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9 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
PREFACE Most of the people who read this article will have been conditioned to be offended by it. They will read it with an air of sanctimony that they have been taught to think of as a sign of strength. They are not aware that this sanctimony (and...
4 Jul 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I never actually went to a rave. It wasn't my scene. I wasn't into candy bracelets, rainbow colors, or designer drugs. I never went down a K-hole, or was ever even in the room with GHB to my knowledge. I did take Molly a handful of times, but...
3 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Acts 13:13-26 (NRSV) 13Then Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and returned to Jerusalem; 14but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the sabbath day the...
2 Jul 2021 1 minute read 2 comments evgenima
Jeremiah 7:16-26 (NRSV) 16As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer on their behalf, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you. 17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets...
30 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Psalm 88 (NRSV) 1O LORD, God of my salvation,when, at night, I cry out in your presence,2let my prayer come before you;incline your ear to my cry.3For my soul is full of troubles,and my life draws near to Sheol.4I am counted among those who go d...
30 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Acts 12:1-11 (NRSV) Peter and Paul, Apostles 1About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church. 2He had James, the brother of John, killed with the sword. 3After he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to...
30 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
2 Corinthians 6:1-13 (NRSV) Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 1As we work together with him, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. 2For he says,"At an acceptable time I have listened to you,and on a day of salvation I have helped...
21 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Acts 27:13-38 (NRSV) 13When a moderate south wind began to blow, they thought they could achieve their purpose; so they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close to the shore. 14But soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed do...
15 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Ezekiel 31:1-12 (NRSV) 1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 2Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:Whom are you like in your greatness?3Consider Assyria, a c...
7 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments evgenima
Genesis 3:8-15 (NRSV) Second Sunday after Pentecost 8They heard the sound of the Lord GOD walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord GOD among the trees of the...
