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Christ Redeemer Church exists to honor God by fostering a movement of Christ's Kingdom through the proclamation and practice of the gospel that serves and transforms the Upper Valley, and through the Upper Valley, the world. Find out more about our church at our website: christredeemerchurch.org.

  1. 1d ago

    The Blessing of God

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish writer   “God’s goodness is a communicative, spreading goodness…. If God had not a communicative, spreading goodness, he would never have created the world. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost were happy in themselves and enjoyed one another before the world was. But that God delights to communicate and spread his goodness, there had never been a creation nor a redemption. God useth his creatures not for defect of power, that he can do nothing without them, but for the spreading of his goodness.” ~Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), Anglican-Puritan theologian   “So why did God create? Because God delights to spread His goodness. In other words, He is like a sun of goodness, blazing out with love. God didn’t create because He needed to, because of any lack. He created because He was so happily bursting with goodness. God is so overflowingly, superabundantly full of life in Himself that He delighted to spread His goodness. His innermost Being is a sun of light, life, and warmth, always shining out; radiant and outgoing!” ~Michael Reeves, theology professor and author   “God is wonderfully generous by nature; to give is His delight. His gifts are immeasurably precious and are given as freely as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His own because He wills it, to His redeemed because of His covenant, to the called because of His promise, to believers because they seek it, to sinners because they need it. He gives grace abundantly, seasonably, constantly, readily, sovereignly; the value of the blessings is doubled by the manner in which it is given.” ~C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London preacher   “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” ~Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Irish writer and missionary to India   “The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” ~Helen Keller (1880-1968), author and activist   “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ~Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese writer, poet, and artist SERMON PASSAGE Numbers 6 (NASB95) 24 The Lord bless you, and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine on you,    And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His countenance on you,    And give you peace.’   Psalm 67 (NASB95) 1 God be gracious to us and bless us,   And cause His face to shine upon us—          Selah. 2 That Your way may be known on the earth,   Your salvation among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise You, O God;   Let all the peoples praise You.   4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy;   For You will judge the peoples with uprightness   And guide the nations on the earth.                  Selah. 5 Let the peoples praise You, O God;   Let all the peoples praise You.   6 The earth has yielded its produce;   God, our God, blesses us. 7 God blesses us,   That all the ends of the earth may fear Him. Revelation 7 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; 10 and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”   Revelation 22 1 Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever.   Matthew 28 18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

  2. Jul 26

    The God of Blessing

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “We all are born into the world looking for someone looking for us, and…we remain in this mode of searching for the rest of our lives.” ~Curt Thompson, psychiatrist and author   “Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver (1935-2019), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet   “What you pay attention to shapes what you care about. And what you care about shapes what you become.” ~Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and professor at New York University   “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”  ~Augustine (354-430), North African theologian   “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.” ~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) in “The Weight of Glory”   “There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish writer   “…if we doubt or do not believe that God is gracious to us and is pleased with us, or if we presumptuously expect to please Him only through and after our works, then it is all pure deception, outwardly honoring God, but inwardly setting up self as a false god…. [God] has promised His grace freely, and wills that we begin by trusting that grace, and in it perform all works, whatever they may be.” ~Martin Luther (1483-1546) in his “Treatise on Good Works”   “God wants so much to be trusted.” ~David Wilkerson (1931-2011), Christian leader and founder of Teen Challenge   SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 67 (NASB95) 1 God be gracious to us and bless us,  And cause His face to shine upon us—   Selah. 2 That Your way may be known on the earth,  Your salvation among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise You, O God;  Let all the peoples praise You.   4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy;  For You will judge the peoples with uprightness  And guide the nations on the earth.          Selah. 5 Let the peoples praise You, O God;  Let all the peoples praise You.   6 The earth has yielded its produce;  God, our God, blesses us. 7 God blesses us,  That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.   Numbers 6 (NASB95) 22 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: 24 The Lord bless you, and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; 26 The Lord lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace.’ 27 So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

  3. Jul 19

    Duty. Deliverance. Delight.

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), diplomat, activist, and longest-serving U.S. first lady   “The condition of the Psalmist’s mind was complex—he feared, but that fear did not fill the whole area of his mind.... It is possible, then, for fear and faith to occupy the mind at the same moment. We are strange beings, and our experience in the divine life is stranger still. We are often in a twilight, where light and darkness are both present and it is hard to tell which predominates. It is a blessed fear which drives us to trust. Unregenerate fear drives from God, gracious fear drives to him.” ~Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London pastor   “The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), theologian-pastor, executed for his opposition to the Nazis   Question 1: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.   Question 2: What rule has God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him? Answer: The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.   Question 3: What do the Scriptures principally teach? Answer: The Scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man. ~Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)   “Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” ~Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), Dutch survivor of a Nazi death camp SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 56 (ESV) To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.   1  Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;   all day long an attacker oppresses me; 2  my enemies trample on me all day long,   for many attack me proudly. 3  When I am afraid,   I put my trust in you. 4  In God, whose word I praise,   in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.   What can flesh do to me?   5  All day long they injure my cause;   all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6  They stir up strife, they lurk;   they watch my steps,   as they have waited for my life. 7  For their crime will they escape?   In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!   8  You have kept count of my tossings;   put my tears in your bottle.   Are they not in your book? 9  Then my enemies will turn back   in the day when I call.   This I know, that God is for me. 10 In God, whose word I praise,   in the Lord, whose word I praise, 11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.   What can man do to me?   12 I must perform my vows to you, O God;   I will render thank offerings to you. 13 For you have delivered my soul from death,   yes, my feet from falling,   that I may walk before God   in the light of life.

