare of the church is inseparably connected with the righteousness of God. Calvin, Commentary on the Book of Psalms, V:124

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