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“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
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
You can find this week’s reading here –https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+8%3A8-14%2C+17-21&version=NRSV V.Wisdom encourages us to – Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her. … Continue reading
I.This week our attention will be drawn to some selected verses from Proverbs 8. Take you time as you read and reread the passage. Who do you hear speaking to you in this passage? II.Proverbs 8:8-14 (New Revised Standard Version) … Continue reading