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PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:13-17 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage? I want to try something. I wonder if some are reading my reflections first. Try listening for the Lord in the passage first, and post your own comment. My comments are not meant to shape yours, but to…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:7-12 What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage? I want to try something. I wonder if some are reading my reflections first. Try listening for the Lord in the passage first, and post your own comment. My comments are not meant to shape yours, but to…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 3:1-6 “This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah…” (Matthew 3:3) If there is a quote in the bible, do you ever check where it is from? Matthew links John to Isaiah’s “voice of one calling in the wilderness” (Isaiah 40:3). If we look closer at Isaiah 40, you see who…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 2:19-23 “Having been warned in a dream…” (Matthew 2:22) I believe in spiritual guidance, that God helps and directs us through life. Here we have God using a dream to guide Joseph in his role as Jesus’s father. I don’t think God has used dreams for me, but He has directed me…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Psalm 1 “Blessed is the one… who meditates on his law day and night.” (Psalms 1:2) What is the key to a blessed (or happy, or full) life? Ultimately, the key is living as God designed and created us to live. Adam and Eve (and us with them) have tried to find happiness…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 4-6 “You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.” (Genesis 4:12) The word ‘lost’ in christian circles seems to mean doomed or ‘going to hell’. But a child ‘lost’ in a mall is not doomed but desperate, needing help. I see all humanity – including myself – in this lost condition….

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Genesis 1-3 “The Lord God put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” (Genesis 2:15) God has created an amazing, beautiful world, and put humans in charge of it. Our world is a screwed up mess, not because of God but because of humans. There is…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 2:13-18 “Rachel weeping for her children… because they are no more.” (Matthew 2:18) The above picture is a Jewish school in the Netherlands. The quote in the right box is Jeremiah 31:15, ‘the children are not here’. This is a reference to the Jewish children sent to Nazi death camps to die. Matthew…

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Matthew 2:1-12 “We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” (Matthew 2:2) I am curious how pagan astrology pointed these men to a Jewish messiah? Here God works through another religion (likely Zoroastrianism) to draw people to Jesus. I see this story as more about God seeking the…