“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7b) VI.What of that balance – to keep silence/to speak. Is that an … Continue reading
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.Who’s listening? Who’s talking? You can find this week’s Scripture at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+3%3A1%2C+7b%3B+Luke+2%3A39-52&version=NRSV VI.Here is a 12 year old boy sitting with the Rabbis. Is he in the background, on the sidelines. How long is he there before the Rabbis notice … Continue reading
I.In this week’s scripture we are first reminded by the writer of Ecclesiastes that there is a proper “…season, and a time for every matter under heaven….” And then we jump over the naming of many of those “seasons” to … Continue reading
IX.As we pay attention to this passage one more time, notice what Jesus asks – “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? …… What then did you go out to see? …… What then did you … Continue reading
V.Did I put too many questions before you this past Monday? As I reread that post, I see I asked a lot of you. After the post was up, I came across this from the novelist William Styron, “A good … Continue reading
I.This week we turn to the Gospel of Matthew for our reflections, still thinking about Wisdom. Notice the closing of this week’s reading – “Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.” (Matthew 11:19) Our passage begins with, “As they went away … Continue reading
You can find this week’s reading at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%209&version=NRSV And a parallel of three translations at –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%209&version=NRSV;CEB;MSG VII.Little choices and big choices – we encounter hundreds or more a day. What informs your choices? VIII.How have you been schooled by Wisdom … Continue reading
You can find this week’s reading at – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%209&version=NRSV And a parallel of three translations at – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs%209&version=NRSV;CEB;MSG IV.Consider how The Messages translates part of this passage – “Are you confused about life, don’t know what’s going on? Come with me, oh come, … Continue reading
I.For our final week in Proverbs for now, we will turn to chapter 9. It appears to me we are presented with two speakers in this chapter – Wisdom and Folly. And both offer us the same invitation – “You … Continue reading
You can find this week’s reading here –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+8%3A8-14%2C+17-21&version=NRSV VII.As you’ve spent time with these words this week, what has drawn your attention so much that you want to stop and reread those words? Why? What do you want to take … Continue reading