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Daily Reading: Galatians 2:11-21 In the event Paul writes about in Galatians 2, Peter had fallen prey to the fear of men and their criticism. At this time there were those strongly Jewish Christians (as all the original Christians had been) who firmly believed that to be a Christian one first had to obey the
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Daily Reading: Matthew 12:1-14 In the ten commandments, the LORD blessed His people with the gift of Sabbath rest. Knowing our propensity to anxiety, worry and fear for tomorrow, He went one step further and commanded the blessing of rest by commanding us not to work on one day of the week, the Sabbath. By
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Daily Reading: Psalm 19 How do you come to formulate your beliefs about God? Do you base your beliefs on your personal experience of God? Is the church tradition you grew up with formative for you? Is it a matter of rational deduction from what you observe in the created world around you? Perhaps, you
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Daily Reading: Exodus 4:1-17 As our reading begins, Moses has just been called by the LORD to return to Egypt to confront Pharaoh and to lead the Israelites out of slavery. The interaction that follows between Moses and the LORD (in today’s reading from Exodus 4) shows us clearly how our insecurities and our comfort
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Daily Reading: 1 Kings 18 This week our focus shifts from Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan “Town” to His encounter with the “Theologians” in John 9 – on the occasion of Jesus healing a man born blind. The theologians in question are the local Pharisees on the one hand, and the man born blind on
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Daily Reading: Acts 8:1-25 Once the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the apostles and the early disciples of Jesus, a remarkable change of heart was evidenced. Whereas once these Jewish disciples had shared the general animosity of Jews towards Samaritans and had wanted to call down the fire of judgment on them, now
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Daily Readings: Luke 9:51-56 For the sake of the salvation of people from every tribe, language and nations, Jesus “resolutely set out for Jerusalem” (v.51). The older translations of this verse are more direct and capture the original image of the author with these words, “He steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem” (KJV).
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Daily Reading: Psalm 67 “3 May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you.” When God called Abram to leave his father’s household and his country and to follow God, He promised Abram that “all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3). Now, centuries later, Psalm 67 represents an extended prayer
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Daily Reading: Ezra 4 We continue our readings of passages that give us background insight into the animosity between the Jews and Samaritans in Jesus’ day. This animosity made His gracious ministry to the Samaritan Town of Sychar all the more wonderful. Ezra 4 opens with the returned Jewish exiles attempting to rebuild the Temple
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Daily Reading: 2 Kings 17 This week our attention shifts from Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus, “The Teacher” to the encounter he had with “The Town” in John 4. The encounter happened when Jesus ministered so powerfully to a woman from the town of Sychar in Samaria that she rushed back home and told the townspeople,
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