Contemplative Bible Reading

Leviticus 12:6-8 (New International Version) 6 ” ‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. 7 He […]

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Luke 24:32 (New International Version) They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” This verse comes after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. Two of His followers had walked and talked with him for a while. Once […]

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Luke 7:39 (New International Version) When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.” This strikes me as an odd thing for the Pharisee to say about […]

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Luke 2:28-32 (New International Version) 28Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: 29“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss[d] your servant in peace. 30For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31which you have prepared in the sight of all people, 32a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory […]

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Song of Solomon 1:16 (New International Version) How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant. Verdant. People don’t use words like “verdant” anymore. I had to learn what this meant. Some definitions: Lacking experience or sophistication Naïve Unripe in knowledge or judgment Unsophisticated Raw Green As a verdant youth […]

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Deuteronomy 28 (New International Version) 58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God-… 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations…65 There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, […]

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Luke 24:9-12 (New International Version) 9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the […]

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Luke 22:35 (New International Version) Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. Sometimes we have to experience something to believe it. Jesus had sent out his disciples. When they returned, he asked them the simple question: Did you lack anything? Their answer, […]

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Luke 13:10-14 (New International Version) 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said […]

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Luke 8:39 (New International Version) “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him. I went to a funeral this past week. The deceased – a friend from church – was 44 years old, died of […]

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