Ezekiel 18: 21-28
Psalm 130
Matthew 5: 20-26
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Ezekiel 18: 21-28
Psalm 130
Matthew 5: 20-26
Isaiah 55: 6-9
Psalm 138
Matthew 7: 7-128
Jonah 3
Psalm 5: 1-5 and 17-18
Luke 11: 29-32
Isaiah 55: 10-11
Psalm 34: 4-6 and 21-22
Matthew 6: 7-15
Leviticus 19: 1-2 and 11-18
Psalm 19: 7-end
Matthew 25: 31-end
Bible Readings for 1st Sunday of Lent:
Genesis 9:8-17 – Genesis 9:8-17 NIVUK – Then God said to Noah and to his sons – Bible Gateway – The story of the great covenant between Noah and God signed and sealed by the rainbow. Not just that God would not cause another great flood, like the one they had just been through, but that there would be an ongoing and lasting relationship between the Creator God and all His Creation. Something God still holds fast to, to this day even though many human beings have lost sight of it.
1Peter 3:18-end – – Peter links the death and resurrection of Jesus with the ‘spiritual’ death and resurrection we each go through in baptism. And then Peter makes this strange reference to Jesus going and making a proclamation to ‘the spirits in prison’ who were from the time before the flood, in the time of Noah and the Ark. You will each need to make up your own mind whether that ‘proclamation’ was to set these prisoners free from the judgement they had been through at the time of the flood, or that it was a ‘proclamation’ of judgement and such spiritual ‘prisoners’ were found wanting?
Sort of depends how you see biblical salvation working out? What is wonderful to see, is the powerful link between Baptism and Easter front and central in the life and practice of the early Church.
Mark 1:9015 – The majority of this passage we looked at last week in relation it all aspects of love being about God and those marvellous lines – “you are my son/you are my daughter, whom I love, and in you I am well pleased.”
So many people, in Church and beyond, need to hear this, not just with their ears but in their hearts and in their soul. What is great is that, in verses 14 and 15, Jesus says “the time for that fulfilment is now and it is here.” In Him.
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