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Date Posted: 19:43:40 03/22/11 Tue
Author: George
Subject: Re: daily lenten scripture readings: wednesday march 23, 2011.
In reply to: john 's message, "daily lenten scripture readings: wednesday march 23, 2011." on 15:40:35 03/22/11 Tue

>daily lenten scripture readings: wednesday march 23,
>2011.
>
>
>Psalm 128
>
>
>Psalm 128
>A song of ascents.
>
>1 Blessed are all who fear the LORD,
> who walk in his ways.
>2 You will eat the fruit of your labor;
> blessings and prosperity will be yours.
>3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
> within your house;
>your sons will be like olive shoots
> around your table.
>4 Thus is the man blessed
> who fears the LORD.
>5 May the LORD bless you from Zion
> all the days of your life;
>may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
> 6 and may you live to see your children's
>children.
> Peace be upon Israel.
>Psalms 128:1-6 (NIV)
>
>
>Ezekial 36:22-32
>
>
>22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the
>Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel,
>that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy
>name, which you have profaned among the nations to
>which you came. 23 I will sanctify my great name,
>which has been profaned among the nations, and which
>you have profaned among them; and the nations shall
>know that I am the LORD, says the Lord God, when
>through you I display my holiness before their eyes.
>24 I will take you from the nations, and gather you
>from all the countries, and bring you into your own
>land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you
>shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from
>all your idols I will cleanse you. 26 A new heart I
>will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you;
>and I will remove from your body the heart of stone
>and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put my spirit
>within you, and make you follow my statutes and be
>careful to observe my ordinances. 28 Then you shall
>live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and
>you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I
>will save you from all your uncleannesses, and I will
>summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no
>famine upon you. 30 I will make the fruit of the tree
>and the produce of the field abundant, so that you may
>never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the
>nations. 31 Then you shall remember your evil ways,
>and your dealings that were not good; and you shall
>loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your
>abominable deeds. 32 It is not for your sake that I
>will act, says the Lord God; let that be known to you.
>Be ashamed and dismayed for your ways, O house of
>Israel.
>
>Ezek 36:22-32 (NRSV)
>
>
>John 7:53 - 8:11
>
>
>53 Then each of them went home,
>John 7:53 (NRSV)
>
>Chapter 8
>1 while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in
>the morning he came again to the temple. All the
>people came to him and he sat down and began to teach
>them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman
>who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand
>before all of them, 4 they said to him, "Teacher, this
>woman was caught in the very act of committing
>adultery. 5 Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone
>such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They said this to
>test him, so that they might have some charge to bring
>against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger
>on the ground. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he
>straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among
>you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone
>at her." 8 And once again he bent down and wrote on
>the ground. 9 When they heard it, they went away, one
>by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left
>alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus
>straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are
>they? Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one,
>sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go
>your way, and from now on do not sin again."]
>John 8:1-11 (NRSV)

John, I find it sad that as a CofC priest you post the passage John 8:1-11, when the CofC has already taken action to proclaim that homosexuality is not a sin, and that anybody who says it is, Bible or not, ought to receive the modern equivalent of stoning, be it ostracism, or silencing.

George

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