Morning Mercies by Michael Mullen
A podcast addressing the need for a devotional center in the life of Christian believers. Its structure is a weekly homily released every Sunday, and a shorter devotional over the Psalms that is released every weekday. Created by Michael Mullen, a pastor with 35 years experience in the local church.
Episodes
83 episodes
Daily Psalm: Psalm 60
Some times it seems as if the whole world is arrayed against us. It may also seem that in our troubles God is no where to be seen. Conflict is unavoidable, and we are facing it alone. But are we? David answers this question in Psalm 60, and it ...
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Episode 82
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Teach Us To Pray: Solitude
In the church through the ages, there has been a quiet consensus that without places of solitude in our lives we cannot live a life of prayer, or by extension, the Spiritual life at all. By solitude what is meant is a time and place alone for G...
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Episode 81
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 59
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.<...
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Episode 80
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 58
what happens when mankind, or an individual forgets who they are and assume they are "gods"? It may sound crazy, but it happens all the time, and is everywhere to be seen. When a person says they are accountable to no one, and make themselves l...
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Episode 79
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All-Saints Day Meditation 2022
So often when we are younger, we see life as a filling up. We must get a job. We want to secure for ourselves a place in society. We want to find a spouse, and a place to live. There is nothing wrong with any of these, but we tend to defi...
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Episode 78
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Daily Psalms- Psalm 57
The prayer in Psalm 57 is centered on theGlory of God. The glory of God is virtually impossible to define. In a sense, God’s glory is the magnificence, worth, loveliness, and grandeur of his many perfections. More often, glory communicates God’...
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Episode 77
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Daily Psalm - Psalm 56
In Psalm 56 David overcomes his fear by knowing who is for him in his circumstance, who will preserve him regardless of who against him. That person who is for him is God...What does David know that has taught him that he has no need be fearful...
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Episode 76
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Teach Us To Pray: Beloved
It’s easy to see that a core moment of Jesus public life was his baptism by John, when he heard the affirmation, “You are my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,” or as some translations say, “…on whom my favor rests.” This is the be...
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Episode 75
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 55
In Psalm 55 David is pushed to the very limits emotionally. His enemy has become loud, and they fill the land, making David feel alone. However, it is right at this point where David establishes himself as someone who is not typical, for ...
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Episode 74
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Daily Psalms- Psalm 54
David begins by praying for this situation. He says “save me by your name.” This is a Hebraism, an expression that we may not understand, but is key to David. He is praying not according to any merit within himself, but rather according to the ...
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Episode 72
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Teach Us To Pray: "Our Desire and Our Praying"
This week is a continuation of a series on prayer designed to lead us closer to Christ, As we begin, we ask the Lord to "teach us to pray." It is our first prayer, our beginning. Taken from Luke 11.1, it is a prayer of desire, our desire ...
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Episode 73
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Daily Psalms- Psalm 53
In this psalm, David introduces us to a person that is often talked about in the wisdom literature. You will find him taking center stage in the Proverbs and the Ecclesiastes. He is the fool...The fool is the person who knows what is wrong and ...
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Episode 71
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Daily Psalms: Psalm 52
The contrast between the godless and the godly is cast in the picturesque language of an uprooted tree and a fallen tent. In contrast to Him there is David, who is described as an olive tree in the garden of the Lord. He is flourishing, and is ...
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Episode 70
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Teach Us To Pray- "In the Name of Jesus"
Praying in Jesus’ name means praying in line with the will of God.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know ...
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Episode 69
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 51
Our need of forgiveness from God is supreme of all our needs. It comes with repentance, yet many people today have forgotten what repentance is or looks like. In Psalm 51 King David gives a glimpse of what true repentance looks like in the life...
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Episode 68
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 50
There is an end to all things, and what that may be frightens us. We live amongst a people that has lost its hope, and yet knows that there is a limit to the folly that we are living. What is ahead is terrifying, especially when we remember our...
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Episode 67
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Teach Us To Pray: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation"
The pervasiveness of temptation and the dynamics of sin are subtle in the day to day situations that we face. We live moment to moment and we do not perceive the choices that we stumble into until they are upon us. Rarely do we plan to be tempt...
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Episode 66
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10:42
Daily Psalm: Psalm 49
This is the reality, the big dilemma of our lives: we die. What are we to do with this? The Psalmist says it plainly in Psalm 49: God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. The only one who can save from d...
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Episode 65
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Teach Us To Pray: Forgive Us Our Sins
Someone wise once said that the definition of human should always include something about the need for forgiveness. Certainly it is universal. Everyone of us fail at sometime in our relationships, and the only thing that can keep those relation...
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Episode 64
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Daily Psalms: Psalm 48
I am of the belief that there are places in our lives that are holy, filled with the memory of what God has done for us. Most are particular to us as individuals. Psalm forty-eight speaks of such a place for all of God’s children, that is ...
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Episode 63
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Daily Psalms: Psalm 47
Psalm forty-seven is from its start a call to worship the God who is victorious, and victorious for us. He is the one who chose us, and who works for us. He is our future, and His will alone is certain and will be accomplished. There are two th...
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Episode 62
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Teach Us To Pray- Our Daily Bread
One thing that happens as we begin to pray is that we become intensely aware of our neediness. None of us are an island, and none of us can make it without the help of others. Still, the reality is that there are some needs that are beyond the ...
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Episode 61
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Daily Psalm: Psalm 46
In the midst of such trouble God does not leave us alone, but stands with us, and protects us. To say he is a very present help is to assert that in that place of trial or test, God is there with us. He does not hope the best for us, o...
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Episode 60
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Daily Psalm- Psalm 45
In Israel the monarchy was closly associated with God Himself, for though he had a representative on Earth, a man like David or Solomon, he was their true and only Sovereign. Scholars are split on how to understand Psalm 45, how to ...
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Episode 59
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Teach Us to Pray! "Thy Kingdom Come!"
The idea of Kingdom is somewhat foreign to us who live in the United States, but the core of what is a King is authority. By that what we mean is that their will is asserted as that which is determinative, or decisive. The will of the King in a...
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Episode 58
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