Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Peter 4:3-4 (New International Version 2011) 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you. I “grew […]

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1 Peter 2:21-23 (New International Version 2011) 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 22 “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.” 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when […]

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Luke 24:1-8 (New International Version 2010) 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the […]

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Luke 7:30 (New International Version 2010) 29 (All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John. 30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.) […]

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Romans 1:5 (New International Version 2010) Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. Fascinating combination of words: obedience faith Faith: I haven’t seen anything from the natural sciences to prove that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, yet I […]

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Matthew 19:29 (New International Version 2010) And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. This is one passage that mentions eternal life. There are many others. Christians through […]

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Luke 13:10-16 (New International Version 2010) 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 […]

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Matthew 16:5-12 (New International Version 2010) 5 When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. 6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.” 8 […]

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Revelation 11:19 (New International Version 2010) 19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm. Here it is, the lost ark of the covenant. It will be in God’s […]

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Matthew 11:4 (New International Version 2010) Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: Some followers of John the Baptizer have come to Jesus. They want to know who he is. He tells them these simple directions. I guess things can become much more complicated if I make them much […]

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