1 December 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Luke 7:36-50: The Joy of Being Forgiven36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38 She stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the ointment. 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him (...)
1 November 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Luke 3:7-22: Judgment is coming.... or is it?7 John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ’We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 9 Even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” 10 And the crowds asked him, “What then (...)
1 October 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Exodus 34:1,4-10: A Liberating CovenantThe Lord said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you broke. [...] So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the former ones; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.” The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, (...)
1 September 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)John 16:19-22: Sadness and JoyJesus said to his disciples: “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I (...)
1 August 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)John 7:37-39: Rivers of Living WaterOn the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within him.” By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7:37-39)
In a letter to young people written by Brother Alois some years ago, we find the following (...)
1 July 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Luke 6:27-36: Merciful in the Image of GodJesus said: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if (...)
1 June 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Jeremiah 29:1-14: A Future of HopeThis is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. (This was after King Jehoiachin and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.) He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, (...)
1 May 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Isaiah 55:6-9: A God of MercySeek the Lord while the Lord may be found; call on God while God is near. Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn back to the Lord, who will have mercy on them, to our God, who will freely pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:6-9)
Many people imagine the God we meet in the pages of the (...)
1 April 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Colossians 3:5-11: Strip Off Your Old Self, Live as Someone RisenPut to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put (...)
1 March 2016
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Luke 22:24-27: The Simplicity of the Youngest and of the One Who ServesA dispute arose among the disciples as to which one of them was to be regarded as the greatest. But Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who (...)