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Wedding at Cana Carl Heinrich Bloch [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Days of Lent Rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and repents of evil. | Joel 2:13|  BCP p. 76 Pray this way or this way or this way or this way or this way . Alternatives Readings Today | Monday | 6 March  2017 Ps. 41, 52; Ps. 44; Deut. 8:11–20; Heb. 2:11–18; John 2:1–12 Psalm 41 | Song of Thanksgiving - Background Happy are those that consider the poor and needy for God will have mercy; My friends speak against me and devise evil against me; They have all left me; I ask to be redeemed; Blessed be God for ever. Hebrews 2 God makes us holy and we all have one Father and we believers are all one; Jesus destroyed the power of death; God helps ...

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/53621051785398880/ Highlights and Reflections Daily Office Readings - Book of Common Prayer Opening Sentence I was glad when they said to me,"Let us go to the house of the Lord."  Psalm 122:1 Pray Psalm 88 Lord, hear my prayer for I am in trouble; I am like in prison, but you will save me. Judges 9 Ambimileck consolidates his power by slaughtering 70 rivals; his brother flees in fear for he prophesied against him. Acts 4 Peter and John preached with boldness and healed; the religious leaders said don't do that; they left there and told the community of believers what had happened; they prayed to be able to proclaim in boldness; the earth shook and they all received the Holy Spirit and proclaimed Jesus in boldness. John 2 Jesus performs his first miracle at a wedding where he turns water into hundreds of gallons of wine after his mother complained to him. Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the...

Read | Day 270 | Sunday | September 27 | Mark 1: 12-13 Matthew 4: 1-11 Luke 4: 1-15 John 1: 19-28, 29-34, 35-51 John 2: 1-12, 13-25 By COPTS (Own work)  [CC BY-SA 3.0  (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Background | John | The Center for Biblical Studies |  John’s Gospel is quite different from the synoptic Gospels, both in terms of content and style. In fact, most of what John reports is not found in the other three Gospels. Where there is some overlap (for example, especially in the arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus) John’s scenes are still entirely his own. This raises the obvious question of how and why John is so unique. The three “synoptic Gospels” certainly have distinctive elements, but all three basically tell the same story of Jesus in its rough outline. John, however, reports Jesus going places, doing things, and saying things that are not found elsewhere in the New Testament. Scholars are in general agreeme...