It shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me, when they say to me every day: “Where is your God?” Psalms 42:11 NABRE Psalm 42 seems to come from a priest longing to be back in the temple with God. It opens with a line of vitality, “As the deer…
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Hebrews 10:23 – October 16, 2018
Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy. Hebrews 10:23 NABRE The Letter to the Hebrews declares Christ as our High Priest and that He once and for all sacrificed for our salvation. No other sacrifice is ever needed.…
View More Hebrews 10:23 – October 16, 2018Jude 1:20-21 – October 15 2018
But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. Jude 1:20-21 NABRE Jude is known as a brother of Jesus. He…
View More Jude 1:20-21 – October 15 20181 Peter 1:3 – September 27, 2018
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1 Peter 1:3 NABRE Peter is writing to Christian communities in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey).…
View More 1 Peter 1:3 – September 27, 2018Isaiah 40:29 – September 17, 2018
He gives power to the faint, abundant strength to the weak. Isaiah 40:29 NABRE Chapter forty of Isaiah begins a second era in the prophets speaking to the people. It is a time when the city of Jerusalem has been conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians. Many of the people…
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