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22 January 2022

David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.Your glory, O Israel, lies slain upon your high places!    How the mighty have fallen!Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely!    In life and in death they were not divided;they were swifter than eagles,    they were stronger than lions. From 2 Samuel 1:1-4,11-12,17,19,23-27, NRSV For many years, King…
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26 November 2021

As I watched in the night visions,I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven.And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him.To him was given dominion and glory and kingship,that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass…
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27 June 2021

God did not make death,and he does not delight in the death of the living.For he created all things so that they might exist;the generative forces of the world are wholesome,and there is no destructive poison in them,and the dominion of Hades is not on earth.For righteousness is immortal. Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24, NRSV These words were written…
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16 March 2021

He said to me, ‘This water flows towards the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will become fresh. Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish, once these waters reach…
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22 February 2021 Saint Peter’s Chair

Now as an elder myself and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I exhort the elders among you to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you…
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13 February 2021

And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them. Then the Lord God said, ‘See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever’— therefore the Lord…
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12 February 2021

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God say, “You shall not eat from any tree in the garden”?’ The woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said,…
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29 January 2021

Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward. For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Hebrews 10: 32-39, NRSV. It is hard to imagine the type of persecution the early Christians had to endure. Public insult, physical…
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16 December 2020

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return:‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.’ Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,…
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10 October 2020

As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring,…
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