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Sarah and Abraham Israel My Glory 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 5, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 12:1 - 14:24 Day 5 - Promises Prayer: Creator God, Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which will have the potential to turn a life around. Make us bearers of this kindness all our days. In the holy name of Jesus, Amen By Leo Buscaglia as posted on Facebook’s Clergy Coaching Network posting. Background & Reflections: We find ourselves at the beginning of one of the greatest stories ever told … God coming to Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah to build a great blessing and the gift of land. God starts by asking Abram to go to a new place and promises blessing. God promises (Gen 12:1-3) that God will make him a great nation, make Abram’s name great, and this action will bless every family on earth. The second promise is that God will give Abram's descendants Canaan. The...

Death of First Born - Travelers of the Middle East Archive Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/18/2019     Day 18    Exodus 7:14 – 12:30 Reflection: The plagues are the scene set today to find - God making a warning, Moses and Aaron deliver it, Pharaoh’s heart is harden, and a decision not to let Israel come into the wilderness to worship God. Every pledge strikes at the comfort of the people of Egypt but Pharaoh can’t possibly let his free labor just leave him. Only when the 10th pledge strike down every Egyptian household does Pharaoh them go. Note the institution of Passover and how that saved Israel for the 10th pledge. It becomes a memory for Israel to remember about their liberation done each year to remember the great acts of God. Meditation/Contemplate: How are people’s hearts “harden” against God now and how to we hel...

Moses and Pharoah - Arkadi Natanov- 1993 Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/17/ 2019    Day 17    Exodus 5:1 – 7:13 Reflection: God and Pharaoh begin the power struggle over the people of God. Moses for God asks Pharaoh to let the people go. Not only does he refuse but does not give them any materials thus doubling the work. The people complain to Moses, Moses complains to God, but God affirms God’s plan for the people. “I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. I will take you as my people, and I will be your God.” There then is a genealogy in case we forgot who God was saving and the family of Moses and Aaron. The Lord empowers Aaron to do acts and wonders just with his walking stick. We are reminded God does NOT care how old you are to do God’s plan of liberation. Moses = 80 yrs. Aaron = 83 y...

Jesus the Teacher By Phillip Medhurst (Photo by Harry Kossuth) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons Opening Sentence Lord, Open our lips, and our mouths shall Sing forth your praise. Daily Office Readings & Reflections Read Today Tuesday | 15 March 2016 Ps. [120] 121 122 123; Ps. 124 125 126 [127]; Exod. 5:1—6:1; 1 Cor. 14:20–33a 39–40; Mark 9:42–50 Psalm 121 Let us go to the house of the Lord; Pray of the peace of Jerusalem; I will seek to do you good. Exodus 5 Moses tries to negotiates with Pharaoh; Pharaoh instills harsh punishment; God says watch and see. 1 Corinthians 14 Paul continues to outline to the Corinthians the way to conduct worship. Mark 9 What cause you to be weak? Get rid of it.; be like salt with flavor. Tomorrow Read Wednesday | 16 March 2016 Ps. 119:145–176; Ps. 128 129 130; Exod. 7:8–24; 2 Cor. 2:14—3:6; Mark 10:1–16 Collect of the Day:  Th...

Opening Sentence Jesus said, "If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."  |  Mark 8:34 Read Today Sunday | 21 February 2016 | Second Sunday in Lent Ps. 24, 29; Ps. 8, 84; Gen. 41:14–45; Rom. 6:3–14; John 5:19–24 Psalm 24 |  Literary type | Liturgy or Misc.  |  click here The earth is the Lord's and all there in; Who is the King of Glory? Click here Genesis 41 Pharaoh brings Joseph out of prison and when Joseph is cleaned up is brought before the King -   King retells of his dreams; Joe says it is one dream brought to him from God and God will let Joseph interpret them for the King; Joseph tells of God's prediction of 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine; the King appoints Joseph as #2 over all of the Kingdom and to be the steward with total authority of Pharaoh.  Romans 6 We were baptized into the death of Christ so now we have risen into new life with him; d...

Read |  Day 36 | Thursday | February 5 | Exodus 13:1 - 15:27 Dates | 1446 or 1280 BC Reading | Consecration of first born; God leads the throng of Israel toward the Red Sea to avoid war with the king of Egypt; Army goes after them; Escape through the Red Sea; pillar of cloud and fire following no blocks Egypt; escape through sea - Egypt follows and is drowned; Moses sings of deliverance; Miriam signs with the women; clean water Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here   | pp. 135 - 140 Next |  Day 37 | Friday | February 6 | Exodus 16:1 - 19:25 +++ A Collect for Guidance Heavenly Father, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you, but may remember that we are ever walking in your sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Morning: In Places of Political Unrest ...