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Acts 10:30–47; Acts 15:5–12; Galatians 2:11–16 (read online ⧉) Peter was called/sent to the first “real” Gentile converts, post-Resurrection. There is some fuzziness in this as we cannot assume that there were no other Gentile converts. The likelihood was that they, prior to Cornelius, were…

Psalm 102; Matthew 6:7–15; 1 John 5:12–15 (read online ⧉) Prayer is mysterious. Prayer is powerful. Prayer is…confusing. The psalmist’s opening is the simplest and purest, hear and listen to me (yes, they are different). The psalmist is miserable. The psalmist wants things to stop…

Jeremiah 26:20–24; Matthew 23:29–24:2 (read online ⧉) The most famous Uriah in the Bible is not the one we read about in Jeremiah. The famous Uriah died because the king slept with his wife. He was…inconvenient for the king. Perhaps being named Uriah isn’t a…

Exodus 28:39–29:9; Exodus 32:1–21; Romans 5:1–11 (read online ⧉) The pomp, display, mystery, pageantry (and politics) that surrounds the elevation of a cardinal (or, per rule, any Roman Catholic male) to the position of pope is pretty amazing and can be quite stirring. It should…

Deuteronomy 4:3–9; Mark 12:28–34 (read online ⧉) Imagine walking around and loudly announcing that ALL of God’s commandments are righteous. How long before people would denounce you and unfriend you? Even those who might believe similarly to you might distance themselves. This part of Moses’…