Contemplative Bible Reading

1 Samuel 30:3-6 (New Living Translation) 3 When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, 4 they wept until they could weep no more. 5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured. 6 David was now […]

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1 Samuel 24:13 (New Living Translation) As that old proverb says, ‘From evil people come evil deeds.’ So you can be sure I will never harm you. This strikes me as a quote from the movie “Forest Gump.” That is not quite correct, but similar. If you see a person performing evil deeds, that person […]

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1 Samuel 23:15-18 (New Living Translation) 15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him. 16 Jonathan went to find David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith in God. 17 “Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My […]

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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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Mark 9:38 (New Living Translation) John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he wasn’t in our group.” And so it began or so it continued. John, he is the culprit here but it could be me, divides people into them […]

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Mark 9:30-31a (New Living Translation) 30 Leaving that region, they traveled through Galilee. Jesus didn’t want anyone to know he was there, 31 for he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them. Jesus wanted more time so that He could teach his followers. As the pendulum swings in Christianity in this […]

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Mark 7:1-5 (New Living Translation) 1 One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus. 2 They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating. 3 (The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over […]

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1 John 2 (New Living Translation) 15 Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in […]

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