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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:
Genesis 4:10-16 The Lord said, "What did you do? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground. You are now cursed from the ground that opened its mouth to take your brother's blood from your hand. When you farm the fertile land, it will no longer grow anything for you, and you will become a roving nomad on the earth." Cain said to the Lord, "My punishment is more than I can bear. Now that you've driven me away from the fertile land and hidden me from your presence, I'm about to become a roving nomad on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me." The Lord said to him, "It won't happen; anyone who kills Cain will be paid back seven times." The Lord put a sign on Cain so that no one who found him would assault him. Cain left the Lord's presence, and he settled down in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Psalm 102:15-22 The nations will honor the Lord's name; all the earth's rulers will honor your glory because the Lord will rebuild Zion; he will be seen there in his glory. God will turn to the prayer of the impoverished; he won't despise their prayers. Let this be written down for the next generation so that the people not yet created will praise the Lord: The Lord looked down from his holy summit, surveyed the earth from heaven, to hear the prisoners' groans, to set free those condemned to death, that the Lord's name may be declared in Zion and his praise declared in Jerusalem, when all people are gathered together--all kingdoms--to serve the Lord.
Hebrews 1:1-5 In the past, God spoke through the prophets to our ancestors in many times and many ways. In these final days, though, he spoke through a Son. God made his Son the heir of everything and created the world through him. The Son is the light of God's glory and the imprint of God's being. He maintains everything with his powerful message. After he carried out the cleansing of the people from their sins, he sat down at the right side of the highest majesty. And the Son became so much greater than the other messengers, such as angels, that he received a more important title than theirs. After all, when did God ever say to any of the angels: You are my Son. Today I have become your Father? Or, even, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?
John 1:29-34 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is the one about whom I said, 'He who comes after me is really greater than me because he existed before me.' Even I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be made known to Israel." John testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it rested on him. Even I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' I have seen and testified that this one is God's Son."
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