1 November 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Galatians 5:13-25: Christian FreedomYou were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit (...)
1 October 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Deuteronomy 4:32-36.39-40: True to LoveAsk now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testing, by signs and wonders, by combat, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by (...)
1 September 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Genesis 11:1-9: A Deceptive UnityNow the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that (...)
1 August 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 25:31-46: Meeting Christ in the LeastJesus said: When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I (...)
1 July 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Genesis 9:8-17: The tense patience of GodThen God said to Noah and to his sons with him: "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am (...)
1 June 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Psalm 42: Thirsting for GodAs the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your (...)
1 May 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Matthew 13:3-9: A God of SurprisesJesus spoke a parable, saying: A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or (...)
1 April 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Acts 17:22-34: Proclaiming the Unknown GodPaul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you. “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served (...)
1 March 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)1 Corinthians 2:12: Knowing God’s GiftsWe have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit from God, so that we may understand the gifts God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
Poor Corinthians! They thought they had understood. Paul had come to see them. He had spent time in their city. He had founded their community. His way of communicating pleased them. From his preaching, they had retained some of his well-crafted formulas that were easy to remember. Then the Apostle left. Other preachers had passed through. Confusion (...)
1 February 2010
Bible Meditations & Prayers (by language)Monthly Bible Meditation (en)Psalm 30: “Your favor lasts a lifetime; I will praise you forever!”I will exalt you, Lord, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me. Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me. You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit. Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people; praise his holy name. For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. When I felt (...)