Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Timothy 1:7 (New International Version) For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. This seems like an odd trio: power, love, and self-discipline. From dictionary.com Power: ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something. Love: affectionate concern for the […]

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2 Peter 3:3 (New International Version) First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. This struck me as one of those obvious things. Scoffers will come and they will be scoffing. Well, what else what a scoffer do? (By the way, to […]

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Habakkuk 3:17-18 (New International Version) 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I […]

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2 Timothy 1:6 (New International Version) For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. What a great phrase – fan into flame. I have a confession to make, a confession of a 50-something year old man acting like […]

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2 Corinthians 7:6 (New International Version) 6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, In this simple little verse, Paul writes of an occasion when he and some other Christians were downcast – another way of writing that they were a depressed. God gave them some comfort. The form of […]

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Acts 28:4-6 (New International Version) 4When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.” 5But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. 6The […]

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2 Corinthians 7:2-4 (New International Version) 2Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. 3I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die […]

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Acts 16:16-18 (New International Version) 16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, “These […]

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