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https://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/gold_bars.html Highlights and Reflections Daily Office Reading from the Book of Common Prayer Week after the Eighth Sunday of Pentecost - Proper 10 Opening Sentence Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, "I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15 Today | Tuesday | 12 July 2016 Ps. 26 28; Ps. 36 39; Joshua 2:15–24; Rom. 11:13–24; Matt. 25:14–30 Psalm 26 But as for me, I walk in my integrity;  redeem me, and be gracious to me; My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation, I will bless the Lord . Joshua 2 Rahab and the spies; they hide and then return to Joshua giving him a positive report. Romans 11 Paul continues … talking of non-Jewish believers being grafted into the vine to grow and flourish. Matthew 25 This s...

Rahab and the Spies By Frederick Richard Pickersgill,  illustrator of the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights and Reflections Daily Office Reading from the Book of Common Prayer Week after the Eighth Sunday of Pentecost - Proper 10 Opening Sentence Thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, "I dwell in the high and holy place and also with the one who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:15 Today | Monday | 11 July 2016 Ps. 25; Ps. 9 15; Joshua 2:1–14; Rom. 11:1–12; Matt. 25:1–13 Psalm 25 | Individual Lament To you O Lord I lift up my soul, hear me, guide me, instruct me, redeem me and Israel; hear my prayer. Joshua 2 Rahab story of faith and protection of her family; spies of Israel are hidden; deal struck for their escape; the spies make the deal acknowl...