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Reading for today:  Mark 11:12-19

Read Mark 12 in your preferred version of the Bible.  My own paraphrase from the Greek New Testament follows.

“The next day they went out from Bethany and they were hungry.  Seeing a fig tree from a distance they saw it was full of leaves and they went to it to see if by chance they could find anything on it, and when they came to it no one found anything but leaves (it was not the right season for figs).  He responded saying to it, ‘May no one ever eat any of your fruit. Never!’ And his disciples heard him say it.

“They came to Jerusalem and entered into the Temple and he began to drive out the ones selling and buying in the Temple area, and he turned over the tables of the money-changers and the chairs of those selling doves.  He did not let anyone carry their wares through the Temple and he taught them, “Is it not written: (more…)

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I cried out (Psalm 119:145)

“I cried out with all my heart, ‘Yahweh, answer me!’  I will observe Your statutes” (145)

“I seek You with my eyes, I probe with my mind as I meditate on Your word.”  (147)

“Yahweh, You are near and all your commandments are truth.”  (151)

Three keys verses from the 8 verse “Qoph” stanza of Psalm 119 that spoke to me today.

Study is not enough.  Learning and thinking is not enough.   (more…)

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