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Tuesday - Epiphany 1

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Jesus teaches in Synagogues James Tissot [No restrictions or Public domain], Brooklyn Museum via Wikimedia Commons Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Tuesday after the first Sunday after Epiphany I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth. Isaiah 49:6b  BCP p. 76 Pray this way or this way or this way . Alternatives Today | Tuesday | 10 January 2017 a.d./c.e. Psalm 5 | God is with us even in times of trouble; We will not fear no matter what happens; God inhabits everywhere; God hates evil; Be still and know that I am God. Ephesians 1 | Background (Paul) I have heard of your faith; May God give you wisdom; Know God and God’s hope for us who believe; We know this because of the resurrection of Jesus and his rule with God - they rule all in all. Mark 1 | Background Mark moves us immediately from John the Baptist to ...

Tuesday - Advent 4

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Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Tuesday in the Fourth Week in Advent Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also. Isaiah 45:8, NRSV, EOW 1 Pray this way or this way or this way . Today | Tuesday | 20 December  2016 Psalm 66 Be joyful; Sing to the Lord; Awesome are your deeds; See the works of God; Bless the Lord all people. Revelation 20/21 | More on the apocalypse. I saw a new heaven and new earth- a new holy city; God dwells with us. Luke 1 | Conception of John the Baptizer At a particular point in history, Elizabeth, was predicted to become pregnant; Gabriel - the angel of the Lord - meets with Zechariah while he is doing his holy duties and Gabe tells Zac of his wife’s ...

Monday after Epiphany 1

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Opening Sentence Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Isaiah 60:3 NASA from the Space Station Read | 11 January 2016 | Monday | 1 Epiphany Ps. 1  2  3; Ps. 4  7; Gen. 2:4–9 (10–15) 16–25; Heb. 1:1–14; John 1:1–18 Reflection | Psalm 1  -  Literary type | Wisdom  |  click here Happy are they who have shunned evil and walk in the ways of the righteous; the way of the wicked is doomed. Genesis 2 - In the second story of creation, God becomes a gardener, creates the garden, man and women to live in paradise with God with very few restrictions to live in bliss. Hebrews 1 - In many ways from old, we heard from the prophets of the coming of Jesus, who is God's Son and higher than the angels, endowed with God's power as all children of God. John 1 - God is the light of the world, breaks into the darkness of the world, through the cry of the new born baby but from th...