This is my first blog composed in my new address to which I moved yesterday. I now live in the coastal village of Monifieth, near Dundee 1 Samuel 16:1-13 This is the first blog composed in my new house in the coastal village of Monifieth near Dundee, to which I moved with my wife Janet, […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: More violence in Egypt 1 Samuel 15:1-23 New English Translation (NET) Saul Is Rejected as King 15 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. […]
1 Samuel 14:16-30 New English Translation (NET) 16 Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another. 17 So Saul said to the army that was with him, “Muster the troops and see who is no longer with […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Medicins Sans Frontieres opens clinic for victims of sexual violence in Papua New Guinea 1 Samuel 13:19-14:15 New English Translation (NET) 19 A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: MORSI ACTED UNCONSTITUTIONALLY SAYS ARMY 1 Samuel 13:1-18 New English Translation (NET) 13 Saul was [thirty] years old when he began to reign; he ruled over Israel for [forty] years. 2 Saul selected for himself three thousand men from […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Egypt on the brink 1 Samuel 12:1-25 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 12 Sh’mu’el said to all Isra’el, “Here, I have done everything you asked me to do — I have made a king over you. 2 There is the […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: AFRICAN LEADERS PLEDGE END TO MALNUTRITION BY 2025: GOAL OR DREAM? Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 11 Then Nachash the ‘Amoni came up and set up camp to fight Yavesh-Gil‘ad. All the men of Yavesh said to Nachash, “If you […]
This blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Huge Crowds challenge Morsi and Islamic Brotherhood 1 Samuel 9:15-10:1 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 15 The day before Sha’ul arrived, Adonai had given Sh’mu’el a revelation: 16 “Tomorrow at about this time I will send you a man from […]
Today’s blog offers a meditation on the Common Lectionary daily readings along with a headline from world news: Dying for it-property boom in Kabul 1 Samuel 9:1-14 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 9 There was a man from Binyamin named Kish the son of Avi’el, the son of Tz’ror, the son of B’khorat, the son of Afiach, the […]
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