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Family of Abraham nccg.org via Pinterest 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 6, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 15:1 - 17:27 Day 6 - Common Lineage Prayer: Creator God, We pray for our families no matter their situations, friends, neighbors, and those who are alone. For faith communities here and abroad, this nation and the world. For all who work and live for justice, freedom, and peace. For the just and proper use of your creation. For the victims of hunger, fear, injustice, and oppression. For all of these and all the more you see that we need. In the holy name of Jesus, Amen Adapted from the Book of Common Prayer, from closing worship of the Episcopal Parish of Sts. Peter and Paul, Portland, OR, December 2023 Background & Reflections: Contacts or covenants have become a means by which two parties come together and make a series of agreements to bind themselves to make something happen. In Genesis 15, God uses the standard format of a contract of the day so Abe understands th...

Noah's Ark  Dreamstime 2024 Read the Bible in a Year January 3, 2024 Readings for Today: Genesis 6:1 - 9:17 Day 3 - Flood and Noah Prayer: Creator God, Thanks for the rainbows and promises, Waters and lands, And creatures in the water and on the land. Wake us up to our responsibility for the care of this earth before we lose it to our neglect. As you have blessed us so may we bless this small island we call home and earth. In the name of Jesus, Amen Background: The story today has many themes. Some are creation, God, humanity, behavior of humanity, consequences, family, promises, second chances, making things new, etc. Humanity has blown it in the eyes of God’ post-garden of Eden. It has gotten so bad that God will wipe it out but not entirely. Noah is a righteous man and will be spared from this judgment with his family. The story's details are like any great saga…destruction is coming, Noah is spared, a large boat is built, a cubit is 18 inches (45 cm), and pairs of animals...

Jesus finds the Lost - Gary Olson https://www.godisreal.today/pictures-of-jesus/ My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Using The NRSV Daily Bible Today’s Reading 1/11/2019     Day 11    Genesis 28:10 - 30:43 Reflection Jacob dreams and then meets his wives in a convoluted deal that his father-in -law. Have you had a dream where God shows up beside you to tell you of the destiny of your family and lineage? The awe struck nature of that happening! But God does stand by us at every moment and is with us. Emmanuel … God with us. Oh the blessings of a wife in a life when a relationship is committed and works. (And I have had it for 40 years.) Meditation: God is with me and stands with me at all times. Prayer: Remind me God that you are with me all of the time. Let me not forget your presence in my life. Amen Thank you for giving me Katheryn. Amen The Next Seven Days of Readings 1/12/2019 ...

Opening Sentence From the rising of the sun to its setting my Name shall be great among the nations, and in every place incense shall be offered to my Name, and a pure offering; for my Name shall be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.  + Malachi 1:11 Read | Friday | 29 January 2016 | Ps. 40 54; Ps. 51; Gen. 17:15–27; Heb. 10:11–25; John 6:1–15 Reflection | Psalm 40  -  Literary type | Mixed  |  click here . The Lord put a new song in my mouth; happy are they who trust in the Lord; God is faithful and compassionate; I am a sinner but the Lord delivers me. Genesis 16 - Abraham is 100 years old when God talks to him again about fulfilling the covenant in Issac to be new born son; Abe laughs; God is patient; Abraham  circumcises  his entire male community as a sight of the faithfulness to the covenant.  Hebrews 10 - Jesus offered a single  sacrifice  for all; I will remember their sin n...

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 148 | Thursday | May 28   Proverbs 5: 1-23  Proverbs 6: 1-35  Proverbs 7: 1-27  Background | Center for Biblical Studies | Proverbs |  Click here Reading | Watch out for impurity and infidelity; do what you say you are going to do; keep your pledges and promises; more warnings about infidelity. Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 |  Click here   Source | biblegateway.com |  click here Next |  Day 149 | Friday | May 29   Proverbs 8: 1– 9: 12  Proverbs 9: 13-18  Proverbs 10: 1-32 +++ Listen and pray the morning office from the Episcopal Church in Garrent County (MA - USA ) via Mission St Clare - Click here