Today’s Reading begins with Acts,10:25 and includes this passage quoting St. Peter: “Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears Him and acts uprightly is acceptable to Him.” This passage boils reams of worry about who is and who is not going to be saved down to the very essence of salvation: “in every nation, whoever fears Him and acts uprightly is acceptable to Him”. It does not say...
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Bible Reading Sunday, March 25, 2012
Bible Reading Sunday, March 25, 1 Jer 31:31-34 The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. (Jesus Christ is coming.) It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the...
Bible Reading Sunday, March 18, 2012
Bible Reading Sunday, March 18, 2012 Reading: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 In those days, all (“All” is a key word in this passage. We may hope that the collapse of a society doesn’t happen until “all” the establishment has been corrupted, as follows:) the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added infidelity...
March 11, 2012 The Loving Programmer’s Operating Instructions
Sunday, March 11, 2012 Ex 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17 In those days, God (The Loving Programmer) delivered all these Commandments (Operating Instructions) to His people (human programs): “I, the LORD (Loving Programmer) am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me.”You...
Bible Reading February 19, 2012
Bible Reading February 19 Reading 1 Is 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25 Thus says the LORD: Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers. The people...
Bible Reading February 12, 2012
Bible Reading February 12 Reading 1 Lv 13:1-2, 44-46The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man...
Bible Reading Sunday, February 5, 2012
Reading 1 Jb 7:1-4, 6-7 Job spoke, saying: Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of hirelings? He is a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for his wages. So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled nights have been allotted to me....
Bible Reading Sunday, January 29, 2012
Bible Reading Sunday January 29 2012 Reading 1 Dt 18:15-20 Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen. This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the...
Bible Reading January 22, 2012
Bible reading January 22 Reading 1 Jon 3:1-5, 10 The Word of the LORD came to Jonah, saying: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’S bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large...
Bible Reading January 15, 2012
Bible Reading January 15, 2012 Reading 1 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19 Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.” “I did not call you, ” Eli said....