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One Year Bible: June 7
There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death. Proverbs 16:25 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: 1 Kings 2:1-3:2 Acts 5:1-42 Psalm 125:1-5 Proverbs 16:25 In 1971, when my husband was in fifth grade and his brother was about to graduate, his brother went hiking up in the mountains with some friends. After they’d walked a bit, my brother-in-law tried to get his friends to go one way around the mountain, but the rest of them wanted to go another. So he went off by himself. At some point…
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One Year Bible: June 6
The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: 1 Kings 1:1-53 Acts 4:1-37 Psalm 124:1-8 Proverbs 16:24 We can’t ever forget that the Peter who is confronting the priests, guards and Sadducees is the same Peter who trembled before a servant girl on the night of Jesus’ arrest, and who feared to even…
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One Year Bible: June 5
“Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” Acts 3:-6 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: 2 Samuel 23:24-24:25 Acts 3:1-26 Psalm 123:1-4 Proverbs 16:21-23 Had Peter and John given the beggar the money he was after, he would have been happy for a day. Instead — having no money of their own to speak of — they gave him something far better and longer lasting: they gave him healing. The early church had no money, but…
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One Year Bible: June 4
He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because He delighted in me.Samuel 22:20 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: That Felix. If he were a human boy, he’d be losing himself on hikes in the mountains, or falling into wells, or ever-working himself into tight and dangerous spots. But he’s not human. He’s a cat. And so he shadows Dave like a bobcat, following him into the shed and out back to the wood pile, and down to the car that doesn’t run anymore. When Dave opens the door and rummages…
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One Year Bible: June 3
“The One who watches over you will not slumber.” Psalm 121:3 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: 2 Samuel 20:14-21:22 Acts 1:1-26 Psalm 121:1-8 Proverbs 16:18 The first time I realized that my mother (who raised us as a single parent) slept while I was sleeping, I didn’t like it one bit. I remember waking in the middle of the night to a silent house, with both my sisters sleeping in their room, and my mother sleeping in hers. I was alone in the dark (or so I thought), thinking that anything at all could happen,…
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One Year Bible: June 2
A third time He asked him, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a third time. He said, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Then feed My sheep.” John 21:17-18 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: 2 Samuel 19:11-20:13 John 21:1-25 Psalm 120:1-7 Proverbs 16:16-17 “They ate the bread and fish that morning, I doubt not, in silent self- humiliation. Peter looked with tears in his eyes at that fire of coals, remembering how he stood and warmed himself when he…
