Devotional
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Daily Reading: John 14:5-31 This week we’ve been exploring the call to connect to the world around us in order to pour out the Living Water we have received and to make this world a more beautiful, kind and just place. This call is, in many ways, based on the mysterious reality of the Christian…
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Daily Reading: Luke 4:14-21 Returning from a mission which manifested the power of the Holy Spirit operating in miracles and authoritative teaching, Jesus attended the synagogue in Nazareth and laid out His understanding of the mission God the Father had sent Him on by reading from Isaiah 61:1-2. Luke records the words He read as…
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Daily Reading: Psalm 72 “May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth.In his days may the righteous flourish and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.” ~ Psalm 72:6-7 Psalm 72 is an ancient Israelite prayer for the king. In it, the LORD is asked to pour out blessings…
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Daily Reading: Amos 5 Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! (Amos 5:23-24) As we consider our call to be a blessing, the Word of the Lord brings us back yet again to the image…
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Daily Reading: Genesis 12:1-9 This week our focus shifts to God’s desire that once we have drunk deeply from the well of His Living Water for ourselves, we should turn outward and allow the Living Water to become a river that flows out of us to bring life and beauty and abundance to those around…
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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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