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http://resizeandsave.online/openphoto.php?img=http://www.stephenricker.com/study/zechariah/jesus_teaching_on_mountain.jpg Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Book of Common Praye r | Daily Office Readings Days of Pentecost 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 | Enriching Our Worship 1, p.18 Pray this way or this way or this way or this way or this way . Alternatives Readings Today | Friday | 11 August 2017 Ps. 88; Ps. 91 92; 2 Samuel 12:1–14; Acts 19:21–41; Mark 9:14–29 Psalm 88 | Background O Lord my savior, I cry to you; I am near death; I am in the pit; I call upon you daily; Who will tell about you when I am dead? Why have you rejected me? I really don’t understand ... Acts 19 | Paul - Stayed in Asia; The Way was attached by the people who made their trade idols and the success of the Wa...

Read |  Day 315 | Wednesday | November 11 | Acts 10: 1-8, 9-33, 34-43, 44-48  Acts 11: 1-18, 19-30  Acts 12: 1-5  Date: about 41 a.d. In this painting by  Gerbrand van den Eeckhout  an angel  appears to the Roman centurion Cornelius.  The angel tells him to seek out St. Peter.  The Walters Art Museum. Reading | An angel appears before a devout centurion named Cornelius to send for Peter; Peter sees vision that all created by God is clean and humanity should not say that it is; Peter - God shows no favoritism but accepts everyone from every nation who has faith; Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit; Peter reports back to the church in Jerusalem the great things happening; Church sends Barnabas to Antioch and picks up Paul in Tarsus; King Herod sends out a persecution of the Church; he kills James, the brother of John killed and arrested Peter and placed him in prison. Next |  Day 316 |Thursday | November 12 | Acts 12: 6-19a, 19b-24, 25–...