  4. Jul 12

    When I Am Afraid, I Put My Trust in You

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), theologian-pastor, executed for his opposition to the Nazis   “As long as you have not yet reached Christ, the divine word has only one piece of advice for you: ‘Come nearer; you are not yet in a place of security.’” ~Augustine (354-430), North African church leader and theologian   “When you are being pursued and certain ones are perpetrating slander….do not succumb to weariness, but being confident in the Lord and hymning him, recite the things in [Psalm 56].” ~Athanasius (c. 296-373), theologian and church leader, in his “Letter to Marcelliuns”   “The condition of the Psalmist’s mind was complex—he feared, but that fear did not fill the whole area of his mind.... It is possible, then, for fear and faith to occupy the mind at the same moment. We are strange beings, and our experience in the divine life is stranger still. We are often in a twilight, where light and darkness are both present and it is hard to tell which predominates. It is a blessed fear which drives us to trust. Unregenerate fear drives from God, gracious fear drives to him.” ~Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London pastor   “God hath so great compassion on his servants in trouble that he reckoneth even the steps of their wanderings and pilgrimage, and numbereth all their tears, and keepeth the count thereof, as it were in a register; and therefore every troubled servant of God, when he looks upon his sufferings, should look upon God also taking as particular notice of his troubles as he himself can do.” ~David Dickson (1583-1662), Scottish pastor and theologian   “…is it fair for a loving God to sit on His throne in Heaven and let us struggle and suffer on our own? …It makes perfect sense to me that God decided to come among us, live like us, and die a horribly painful death after being tortured. This is a God I can love with all my heart. A God who sets an example. A God who has bled and whose heart has been broken. This is who Jesus is to me. I don’t pretend that I understand the Holy Trinity. But I understand love and sacrifice. I understand faithfulness.” ~Marina Nemat, author of After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed, former political prisoner and inaugural recipient of the European Parliament’s Human Dignity Award (2008) SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 56 (ESV) To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.   1  Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me;   all day long an attacker oppresses me; 2  my enemies trample on me all day long,   for many attack me proudly. 3  When I am afraid,   I put my trust in you. 4  In God, whose word I praise,   in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.   What can flesh do to me?   5  All day long they injure my cause;   all their thoughts are against me for evil. 6  They stir up strife, they lurk;   they watch my steps,   as they have waited for my life. 7  For their crime will they escape?   In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!   8  You have kept count of my tossings;   put my tears in your bottle.   Are they not in your book? 9  Then my enemies will turn back   in the day when I call.   This I know, that God is for me. 10 In God, whose word I praise,   in the Lord, whose word I praise, 11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.   What can man do to me?   12 I must perform my vows to you, O God;   I will render thank offerings to you. 13 For you have delivered my soul from death,   yes, my feet from falling,   that I may walk before God   in the light of life.

  5. Jul 5

    Our Sovereign Judge and Hope

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He possesses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.” ~Étienne Gilson (1884-1978), French philosopher and historian   “There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.” ~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), writer and scholar   “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice cannot sleep forever.” ~Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), third U.S. President, inscription from the Jefferson Memorial   “God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.” ~Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), polymath and statesman   “…we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~John Adams (1735-1826), second U.S. President   “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” ~H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, scholar, cultural critic and outspoken atheist   “It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.” ~Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), English novelist and playwright SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 33 (ESV) 1 Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!    Praise befits the upright. 2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;    make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3 Sing to him a new song;    play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 4 For the word of the Lord is upright,    and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5 He loves righteousness and justice;    the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.   6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,    and by the breath of his mouth all their host. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;    he puts the deeps in storehouses.   8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;    let all the inhabitants of the world   stand in awe of him! 9 For he spoke, and it came to be;    he commanded, and it stood firm.   10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations   to nothing;    he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,    the plans of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,    the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 13 The Lord looks down from heaven;    he sees all the children of man; 14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out    on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all    and observes all their deeds. 16 The king is not saved by his great army;    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. 17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation,    and by its great might it cannot rescue.   18 Behold, the eye of the Lord   is on those who fear him,    on those who hope in his steadfast love, 19 that he may deliver their soul from death    and keep them alive in famine.   20 Our soul waits for the Lord;    he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart is glad in him,    because we trust in his holy name. 22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,    even as we hope in you.

