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V.Let’s return to this song of praise and as you spend time with it today notice how it might draw you in. VI.Revelation 19:1-8 (NRSV) After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude … Continue reading
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I.As you approach these words of praise, approach with an open heart willing to accept and acknowledge the praise that is voiced, and as best you can notice what their sources of such words are. II.Revelation 19:1-8 (NRSV) After this … Continue reading
VIII.As you read this week’s Scripture once again, see if you notice those echoes I mentioned the other day. Echoes of themes we find in other places in the Scriptural narrative. If none come to mind, you could check in … Continue reading
V.As you read this week’s focus passage today, give some thought to how you see it fits or does not fit into the overall Scriptural narrative. VI.Revelation 11:15-19 (NRSV) Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud … Continue reading
I.By now in the Book of Revelation we are past the letters to the seven churches, past the opening of the seven seals and here we come to the sound of the seventh trumpet. With the hearing of this trumpet, … Continue reading
VII.We’ve spent time this week noticing what this passage has to say about praise, worship and salvation. As we spend time with it today, pay attention to the closing words of the passage and see how they complement what is … Continue reading
IV.As we return to this passage, let’s give some attention to how the “elder” describes the “great multitude.” V.Revelation 7:9-17 (NRSV) After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from … Continue reading
I.We continue to reflect on “praise” and for this week and the following two weeks we will spend time with three passages from the Book of Revelation. Sometimes just a mention of the Book of Revelation will have folks turning … Continue reading
VII.Again, in Bread in the Wilderness, Thomas Merton writes –“The Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ,to feed those who have … Continue reading
IV.In Thomas Merton’s Bread in the Wilderness, I came across this – “ … the Psalms are the nourishment of [the] interior life and of … personal prayer, so that at last [we] come to live them and experience them … Continue reading