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Day 59 - Judges and Cycles of War

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Abimelech from  Guillaume RouillĂ© 's  Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum 2024 Read the Bible in a Year February 28, 2024 Readings for Today: Day 59 - Judges 9:1 - 12:15  Map of time of Judges Prayer: Loving God, dissolve the barriers of suspicion that divide us from one another. Fill us with your love that casts out fear. Clothe us in your light and grace, that we may be agents of hope and encouragement for those that despair and have lost their way. Help us each to find our own particular way in which to proclaim the good news of your saving love in our daily life and work. We pray for our government and for our leaders at every level of authority, that they may be strengthened to heal the structures that bruise your people. God, hear our prayers. Amen (All Saints Episcopal Church - Pasadena prayers - 27 Oct 2019 worship) Reflection:  We continue with the cycle of God saving the people. The people fall away from God and worship local deities. God lets the local warlord...

Sunday - Pentecost - Proper 19

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A frightened and an angry face left and right respectively. Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun; 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 | Amazing Grace Daily Office Prayers | Pray this way or this way or this way or this way or this way . Alternatives worship Readings | Biblegateway.com | Sunday Psalm 24, 29 & 8, 84 Job 38:1, 18-41 Rev. 18:1-8 Matt. 5:21-26 Psalm 24 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfgTI1lsMQ Revelation 18 | Image of last judgment or fall of Rome | Babylon has fallen! Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins, and so that you do not share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven,    and God ha...

Thursday - Pentecost 25 - Proper 27

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The Return of the Prodigal Son BartolomĂ© Esteban Murillo  [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Highlights & Mini-Bible Study Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer | last century publication Week after the 25th Sunday after Pentecost - Proper 27 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” Psalm 122:1 Pray this way or this way or this way . Today | Thursday | 10 November 2016 Ps. [83] or 23 27; Ps. 85 86; Joel 2:21–27; James 1:1–15; Luke 15:1–2 11–32 Psalm 23 The Lord is like a shepherd to me who protects me; In all times and places, God is with me; The heavenly banquet will be wondrous; God is with me forever! James 1 | Background Persecuted? Thank God for the opportunity to deepen your faith under hardship; Endurance in the trials and bad in life can deepen your faith. Luke 15 Jesus is criticized for being with sinners and tells the story of a father and two sons; The younger - demands inheritance, blow...

Sunday - Pentecost 17 - Proper 19

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Highlights Daily Office Readings | Book of Common Prayer Pray Psalm 24 The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it; everything is God's for the Lord made it; Who can come to this pure place - those that are pure and have faith; Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty! Revelation 18 John sees another angel who declares the judgement of the sin of a Babylon for they have sinned in luxury; she will be judged and burned.  Matthew 5 Jesus continues his reinterpretation of scripture in the Sermon on the Mount - reconcile with your brother before you come and worship and pray so that their judgement does not come upon you. Prayers The Lord's Prayer or  traditional music:  video  |  choir Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your Name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Save us from the time of trial, and deliver us...