Contemplative Bible Reading

This post is out of the ordinary in several ways: I am posting it the day I write it It is neither a Saturday nor a Sunday It is not based on a single passage Yesterday, my 12-month-old grandson James fell ten or twelve feet from the loft in the apartment where he lives with […]

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Acts 4:25-26 (New International Version) from Psalms 2 25You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: ” ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 26The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed […]

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Proverbs 18:18 (New International Version) Casting the lot settles disputes and keeps strong opponents apart. I read this week as well. It was another of those, “What does this say? This must be a misprint!” The writer of this proverb is telling me to “roll the dice” or “cut a deck of cards” to settle […]

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Acts 8:4 (Revised Standard Version) Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Now this is making the best of a bad situation. These people were really scattered. Saul and others were chasing them down to kill them. They had lots of motivation to scatter far, wide, and quickly. This was a bad […]

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Acts 15:19 (New International Version) “It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. James is speaking here to the Council at Jerusalem.  Some of the new Jewish Christians wanted the Gentile Christians to learn all of the old Jewish law as part of […]

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Acts 26:8 (New International Version)Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead? I will take the liberty of re-phrasing this verse: Why should anyone consider it incredible that God (fill in the blank) Well, what is beyond God’s power? What should we consider incredible for God to do. In one […]

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