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https://es.dreamstime.com/foto-de-archivo-gente-joven-que-trabaja-en-vi%C3%B1edos-image60757952 My Quick Bible Study & Prayers Based on Book of Common Prayer Daily Office Readings in the Pentecost Season Opening Sentence | You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. | Ephesians 2:19| 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 | Sunday Psalm 93, 96 & 34 Ecclus. 51:13-22 1 Cor. 14:1-12 Matt. 20:1-16 Psalm 93 | The Lord is King and God is robed in glory. 1 Corinthians 14 | Paul’s discussion on speaking in tongues. Matthew 20 | God’s kingdom and salvation is for all equally no matter when they receive faith and salvation. Jesus uses image of those who are working a vineyard. Tomorrow | Monday Psalm 80 & 77, [79] Joel 1:1-13 Rev. 18:15-24 L...

Reflections on Readings of the Daily Office from the Book of Common Prayer Moses and Aaron speak to the people - James Tissot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Opening Sentence Lord, Open our lips, and our mouths shall Sing forth your praise. Daily Office Readings & Reflections Psalm 31 I have taken refuge in you O Lord; you redeem me; I will rejoice at your mercy; you guide me; I am ill please heal me; You are my God; take me away from those who persecute me and lie about me; You protect your people; I am blessed by God; be strong and take courage for those who wait on the Lord. Exodus 4 Moses argument with God about Moses lack of ability to speak in public; God says God will give him the words but Moses does not want to do it; God gets mad and says to tell Aaron God's words and he will speak them in public; God gives Moses His power through Moses staff; Moses takes his household and returns to Egypt to see his people; his father-in-law bids him to go in peace. Rom...

Read |  Day 326 | Sunday | November 22 1   Corinthians 14: 1-25, 26-40  1   Corinthians 15: 1-11, 12-34, 35-58 Reading | Speaking in tongues and prophecy; orderly worship; resurrection of Christ, the dead, the resurrected body. Next |  Day 326 | Sunday | November 22 1   Corinthians 14: 1-25, 26-40 1   Corinthians 15: 1-11, 12-34, 35-58 +++ Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Collect of the Day: Pentecost, proper 29 Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided...

Read | November 7 Mark 16: 19-20 Luke 24: 50-53 Acts 1: 1-5, 6-11, 12-26 Acts 2: 1-13, 14-41, 42-47  Christi Himmelfahrt by  Gebhard Fugel , c. 1893 Background | Book of Acts | The Center of Biblical Studies | The same author who wrote Luke also wrote Acts. It is “part two” of his account of Jesus and the earliest missionary journeys of Paul and the other apostles. Acts begins with Jesus’ ascension and ends twenty-eight chapters later with Paul under house arrest by Roman guard. All in all, Acts tells the story of how Christianity began with a crucified founder and a handful of followers. In the next thirty years, driven by the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and mainly under Paul’s leadership, Christians brought the Good News of the resurrection of Christ far beyond the land of Judea where it all began. By the time we reach the Acts, the early Christians had seen converts in Asia Minor, Greece, and were knocking on the doorstep of Rome itself. Paul was under h...