1 July 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 7:24-27: Words of LifeJesus said: Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with (...)
1 June 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Deuteronomy 11:18-21: Your Word on Me and in MeFix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth. (...)
1 May 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Jeremiah 7:1-11: Religion Versus FaithThis is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Stand at the gate of the Lord’s house and there proclaim this message: Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. Do not trust in deceptive words and say, “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord!” If you really change your (...)
1 April 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 25:14-30: A Time to DareJesus said: The Kingdom of heaven will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more. So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the (...)
1 March 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Ephesians 2:11-22: Free access to the Father!Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)—remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has (...)
1 February 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 6:12: The Pardon of the PoorForgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. (Matthew 6:12)
This petition of the Our Father is different from all the other ones. It is not only a prayer to God, but also mentions what we do: “as we have forgiven” or “as we forgive.” The first variant is preferred by bible scholars, the second by common practice.
Whoever prays in this way “presents themselves before God as an example of virtue, if we are allowed to put it that way, by calling upon God, who is beyond any imitation, to come and (...)
1 January 2012
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 2:1-12: Jesus, Herod, the Magi and UsAfter Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the (...)
1 December 2011
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Exodus 6:2-9: Belonging to GodGod also said to Moses, “I am YHWH. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name YHWH I did not make myself fully known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant. Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am YHWH, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free (...)
1 November 2011
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Psalm 22: From Distress to PraiseMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are the one Israel praises. In you our ancestors put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. To you they cried out and were saved; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All (...)
1 October 2011
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)2 Corinthians 12:7-10 : What Do You Boast About?In order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I (...)