  6. Jun 28

    Faithful & Sovereign

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “The faith of the church must be tried by God’s word, and not God’s word by the church….” ~Jane Grey (1537-1554), English noblewoman and contested Queen of England   Question 7: What are the decrees of God? Answer: The decrees of God are his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, by which, for his own glory, he has foreordained everything that ever happens. Question 8: How does God carry out his decrees? Answer: God carries out his decrees in the works of creation and providence. ~Westminster Shorter Catechism, Questions 7 & 8   “By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.” ~Francis Collins, Director of Human Genome Research Institute   “...the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same…. Science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a certain moment…. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.” ~Robert Jastrow (1925-2008), first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee, professor at Dartmouth College (1981-1992), and director of Mount Wilson Observatory   “...how surprising it is that the laws of nature and the initial conditions of the universe should allow for the existence of beings who could observe it. Life as we know it would be impossible if any one of several physical quantities had slightly different values.” ~Steven Weinberg (1933-2021), theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate   “God creates, not that there may be witnesses to render Him His due glory, but beings who shall rejoice in it as He rejoices in it Himself and who, participating in His being, participate at the same time in His beatitude. It is not therefore for Himself, but for us, that God seeks His glory; it is not to gain it, for He possesses it already, nor to increase it, for already it is perfect, but to communicate it to us.” ~Étienne Gilson (1884-1978), French philosopher and historian   “The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” ~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), writer and critic SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 33 (ESV) 1 Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!    Praise befits the upright. 2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;    make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! 3 Sing to him a new song;    play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. 4 For the word of the Lord is upright,    and all his work is done in faithfulness. 5 He loves righteousness and justice;    the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.   6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,    and by the breath of his mouth all their host. 7 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;    he puts the deeps in storehouses.   8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! 9 For he spoke, and it came to be;    he commanded, and it stood firm.   10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;    he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,    the plans of his heart to all generations. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,    the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! 13 The Lord looks down from heaven;    he sees all the children of man; 14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out    on all the inhabitants of the earth, 15 he who fashions the hearts of them all    and observes all their deeds. 16 The king is not saved by his great army;    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. 17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation,    and by its great might it cannot rescue.   18 Behold, the eye of the Lord   is on those who fear him,    on those who hope in his steadfast love, 19 that he may deliver their soul from death    and keep them alive in famine.   20 Our soul waits for the Lord;    he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart is glad in him,    because we trust in his holy name. 22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,    even as we hope in you.

  7. Jun 21

    Good Communication

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION “Speech has power. Words do not fade.” ~Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), Polish-born American rabbi and theologian   “Words and ideas can change the world.” ~John Keating, fictional teacher in Dead Poets Society   “Words are loaded pistols.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher, novelist and activist   “Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.” ~Jodi Picoult, best-selling author   “There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.”  ~Proverbs 12:18   “Anxiety in the heart of a man weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad.” ~Proverbs 12:25   “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks…. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” ~Jesus in Matthew 12:34, 36-37   “With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.” ~James 3:9-10   SERMON PASSAGE Ephesians 4:15-16, 25-32 (NIV) Ephesians 4 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work…. 25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body. 26  “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.  29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. 1 Corinthians 13 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.   Romans 3 10 As it is written:    “There is no one righteous, not even one…. 13 “Their throats are open graves;    their tongues practice deceit.”    “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” 14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  8. Jun 14

    A Compelling Prayer

    QUOTES FOR REFLECTION   “Prayer is the way we work our way out of the comfortable but cramped world of self, and into the spacious world of God.” ~Eugene Peterson (1932-2018), American pastor, scholar, author   “Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.”   “Knowing God is more than knowing about him; it is a matter of dealing with him as he opens up to you, and being dealt with by him as he takes knowledge of you.” ~J.I. Packer (1929-2020), a British-born Canadian writer, professor   “God doesn’t want me to play with religion. He doesn’t want me to dabble in church. He wants me—body and soul.” ~R.C. Sproul (1939-2017), American pastor, theologian and writer   “It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God’s face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.” ~John Calvin (1509-1564), French theologian, pastor, writer   “The prayer preceding all prayers is ‘May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.’”   “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be… It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.” ~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British scholar and writer   “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” ~John 17:3 (NIV) SERMON PASSAGE Psalm 139 (NIV) 1 You have searched me, Lord,    and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise;    you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down;    you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue    you, Lord, know it completely. 5  You hem me in behind and before,    and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,    too lofty for me to attain.   7 Where can I go from your Spirit?    Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,    if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me,    your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me    and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;    the night will shine like the day,    for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being;    you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully   and wonderfully made;    your works are wonderful,    I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you    when I was made in the secret place,    when I was woven together    in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;    all the days ordained for me   were written in your book    before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!    How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them,    they would outnumber the grains of sand—    when I awake, I am still with you.   19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked!    Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20 They speak of you with evil intent;    your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,    and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them;    I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart;    test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me,    and lead me in the way everlasting.

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Christ Redeemer Church exists to honor God by fostering a movement of Christ's Kingdom through the proclamation and practice of the gospel that serves and transforms the Upper Valley, and through the Upper Valley, the world. Find out more about our church at our website: christredeemerchurch.org.

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