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Moses and Ten Commandments 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 25, 2024 +++ Please note! Dear partners in this study.  I have gotten behind in the posting of reflections. I will be back-filling the past few days as I keep up with those who are following the calendar. So I will be doing one posting of the calendar reading and also back-fill the past days that need reflections. Peace+  DE +++  Readings for Today: Exodus 31:1 - 34:35 Day 25 - Blowing It Big Time Prayer: Oh God, we do really blow it sometimes.  We sometimes forget about you. We sometimes think of ourselves more than anything else.  Sometimes we are not very loving to anyone. We humbly pray and ask Your forgiveness.  Give us the ability for us to think beyond ourselves so that we might enjoy the life that you have given us by you being with us, and we being with the world and the people we come in contact with. In the name of Jesus, By DE. Background & Reflections: Well I am glad I am not the only one who “blows it” i

Priestly Garments from Gen. 28 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 24, 2024 +++ Please note! Dear partners in this study.  I have gotten behind in the posting of reflections. I will be back-filling the past few days as I keep up with those who are following the calendar. So I will be doing one posting of the calendar posted reading and also back-fill the past days that need reflections. Peace+  DE +++  Readings for Today: Exodus 28:1 - 30:38 Day 24 - Priesthood Established Prayer: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord.  That it may please You that You set apart good people for ordained ministry who are filled with true knowledge and understanding of Your word and that by their preaching, holy worship, pastoral care for all people, and living a good life are blessed by You.  Care for their families as they journey with these ordained. Amen Adapted from the Book of Common Prayer. Edited by DE. Background & Reflections: Since the gathering of faith communities, there have been people

This is a map of the areas of the greater Middle East where Genesis chapter 10 notes where the groupings of each of the families of Noah's boys - Japheth, Ham, and Shem.  Japheth's family/tribe settles around the area of modern Turkey and west Asia. Shem's family/tribe settles around the area of modern Canann and the Sinai  peninsula. Ham's family/tribe settles in northwestern Africa in the Nile Valley. Source: The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Fifth Edition, p. 23. Picture by DE.

Abraham-Issac-Jacob 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 9, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 24:1 - 25:18 Day 9 - Next Generations of the Promise Prayer: “May God give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” (Psalm 20:4, NIV) Adapted from a devotion online. Basic Reflections: The unfolding of the promises continues with … Abraham tells the servant to find a wife for Isaac. Issac marries Rebekah. Abraham’s second marriage, kids, and death. 12 tribes of Ishmael and his long life. Esau and Jacob are born as twins. Prophesied to be two nations with Esau selling his birthright (Isaac’s blessing.) Question of the Day: Can you see how God has been in your family history? Tomorrow's Readings: Genesis 25:19 - 28:9 +++ 2024 Read the Bible in a Year is a featured Bible Study to inspire spirituality. This plan has been used on The Bible in Time blog site in the past and now includes new material and reflections. From Day 8 in 2019. By Dave Eitland. Free for faith commu

God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice,  Domenichino . 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 8, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 21:1 - 23:20 Day 8 - The Plan Continues Prayer: “May God give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.” (Psalm 20:4, NIV) Adapted from a devotion online. Basic Reflections: God’s plan continues for Abraham: Isaac is born. God's promise is fulfilled. Slave and child are cast out but taken care of by God God tests Abraham re: Isaac Sarah passes  & a long passage on a burial grounds for Abraham’s family Meditation: Abraham’s faith is so deep in God that he is willing to do anything God commands.  Question of the Day: Would we do the same? Tomorrow's Readings: Genesis 24:1 - 25:18 +++ 2024 Read the Bible in a Year is a featured Bible Study to inspire spirituality. This plan has been used on The Bible in Time blog site in the past and now includes new material and reflections. From Day 8 in 2019. By Dave Eitlan

Abraham and Three Angels Jewish Museum 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 7, 2024 +++ Please note! Dear partners in this study.  I need to catch up in the posting of reflections. I will be back-filling the past few days as I keep up with those following the calendar. So I will do one posting of the calendar reading and back-fill the past days that need reflections. Peace+  DE +++ Readings for Today: Genesis 18:1 - 20:18 Day 7 - Promises and the Sage Continues Prayer: O God, whose parental care reaches the uttermost parts of the universe:  We humbly ask you graciously to behold and bless those whom we love, now absent from us.  Defend them from all dangers of soul and body; and grant that both they and we, drawing nearer to you, may be bound together by your love in the communion of the Holy Spirit, and in the gathering of all your saints; through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the holy name of Jesus, Amen Adapted from the Book of Common Prayer, Prayers and Thanksgiving, #52, For the Abse

Family of Abraham nccg.org via Pinterest 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 6, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 15:1 - 17:27 Day 6 - Common Lineage Prayer: Creator God, We pray for our families no matter their situations, friends, neighbors, and those who are alone. For faith communities here and abroad, this nation and the world. For all who work and live for justice, freedom, and peace. For the just and proper use of your creation. For the victims of hunger, fear, injustice, and oppression. For all of these and all the more you see that we need. In the holy name of Jesus, Amen Adapted from the Book of Common Prayer, from closing worship of the Episcopal Parish of Sts. Peter and Paul, Portland, OR, December 2023 Background & Reflections: Contacts or covenants have become a means by which two parties come together and make a series of agreements to bind themselves to make something happen. In Genesis 15, God uses the standard format of a contract of the day so Abe understands th