For we hold that a person is justified by faith apart from works prescribed by the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one; and he will justify the circumcised on the ground of faith and the uncircumcised…
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Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. From 2 Timothy 4:10-17, NRSV Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Luke – the author of the Gospel carrying his name and also widely considered as the…
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, ‘The one who is righteous will live by…
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Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be Son of God with power according to…
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On that daythe mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk,and all the stream beds of Judah shall flow with water;a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Wadi Shittim. From Joel 4:12-21, NRSV In yesterday’s reading we heard the prophet Joel giving warning of an impending…
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Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar.Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God!Grain-offering and drink-offering are withheld from the house of your God. From Joel 1:13-15,2:1-2, NRSV Following the devastating effects of the visitation of a plague of locusts and a period of drought on the…
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Then those who revered the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord took note and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who revered the Lord and thought on his name. They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as parents spare their…
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And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.’ And the Lord said, ‘Is it right for you to be angry?’ Then Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in…
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Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, ‘Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!’ And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. From…
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For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed…
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