Contemplative Bible Reading

Amos 6:12 (New Living Translation) 12 Can horses gallop over boulders?Can oxen be used to plow them?But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poisonand the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Amos. And the topic, once again, is justice and righteousness. This […]

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Amos 5:23-24 (New Living Translation) 23 Away with your noisy hymns of praise!I will not listen to the music of your harps.24 Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice,an endless river of righteous living. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Amos. Once again, God wants justice and righteousness. God […]

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Luke 2:8-14 (King James Version) 8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. 10 And the angel […]

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Hosea 7:11-12 (New Living Translation) 11 The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves,first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.12 But as they fly about,I will throw my net over themand bring them down like a bird from the sky.I will punish them for all the evil they do. This […]

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Galatians 3:22 (New Living Translation) 22 But the Scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ. Paul is writing to the churches in Galatia. We are all prisoners of sin. Picture that. Imagine that. There is a prison. I am not […]

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Hosea 6:6 (New Living Translation) 6 I want you to show love,not offer sacrifices.I want you to know memore than I want burnt offerings. God is speaking to the people through the prophet Hosea. The people are “going through the motions” or “checking off the boxes” or some cliche that means, “Hey God, look, we […]

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Mark 1:19-20 (New Living Translation) 19 A little farther up the shore Jesus saw Zebedee’s sons, James and John, in a boat repairing their nets. 20 He called them at once, and they also followed him, leaving their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired men. There were times when it seemed that Jesus […]

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Ezekiel 33:30-31 (New Living Translation) 30 “Son of man, your people talk about you in their houses and whisper about you at the doors. They say to each other, ‘Come on, let’s go hear the prophet tell us what the Lord is saying!’ 31 So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before […]

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Mark 2:8 (New Living Translation) 8 Jesus knew immediately what they were thinking, so he asked them, “Why do you question this in your hearts? This is part of the story of Jesus healing a paralyzed man. “But some of the teachers of religious law” (verse 6) were questioning all of this. Whoa, wait a […]

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