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Thursday - Pentecost - Proper 20

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wiki commons images My Quick Bible Study & Prayers Based on Book of Common Prayer Daily Office Readings in the Pentecost Season Opening Sentence | Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14 | BCP p. 78 | Daily Office Prayers | Pray this way or this way or this way or this way or this way . Alternatives worship Readings | Biblegateway.com | Thursday Psalm [83] or 116, 117 & 85, 86 Esther 7:1-10 Acts 19:11-20 Luke 4:14-30 Psalm 117 | Praise the Lord; God is faithful forever Acts 19 | God did extraordinary miracles through Paul. Some exorcists tried using the name of Jesus but did not know Jesus. Magic books were burned - they were at great value. Luke 4 | Jesus went to do teaching in Galilee; he went to Nazareth and went to church and read from Isaiah bringing Good News; they got mad at what he said as Jesus said he was with God...

Tuesday after the Fourth Sunday in Lent

Reflecting on the Daily Office readings for today. Opening Sentence Jesus said, "If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." + Mark 8:34 Prayer Sites | Click here | Pray daily! Read Today Tuesday | 1 March 2016 | Ps. 78:1–39; Ps. 78:40–72; Gen. 45:1–15; 1 Cor. 7:32–40; Mark 6:1–13 Psalm 78 Learn the teachings of God; we will tell them to all generations; teach your children; so they can tell them to their children; do not forget what God has done and the story of salvation with miracles and wonders; God provided for all their needs. Do not be faithless like those in the past; God is merciful. Genesis 45 Joseph can not contain himself anymore and reveals himself to his brothers and forgives them; he tells how God has taken his tragedy in order to save the entire nation from starvation; he gives his people the land of Goshen to live and prosper, and the nation moves to Egypt. 1 Corinthians 7 Paul continues his te...

Day 197 - Thursday after the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

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Read |  Day 197 | Thursday | July 16   Isaiah 18: 1-7  Isaiah 19: 1-25  Isaiah 20: 1-6  Isaiah 21: 1-10, 11-12, 13-17  Isaiah 22: 1-14, 15-25  Isaiah 23: 1-18  Date | Isaiah's prophecies against this readings towns may have been given between 714 - 701 BC. Background |  It now seems clear that all the Hebrew Bible received its final shape in the post-exilic, or Second Temple, period. … The earliest of the great prophets, Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah , lived in the eighth century. The book of Isaiah , however, includes not only oracles from the original prophet, but much material that was clearly composed after the Babylonian exile. (Accordingly, Isaiah 40–66 is called Second, or Deutero-, Isaiah, and chapters 56–66 are sometimes further distinguished as Third, or Trito-, Isaiah, although, as far as we know, there was only one prophet named Isaiah.) The books of the prophets were all edited in the Second Temple period, although we can...