Daily Reading: Acts 2:42-47 “46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” This passage describes the earliest Christian Community, freshly filled with the Holy Spirit. The word “Christian” had not yet been created (that only came later in…

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Daily Reading: Mark 3:13-19 By Mark 3, Jesus’ ministry had started to attract such intense opposition that “the Pharisees began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.” (v.6) So Jesus “withdrew with His disciples” (v.7) to Lake Galilee where He entered an intense season of teaching, healing, and driving out “impure spirits”…

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Daily Reading: Psalm 133 Psalm 133 is a “Psalm of Ascents”, which means that it was composed to be sung as a hymn by a group of worshippers headed for the Temple. A group of travellers going up to a Festival in Jerusalem would band together in a travelling “caravan” for the sake of safety…

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1 Samuel 20 Today’s reading gives us an Old Testament example of the sort of covenant “connectedness” to which we are called by God in the Body of Christ. Jonathan was the son of king Saul, and therefore next in line for the throne according to royal custom. David was the young man whom God…

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Daily Reading: Exodus 18 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone… 21 … Select capable men from all the people – men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds,…

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