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bible blog 1048
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily radings along with a headline from world news: Is a savage beheading worse than drones? Deuteronomy 1:1-8 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE) Events at Horeb Recalled 1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan—in the wilderness, […]
bible blog 1047
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Obama defends USA right to kill by drone Luke 14:1-11 New International Version (NIV) Jesus at a Pharisee’s House 14 One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being […]
bible blog 1046
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF MOORE, OKLAHOMA Luke 13:18-30 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 18-19 Then he went on, “What is the kingdom of God like? What illustration can I use to make it plain to you? […]
Bible blog 1045
CHURCH OF SCOTLAND AFFIRMS TRADITIONAL VIEW OF SEXUALITY BUT PERMITS THE MINISTRY OF ACTIVE HOMOSEXUALS LUKE 13: 10-17 Jesus reduces the sabbatarians to silence 10-12 It happened that he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. In the congregation was a woman who for eighteen years had been ill from some […]
bible blog 1044
Thi blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: 60th anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing’s Everest Climb Luke 13:1-9 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) Jesus is asked about the supposed significance of disasters 13 1-5 It was just at this moment that some people came up to tell […]
bible blog 1043
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Vermont USA approves Right to Dignified Dying Hebrews 8:1-13 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) Christ our High Priest in Heaven is High Priest of a new agreement 8 1-3 Now to sum up—we have an ideal High Priest such […]
bible blog 1042
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Venezuela will wipe out toilet paper shortage by emergency imports Luke 10:25-37 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) Jesus shows the relevance of the Law to actual living 25 Then one of the experts in the Law stood […]
bible blog 1041
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Palestinians remember the naqba (conquest by Israel) by renovating a destroyed township at Iqrit, North Israel. I’ve placed this excerpt from Hebrews 5 here because today’s reading is incomprehensible without it. (A High Priest must be duly […]
bible blog 1039
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily reading along with a headline from world news: Pope canonises 800 15th cent. Otranto martyrs who refused to convert to Islam Hebrews 6:1-12 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) Can we not leave spiritual babyhood behind—and go on to maturity? 6 1-3 Let us leave behind […]
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