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Sunday, April 24, 2005
 
Week 4: Jeremiah 20:14, Galatians 3:1
NRS Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! 15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A child is born to you, a son," making him very glad. 16 Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon, 17 because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

NRS Galatians 3:1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified! 2 The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard? 3 Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? 4 Did you experience so much for nothing?-- if it really was for nothing. 5 Well then, does God supply you with the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
- posted by The Rev. Scott Petersen @ 5:25 PM 4 comments
Saturday, April 16, 2005
 
Week 3: Deuteronomy 28:1-9, Luke 11:29-32
NRS Deuteronomy 28:1 If you will only obey the LORD your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth; 2 all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the LORD your God:

3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, both the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

7 The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.

8 The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that

you undertake; he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

Luke 11:29 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation; it asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah. 30 For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be to this generation. 31 The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is here! 32 The people of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is here!
- posted by The Rev. Scott Petersen @ 10:26 AM 8 comments
Friday, April 08, 2005
 
Week 2: Deuteronomy 28:58-68, 2 Peter 2:4-10, Mark 7:9-13
NJB Deuteronomy 28:58 'If you do not keep and observe all the words of this Law, which are written in this book, in the fear of this glorious and awe-inspiring name: Yahweh your God, 59 Yahweh will strike you down with monstrous plagues, you and your descendants: with plagues grievous and lasting, diseases pernicious and enduring. 60 He will afflict you with all the maladies of Egypt which you used to dread, and they will fasten on you. 61 What is more, Yahweh will afflict you with all the plagues and all the diseases not mentioned in the book of this Law, until you have been destroyed. 62 There will only be a small group of you left, you who were once as numerous as the stars of heaven. 'For not having obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God, 63 just as Yahweh used to delight in making you happy and in making your numbers grow, so will he take delight in ruining you and destroying you. You will be torn from the country which you are about to enter and make your own. 64 Yahweh will scatter you throughout every people, from one end of the earth to the other; there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone, hitherto unknown either to you or to your ancestors. 65 Among these nations there will be no repose for you, no rest for the sole of your foot; there Yahweh will give you a quaking heart, weary eyes, halting breath. 66 Your life ahead of you will hang in doubt; you will be afraid day and night, uncertain of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, "How I wish it were evening!", and in the evening you will say, "How I wish it were morning!", such terror will grip your heart and such sights you will see! 68 Yahweh will send you back to Egypt, either by ship or by a road which I promised you would never see again. And there you will want to offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as serving men and women, but no one will buy you.'


NJB 2 Peter 2:4 When angels sinned, God did not spare them: he sent them down into the underworld and consigned them to the dark abyss to be held there until the Judgement. 5 He did not spare the world in ancient times: he saved only Noah, the preacher of uprightness, along with seven others, when he sent the Flood over a world of sinners. 6 He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by reducing them to ashes as a warning to future sinners; 7 but rescued Lot, an upright man who had been sickened by the debauched way in which these vile people behaved- 8 for that upright man, living among them, was outraged in his upright soul by the crimes that he saw and heard every day. 9 All this shows that the Lord is well able to rescue the good from their trials, and hold the wicked for their punishment until the Day of Judgement, 10 especially those who follow the desires of their corrupt human nature and have no respect for the Lord's authority. Such self-willed people with no reverence are not afraid of offending against the glorious ones,


NJB Mark 7:9 And he said to them, 'How ingeniously you get round the commandment of God in order to preserve your own tradition! 10 For Moses said: Honour your father and your mother, and, Anyone who curses father or mother must be put to death. 11 But you say, "If a man says to his father or mother: Anything I have that I might have used to help you is Korban (that is, dedicated to God)," 12 then he is forbidden from that moment to do anything for his father or mother. 13 In this way you make God's word ineffective for the sake of your tradition which you have handed down. And you do many other things like this.'
- posted by The Rev. Scott Petersen @ 3:52 PM 14 comments
Sunday, April 03, 2005
 
WEEK 1: Numbers 12:1-16, Romans 3:10-18, Matthew 15:1-9
NJB Numbers 12:1 Miriam, and Aaron too, criticized Moses over the Cushite woman he had married. He had indeed married a Cushite woman. 2 They said, 'Is Moses the only one through whom Yahweh has spoken? Has he not spoken through us too?' Yahweh heard this. 3 Now Moses was extremely humble, the humblest man on earth. 4 Suddenly Yahweh said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, 'Come out, all three of you, to the Tent of Meeting.' They went, all three of them, 5 and Yahweh descended in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the Tent. He called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forward. 6 Yahweh said: Listen to my words! if there is a prophet among you, I reveal myself to him in a vision, I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with my servant Moses; to him my whole household is entrusted; 8 to him I speak face to face, plainly and not in riddles, and he sees Yahweh's form. How, then, could you dare to criticize my servant Moses? 9 Yahweh's anger was aroused by them. He went away, 10 and as soon as the cloud left the Tent, there was Miriam covered with a virulent skin-disease, white as snow! Aaron turned to look at her and saw that she had contracted a virulent skin-disease. 11 Aaron said to Moses: 'Oh, my Lord, please do not punish us for the sin we have been foolish enough to commit. 12 Do not let her be like some monster with its flesh half eaten away when it leaves its mother's womb!' 13 Moses pleaded with Yahweh. 'O God,' he said, 'I beg you, please heal her!' 14 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'If her father had done no more than spit in her face, would she not be unclean for seven days? Have her shut out of the camp for seven days, and then have her brought in again.' 15 Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days. The people did not set out until she returned. 16 Then the people moved on from Hazeroth and pitched camp in the desert of Paran.

Romans 3:10 As scripture says: Not one of them is upright, not a single one, 11 not a single one is wise, not a single one seeks God. 12 All have turned away, all alike turned sour, not one of them does right, not a single one. 13 Their throats are wide -- open graves, their tongues seductive. Viper's venom behind their lips; 14 their speech is full of cursing and bitterness. 15 Their feet quick to shed innocent blood, 16 wherever they go there is havoc and ruin. 17 They do not know the way of peace, 18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.

NJB Matthew 15:1 Then Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus and said, 2 'Why do your disciples break away from the tradition of the elders? They eat without washing their hands.' 3 He answered, 'And why do you break away from the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, "Honour your father and your mother" and "Anyone who curses his father or mother will be put to death." 5 But you say, "If anyone says to his father or mother: Anything I might have used to help you is dedicated to God, 6 he is rid of his duty to father or mother." In this way you have made God's word ineffective by means of your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! How rightly Isaiah prophesied about you when he said: 8 This people honours me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from me. 9 Their reverence of me is worthless; the lessons they teach are nothing but human commandments.'
- posted by The Rev. Scott Petersen @ 11:40 AM 14 comments

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