Pentecost Psalm: 118 Meditation Pentecost ranks among the top 3 feasts in the Christian calendar. (It may surprise you to learn that Christmas didn’t make the cut). The top 3 should be Annunciation Day (March 25 when the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to have a baby), Easter, and Pentecost. Pentecost (50 …
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Sunday, April 19
Psalm: 146 Meditation 1 Peter: Spiritual maturity is the responsibility of each Christian for himself. “Crave spiritual milk so that you may grow up in your salvation…” (v. 2) Spiritual milk is but the beginning, for eventually we must move on to solid food (see Hebrews 514). Peter later writes that we are a chosen …
Tuesday, April 14
Psalm: 114 Meditation Acts: “God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.” That seems an odd way to announce the gospel but by these very words the people who were listening were “cut to the quick” (or to their very souls) as the King James Version says. This compelled them to …
Monday, April 13
Psalm: 98 Meditation Jonah: Why Jonah? Wasn’t he that rather depressing Old Testament prophet who hated the Ninevites (Assyrians) generally regarded as the vilest of all people? As you know Jonah was thrown overboard (to save the rest on the ship – one life for the many) and was then swallowed by a “great” fish …
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