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Day 30 - It's Jesus

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Greg Olson, Take My Hand Prayer Suggestion | We must know how to say, “Thank you”. Our  days are filled with the gifts the Eternal One  showers on us. If we were in the habit of taking  stock of them, at night we should be like a “queen  for a day,” dazzled and happy with so many blessings.  We should then be grateful to God, secure  because God gives us everything, joyful because  we know that every day God will renew God’s gifts. Abbe Michel Quoist | Prayers | © 1963 | ISBN 0-380-00406-2 |  Bible in Time | Thursday | First Full Week in Lent | New Testament Study, Day 30 | It’s 50 - 58 CE/a.d Today 2/25/2021 : Galatians 3 Tomorrow 2/26/2021: Galatians 4 Assignments Calendar +++ Edwards has asked us to pause and read  the Letter to the Galatians.  I am using NOAB5, Galatians, text and  notes as the source of this background for you. Chapter 3 Paul appeals to people that Jesus is the way  and for them not to follow the foolish...

Day 262 - Peter

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St. Peter the Apostle - Museum of the Warsaw Archdiocese Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 | Read the Bible in a Year Come join us at any time!  Let the words of our mouths, and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable to you, O God, our strength and our salvation. Amen Today’s Reading 9/19/2019     Day 262 Mark 7:1 – 8:38 Reflection | Today - Jesus is challenged by church leadership on Tradition vs Belief. Jesus changes the purity tradition - what comes out defiles.  Jesus goes to Tyre hoping not to get noticed and heals a girl following the pleas of a desperate Gentile woman: Jesus heals a deaf man; feed another large crowd of people; Pharisees ask for a sign - Jesus gives no sign - watch out for the Pharisees; Jesus heals a blind man and then asks his disciples who people say he is? Peter you are the Messiah. The Son of Man must suffer - Peter says No - Jesus says yes I will suffer. Take up your cross and follow me...

Thursday - Easter 3

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The Temptation of Christ - Ary Scheffer -1854 Walker Art Center - Wiki Commons Images Highlights, Bible Study & Prayers | BCP Daily Office Reading | Easter | Readings | Biblegateway.com | Today | Thursday | 19 April 2018 Ps 37:1-18; 37:19-42 | Exod. 20:1-21  | Col. 1:24--2:7 | Matt. 4:1-11 Psalm 37 Evildoers will fade like burned grass; Follow the Lord; Wait on the Lord for the wicked will be no more; The Lord keeps the righteous! Colossians 1 |Paul writes to a church; I rejoice in my sufferings for the Body of Christ/the Church; Jesus is the hope beyond all hope that we might be mature in Christ; I want them to have all the spiritual gifts to build the Church; Continue to live your life in Christ Jesus, rooted in the Lord. Matthew 3 Right after His baptism, Jesus like the prophets of old went on a retreat into the Desert and fasted for 40 days; the Devil (the Evil One) gives Jesus three options for an easy life - bread (m...