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The Tuesday Lectionary Group invites you to share some of your favorite scriptures, which we will then share with all members.
Please email them to:
maryann13fenstermacher@gmail.com.
Here are this week's scriptures for study and meditation:
Judges 17:1-6 Once there was a man named Micah who lived in the Ephraim highlands. He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you led you to declare a curse and even to repeat it when I could hear. I have that silver. I'm the one who took it, and now I'll give it back to you.” His mother replied, “May the Lord bless you, my son!” When he gave the eleven hundred pieces of silver back to his mother, she said, “I wholeheartedly devote this silver to the Lord, to be made into a sculpted image and a molded image for my son.”
So he gave the silver back to his mother, and she took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used it for a sculpted image and a molded image. And they were placed in Micah's house. This man Micah had his own sanctuary. He made a priestly vest and divine images and appointed one of his sons to be his personal priest. In those days there was no king in Israel; each person did what they thought to be right.
Psalm 135:13-18 Lord, your name is forever! Lord, your fame extends from one generation to the next! The Lord gives justice to his people and has compassion on those who serve him. The nations' idols are just silver and gold—things made by human hands. They have mouths, but they can't speak. They have eyes, but they can't see. They have ears, but they can't listen. No, there's no breath in their lungs! Let the people who made these idols and all who trust in them become just like them!
Acts 8:18-24 When Simon perceived that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money. He said, “Give me this authority too so that anyone on whom I lay my hands will receive the Holy Spirit.” Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God's gift with money! You can have no part or share in God's word because your heart isn't right with God. Therefore, change your heart and life! Turn from your wickedness! Plead with the Lord in the hope that your wicked intent can be forgiven, for I see that your bitterness has poisoned you and evil has you in chains.” Simon replied, “All of you, please, plead to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will happen to me!”
John 5:44-47 “...How can you believe when you receive praise from each other but don't seek the praise that comes from the only God? Don't think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, the one in whom your hope rests. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because Moses wrote about me. If you don't believe the writings of Moses, how can you believe my words?”
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