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Monday, October 25, 2021

FACING EVIL WITH CONFIDENCE

PSALM 83:1-2 (CEV)
Our God, don’t just sit there,
     silently doing nothing!
Your hateful enemies
     are turning against you
     and rebelling.

MATTHEW 6:13
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.


SUMMARY SENTENCE
We can face evil with confidence.

PRAYER
You, God, are a stable wall of protection. Yet sometimes it feels like you let evil take over -- and that's frustrating. I confess that my responses are driven by the crashing wave of the moment and that I don't even try to see things from your eternal perspective. Help me to trust that you are saving us from the time of trial. While your enemies rebel at the thought that they're not going to get what they want, I'm going to trust that you will get what you want -- even in the face of evil. Amen.

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TRANSLATIONS

ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon

CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)

CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)

EEB = EasyEnglish Bible (©2015, MissionAssist)

ERV = Easy-To-Read Version (©2006, World Bible Translation Center)

EXB = The Expanded Bible (©2011, Thomas Nelson Publishing)

GNT = Good News Translation (©1992, American Bible Society)

MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)

NCB = New Catholic Bible (©2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp.)

NCV = New Century Version (©2005, Thomas Nelson Inc)

NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)

NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)

NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)

NRSVue = New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (© 2021 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.)

NTE = New Testament for Everyone (©2011 Nicolas Thomas Wright.)

REB = Revised English Bible (© 1989 Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press)

TCEB = The Casual English Bible (© Stephen M. Miller)

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