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" Gideon thanks God for the Miracle of the Dew ", painting by  Maarten van Heemskerck  ( Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg ) 2024 Read the Bible in a Year February 27, 2024 Readings for Today: Judges 6:1-8:35 Day 58 - God saves the people! Illustrative overview of Judges Prayer: When your Son lived on the earth he gathered the children into his arms and rejoiced in the simplicity of their faith. Give us such faith, that we who are bowed down by doubts and fears we know, deep in our hearts, the truth of your love, and like the children be ready to accept the wonder and mystery of faith without seeking always to understand. Amen. Pat Robson, A Celtic Liturgy, Prayers of Intercession, page 78, © 2008, ISBN 978-0-281-06096-2  Reflection: The people lived in the land the God had given them and began to worship local gods (Baal) other than God. They did evil in God’s sight and by forgetting God, God handed them over to the rulers of Midian and the people of Israel under thei...

Deborah the Prophetess' interpretation by  Gustave Doré Wiki Commons images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 2/26/2019     Day 57   Judges 3:7 - 5:31 Reflection: Background by Center of Biblical Studies. Background by Chabad.org.  Gregory Mobley writes in NOAVB5 - Structure- 1:1- 2:5 | Days after Joshua; tribal fortunes against Canaanites; seems to have a bias toward Judah (southern kingdom) Judges are appointed; story of Othniel - people worshipping the Baals & Othniel brings them back; Ehud- a deliverer, kills the ruler, He takes off; Shamgar - foreign mercenary; Deborah and Barak - only female judge, palace intrigue, victory, Deborah sings. Meditation/Contemplate: How do you help the people to understand God? Prayer: Let the examples of the Judges give us an examples of faith. Amen The Next Seven Days of Readings 2/27/2019 Da...

Highlights from today's Daily Office Readings God has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9 Thursday | 28 July 2016 Ps. [70]  71; Ps. 74; Judges 4:4–23; Acts 1:15–26; Matt. 27:55–66 Psalm 71 You have judged our nation; where are the prophets; please remember your covenant with us Judges 4 Deborah is judge and informs the king of a new conquest; the wife of the king going to be conquered kills her husband with a tent post and spares herself; the Lord is credited for handing this land to the people. Acts 1 Jesus ascends and the disciples go to Jerusalem to wait for the Holy Spirit. Matthew 27 Jesus is buried in a borrowed tomb; guards are placed on it. Tomorrow |  Friday | 29 July 2016 Ps. 69:1–23 (24–30) 31–38; Ps. 73; Judges 5:1–18; Acts 2:1–21; Matt. 28:1–10 Collect of the Day: Proper 12 O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply...

Read |  Wednesday | April 1 | Judges 3:31 – 6:40 Date | From the Conquest to the Kings, the period of the Judges extends some 200 to 300 years. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here   Reading | Judge Shamgar lived and died; Judge Deborah epic story, song, the strength of the Lord will endure, the people reverted to evil in the eyes of God; story of Gideon - presentation of the mission, refusal, encouragement, request for a sign, acknowledge and fear of task, further encouragement - Gideon destroys the alter of a god and destroys it object; war with the Midianites; another sign. Source | The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 4th Edition | (c) 2010, Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19-528955-8 |  click here  | pp. 362 -368 Next |  Thursday | April 2 | Judges 7:1 – 9:21 +++ A Collect for Grace O Lord God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought us in safety to this ne...