23rd Week After Pentecost – MONDAY Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts. 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the… Continue reading 23rd Week After Pentecost – MONDAY. “…and he to whom the Son will reveal him”
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22nd Sunday 2008. The Rich Man and Lazarus. Be a good steward.
LISTEN NOW Luke 16:19-31 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich… Continue reading 22nd Sunday 2008. The Rich Man and Lazarus. Be a good steward.
22nd Week After Pentecost – FRIDAY
Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts. Colossians 4:10-18 Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;) 11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto… Continue reading 22nd Week After Pentecost – FRIDAY
I hope this sums it up for you.
“Lord, we ain’t what we want to be; we ain’t what we ought to be; we ain’t what we gonna be, but, thank God, we ain’t what we was.” An American preacher and former slave quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. (gleaned from http://anglicancontinuum.blogspot.com/2008/11/farewell.html) I stress several things over in over in my… Continue reading I hope this sums it up for you.
22nd Week After Pentecost – TUESDAY.
Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts. Colossians 2:20-3:3 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after… Continue reading 22nd Week After Pentecost – TUESDAY.
22nd Week After Pentecost – MONDAY. Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts.
A note to the reader: It is my fervent hope that all readers of these small meditations (among whom, I fervently also hope will be all of my precious flock, who receive them as they are written), will be inspired to meditate upon the scriptures often, reading them daily. I hope that these explanations… Continue reading 22nd Week After Pentecost – MONDAY. Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts.
21st Sun after Pentecost 2008. The Parable of the Sower.
“We can only be good ground if we are crucified with Christ.” LISTEN NOW Galatians 2:16-20 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not… Continue reading 21st Sun after Pentecost 2008. The Parable of the Sower.
21st Sunday after Pentecost, Luke 8:5-15, The Sower
This year, the 21st Sunday after Pentecost is on Oct 27/Nov 9 2008. Luke 8:5-15 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. {6} And some fell upon a rock;… Continue reading 21st Sunday after Pentecost, Luke 8:5-15, The Sower
21st Week After Pentecost – Saturday
Today’s readings, followed by a few pastoral & personal thoughts. 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is… Continue reading 21st Week After Pentecost – Saturday
21st Week After Pentecost – Friday. “being knit together in love”
Today’s readings, followed by a few small pastoral and personal thoughts. Colossians 2:1-7 For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together… Continue reading 21st Week After Pentecost – Friday. “being knit together in love”