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Mark 1:12-13: Why Did the Holy Spirit Freak Out

The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was...

John Bryant

1 Peter 1: 6-7: How Can I Say Our Trembling Hands Are the Glory of God

Week 3 Reflection: 1 Peter 1: 6-7 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various...

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Mark 1: 9-11: Why Do I Have to Walk in the Water with Jesus Christ

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water,...

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1 Peter 1:3-5: Learning to Sit on a Stoop with My Friends and Pray

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope...

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Peter 1:1-2: Hanging Out Between the Turning of the Ages

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,...

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Mark 1: 1-8: The Wild Man Who Summons You to the Drinking of Coffee and the Reading of Scripture

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before...

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Getting Hauled Back By the Gospel

I would like to briefly set before you what I’m thinking with a blog like this, a blog where I combine the contemplation of Scripture...