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Matthew 9:18–26; Mark 5:21–43; Luke 8:40–56 (read online ⧉) People often use scripture to justify certain things, or at least state that whatever “this” is, it is nothing new. One of those is a thought that the woman in today's Scriptures had been bleeding due…

Exodus 34:1–7; Numbers 14:26–38; Jeremiah 31:27–34 (read online ⧉) For those of us whose American individuality is almost hardwired into us, it seems inconceivable that God would punish us for other’s sins, especially for those who sinned before we were born. In fact, in many…

John 17:1–11; Ephesians 1:17–23 (read online ⧉) I thought how ironic it was that I’d dismissed dog meat as a cultural idiosyncrasy in Vietnam; that “who I am to judge?” extended to Islamic laws in Uzbekistan and Buddhist temple restrictions in Cambodia, but not to…

Acts 17:22–31; 1 Peter 3:13–4:6 (read online ⧉) Worship. We view this as a core function of what we are to do as Christians. We worship the one true God, who is mysteriously Three-in-One. In some respects, and more practically, worship is acting in a…

Psalm 47; Job 23:3–12; Job 26:2–14; John 1:43–51 (read online ⧉) The Stone of Scone is a stone that supposedly all the “legitimate” rulers of Scotland were/are crowned on. After one of the many wars between England and Scotland, the English King Edward I took…