This Weeks Lectionary Reading Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45c Confitemini Domino 1 Give thanks to the Lord and call upon his Name; *make known his deeds among the peoples. 2 Sing to him, sing praises to him, *and speak of all his marvelous works. 3 Glory in his holy Name; *let the hearts of those who […]
Psalm 124Nisi quia Dominus1 If the Lord had not been on our side, * let Israel now say;2 If the Lord had not been on our side, * when enemies rose up against us;3 Then would they have swallowed us up alive * in their fierce anger toward us;4 Then would the waters have overwhelmed us * and the
13 If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don’t
Reflections on Proverbs 10, Wisdom, Speech, and the Kind of Person We Are Becoming I was reading Book of Proverbs chapter 10 because I saw a verse quoted in one of Howard Partridge’s books. It was Proverbs 10:22, and the NIV translation was used: “The blessing of the Lord brings wealth,without painful toil for it.”
From You Are The Beloved “I am increasingly convinced that it is possible to live the wounds of the past not as gaping abysses that cannot be fulfilled and, therefore, keep threatening us as gateways to new life. The ‘gateless gate’ of Zen and the ‘healing wounds of Christ’ both encourage us to detach ourselves
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Thanksgiving for Rescue from Death — Psalm 116 I love this psalm. Honestly, I wish I could sit down and talk with the author. Because this doesn’t read like theology. It reads like surviving a near death experience. It sounds like a man who thought he was about to die… and didn’t. Look at the
Deuteronomy 26:16–19 16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to perform these statutes and ordinances. Therefore you shall be careful to perform them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes,
Our Entire Walk In 8 Verses 10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the
Psalm 1 Beatus vir qui non abiit – Blessed is the man who did not walk 1 Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, * nor lingered in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seats of the scornful!2 Their delight is in the law of the Lord, * and they
A meditation on 2 Peter 1:16–21 A quiet Christian meditation on 2 Peter 1:16–21, exploring Christ as light in darkness and what it means for the Morning Star to rise in the human heart. Faith Grounded in Encounter, Not Myth Peter says something in this passage that feels both simple and mysterious at the same
