Contemplative Bible Reading

Luke 1:78-79 (New Living Translation) 78 Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, 79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace. Words of poetry and promise too grand to […]

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Luke 24:24 (American Standard Version) And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not. I am using the American Standard Version of the Bible for today’s verse. It has a certain twist to the words that struck […]

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Luke 1:37 (New Living Tranlsation) For the word of God will never fail. Many translations of this verse state: For nothing is impossible with God Nothing is impossible with God. Of course not. I believe that. I guess I believe that. Take a look at the paragraphs preceding verse 37. an old, old woman named […]

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Luke 6:46 (New Living Translation) So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say? In the New Testament, the term “Lord” means about what we think it means these days. My “lord” is someone that I recognize as my master, my teacher, the person above me whom I […]

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Luke 12:14 (New Living Translation) 13 Then someone called from the crowd, “Teacher, please tell my brother to divide our father’s estate with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Friend, who made me a judge over you to decide such things as that?” A man comes to Jesus with a personal problem. The man wants Jesus to solve […]

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Luke 12:1 (New Living Translation) …Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees—their hypocrisy. Jesus is speaking here. What is the yeast of the Pharisees? Many point out that throughout the Bible yeast is often mentioned with sin. Here, however, Jesus mentions a specific failure: hypocrisy. “Those Christians are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.” I heard […]

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Luke 7:33-34 (New Living Translation) 33 For John the Baptist didn’t spend his time eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, ‘He’s possessed by a demon.’ 34 The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and […]

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Luke 11:52 (New Living Translation) “What sorrow awaits you experts in religious law! For you remove the key to knowledge from the people. You don’t enter the Kingdom yourselves, and you prevent others from entering.” Jesus is speaking in this verse. He condemns the religious leaders—those who should be teaching the people about God. Those […]

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Luke 16:15 (New Living Translation) Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God. Put the last sentence of this verse under that tag “#IknowthisfromJesusbutIhateit.” Surely Jesus didn’t know what he was saying. Surely this is […]

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Luke 7:1-5 (New Living Translation) When Jesus had finished saying all this to the people, he returned to Capernaum. 2 At that time the highly valued slave of a Roman officer was sick and near death. 3 When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some respected Jewish elders to ask him to come and […]

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