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Daily Reading for Lent: Sat Feb 27, 2010

Saturday, February 27th, 2010by joshua grace

Saturday, February 27 In the Father, again, and the Spirit in us.

John 14:18-26 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.   On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.  Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will  love  him and show myself to him.”

Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will  love  him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  He who does not  love  me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

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Daily Readings for Lent: Fri Feb 26, 2010

Friday, February 26th, 2010by joshua grace

Friday,  February 26 The logic of loving substitution

Athanasius (293-373), On the Incarnation.

Taking a body like our own, because we all were liable to the corruption of death, He surrendered His body to death instead of all, and offered it to the Father. This He did out of sheer love for us  so that, as all died in Him, the law relating to the corruption of men might be abolished…The death of all was consummated in the Lord’s body, and both death and corruption were utterly destroyed through the Word who was present in it; for death there had to be, and death for all, so that the debt of all might be paid. Wherefore, as I said before, the Word, since it was not possible for Him to die, assumed a body that was capable of dying, so that He might offer it as His own in place of all.”

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Daily Readings for Lent: Thurs Feb 25, 2010

Thursday, February 25th, 2010by joshua grace

Thursday, February 25 Freed from sin. Insert your own name.


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Baptism prayer, The Book Of Common Prayer.  ..Humbly we beseech Thee to grant , that he/she, being dead unto sin, and living unto righteousness, and being buried with Christ in His death, may crucify the old self, and utterly abolish the whole body of sin; and that, as he/she is made partaker of the death of Thy Son, he/she may also be partaker of His resurrection; so that finally, with the residue of Thy holy Church, he/she may be an inheritor of Thine everlasting kingdom.”

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Daily Readings for Lent: Wed, Feb 24, 2010

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010by joshua grace

Wednesday, February 24 Freed from the penalty of disobedience.

Galatians 2:15-21 A person is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.

If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!  If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

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Daily Readings for Lent: Tues, Feb 23, 2010

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010by joshua grace

Tuesday, February 23 Freed from death

Romans 6:4-11  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.  If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless that we should no longer be slaves to sin– because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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