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Moses breaks the tablets of the Law - Gustave Doré [Public domain] Wiki Commons Images My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/25/2019     Day 25   Exodus 31:1 - 34:35 Reflection: God consults with Moses for a long time and gives him Tablets with the 10 commandments; the people lose faith for Moses is gone and they create and golden calf to worship; God is mad and disappointed and Moses goes to them and Also get mad and disappointed; Moses breaks the commandments as a sign of broken relationship with God; Moses goes back up to the Mountain to intercedes and talks God through God’s anger; God cools off and renews the covenant and makes new tablets; Moses goes back down to the people and they affirm the covenant as Moses reiterates the way life should be lived. Moses has been hanging around God too much and Moses face glows with the radiance of God. Medi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7bJUX3XhI My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/21/2019     Day 21    Exodus 19:1 - 21:36 Reflection: The people arrive at Mt. Sinai after 3 months journey; After they are consecrated they hear the laws of God concerning community life (the 10 commandments), worship, property (slaves), kinds of murder, and livestock injuries. The code is to repay for exactly for what is wronged (an eye for an eye, etc.) and call it good. Meditation/Contemplate: What are the rules for living in a community?  What is just and fair? How will justice be distributed? God is lawgiver as well as redeemer. Prayer: Keep me mindful of the rule of life that you have for me. May my calling be what you want me to do. May I act out of love in all things. Amen The Next Seven Days of Readings 1/22/2019     Day 22  ...

Hallau (Kanton Schaffhausen), Bergkirche St. Moritz Fenster an der Empore (Christus und Petrus) By Photo: Andreas Praefcke (Own work (own photograph)) via Wikimedia Commons Highlights Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Week after the 19th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 21 Pray Today | Ps. 89:1–18; Ps. 89:19–52; Hosea 2:14–23; Acts 20:17–38; Luke 5:1–11 Psalm 89 I will sing of your love, O Lord and everything you have done; you rule all things; you have created all things; happy are they that walk in your presence. Hosea 2 | Background Hosea uses an image of a marriage between God and the people in order to give them hope in exile; I will bring you back; God - you are my people, people- you are our God. Acts 20 Paul talks to the elders of Ephesus telling them he is bound for Jerusalem and he is proclaiming the Kingdom of God along the way; do your duty as elders and keep watch over the flock and let the Holy Sp...

Read |    Day 264 | Monday | September 21 | Nehemiah 11: 1-36  Nehemiah 12: 1-26  1 Chronicles 9: 2-9, 10-13, 14-34   Date: 445 BC Reading | Nehemiah - leader and volunteers chosen by lot to live in Jerusalem; listing of returning exiles and priests and Levites. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |  Day 265 | Tuesday | September 22 | l ayman.org Nehemiah 12: 27-43, 44– 13: 3  Nehemiah 13: 4-6a  Nehemiah 5: 14-19  Nehemiah 13: 6b-31  Malachi 1: 1, 2-5, 6-14  Malachi 2: 1-9  +++ Read and pray the Daily Office this morning - c lick here Listen and pray the Daily Office this morning - click here Participate and pray the Daily Office at 900 am ET this morning online - click here

Read |    Day 263 | Sunday | September 20 | Nehemiah 8: 13-18  Nehemiah 9: 1-38  Nehemiah 10: 1-29, 30-39  Nehemiah By Russian Icon Painter (Greek and Russian Orthodox Icon) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Date: 445 BC Reading | Nehemiah - Celebration of the Tabernacles, the people confess their sins, You are blessed, O Lord; retelling of the salvation history; an agreement is written and signed by many; vow not to give daughters to foreigners, other promises. Source | Tyndale | The One Year Chronological Bible NIV | ISBN 978-1-4143-5993-9  Next |  Day 264 | Monday | September 21 | Nehemiah 11: 1-36  Nehemiah 12: 1-26  1 Chronicles 9: 2-9, 10-13, 14-34   +++ A Prayer of Self-Dedication Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we pray you, as you will, and ...

Read |    Day 252 | Wednesday | September 9   Ezra 2: 1-70  Ezra 3: 1-7, 8-13  Ezra 4: 1-5  1   Chronicles 3: 19b-24  Background | Ezra - Center for Biblical Studies -  Ezra and Nehemiah tell the story of Israel’s return from Babylonian exile and resettlement in the land. Ezra focuses on the rebuilding of the temple, while Nehemiah focuses on the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. It is fair to say that Ezra is focused more exclusively on religious reform and Nehemiah on political issues. However, these political issues are not at all devoid of some religious dimension—especially since it is impossible to divorce religion and state in ancient Israel. Judging by the names of the Persian rulers mentioned in Ezra-Nehemiah, the events of these books likely took place between 458 BC and 445 BC, with Ezra coming first. Some scholars suggest that Ezra came second, which would move his date to about 398 BC. Either way, Ezra and Nehemiah were c...

Read |   Day 239 | Thursday | August 27 | Lamentations 2: 1-22 Lamentations 3: 1-66 Lamentations 4: 1-22 Background| Center for Biblical Studies | Lamentations | More - Click here Lamentations is a short, anonymous book that is typically associated with the prophet Jeremiah because of its gloomy tone and subject matter: the fall of Jerusalem. This is why the book is found after the book of Jeremiah in the Christian canon. (It is grouped with other books in the Jewish canon.) The fact that 1 Chronicles 35:25 speaks of laments written by Jeremiah “lamenting” for King Josiah further suggests the link between Jeremiah and this book, though not all are convinced. Lamentations is a collection of reactions to the fall of Jerusalem, written in poetic style. Each of the five chapters contains twenty-two verses. This is no accident, for the Hebrew alphabet has twenty-two letters. The first four chapters are written in a style known as acrostic: each verse begins with a successive lett...