This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news “Disappeared” girl was given by Mexican care officials to dangerous Christian sect Corinthians 5:9-6:11 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged 9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: AURORA BOREALIS NEAR TROMSO, NORWAY 1 Corinthians 5:1-8 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) 5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: SYRIAN REFUGEES NEED NEW CAMP IN JORDAN I CORINTHIANS 4: 6-15 I’ve illustrated this argument for you, brothers, with the example of myself and Apollos, so that you may learn through us, that nobody should inflate the […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Tony Benn, champion of radical community, dies 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 Contemporary English Version (CEV) 16 All of you surely know that you are God’s temple and that his Spirit lives in you. 17 Together you are God’s holy temple, […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: KIEV SEES RUSSIANS AS NAZIS 1 Corinthians 2:14-3:15 Good News Translation (GNT) 14 Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God’s Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Vigil of relatives of Malaysian plane passengers continues 1 Corinthians 2:1-13 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) I came to you in God’s strength not my own 2 1-5 In the same way, my brothers, when I came to proclaim […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: CHILEAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES SYMBOL OF POWER FROM DAUGHTER OF MURDERED PRESIDENT ALLENDE IST CORINTHIANS 1: 20-31 The message of the cross is daftness to those who are dying, but to those who are being rescued; it is […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a healine from world news: ASHTON AND ROHANI SEEK PEACE FOR IRAN 1 Corinthians 1:1-19 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 1 1-3 Paul, commissioned by the will of God as a messenger of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, a Christian brother, to the church of […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: VITALI KLITSCHKO STAYS SANE AND BIDS FOR POWER IN UKRAINE Philippians 4:1-19 New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) 4 1 Therefore, my brothers and sisters,[a] whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: SYRIAN CHEMICAL ARSENAL GONE BY END OF APRIL Philippians 3:12-21 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 12-14 Yet, my brothers, I do not consider myself to have “arrived”, spiritually, nor do I consider myself already perfect. But I keep […]
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