Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and the Gospel reading.

What makes for true greatness?—a question pondered long and hard by sages from all cultures. Jesus’s disciples enter the dispute, arguing among themselves, forgetting that incarnate Wisdom walks with them. Jesus stops, takes a child, sets him in their midst, and shares the essence of greatness that is wrapped in a child’s heart. Listen as Jesus speaks to your heart.

There is a child inside of you. Would that the evil kings of Judah and Israel would have listened as this child to God’s voice! One wonders just where they “rested”, when they “rested with their fathers.” You will rest in the bosom of the Father forever in heaven, if you live as God’s beloved child now upon earth.

Mark 9:33–50

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Example: “Welcome children—welcome Me.” v. 37

Fridays are dedicated to the Gospels. This year, we generally read
from the Gospel of Mark, this season, chapters 4 to 9.

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information.

Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and 2 Corinthians 13:5-13.

Take a step back and look at your life, not with eyes of judgment, but with kindness, even though the Spirit may sweetly convict you of sinfulness. This will incline you less to feel guilt along with the accompanying blame of others or defensiveness in yourself. Release the flow of your life, whether its present movement is joyful or painful. Get out of your own way and let the reconciling, healing powers of the Lord bubble up from deep within. Then you will be more disposed for Paul’s encouragement in v. 11 that we “aim for perfection.” The Greek word for this is katartizo, the same word for the disciples “mending” their nets just before Jesus asked them to cast their nets out into the sea again.

May you be mended, healed, made whole and blameless in the sight of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 13

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Example: Joy in the strength that You give v. 9

Thursdays are dedicated to the letters of Paul, other letters,
the Book of Acts, and the Book of Revelation.
In this season of Pentecost this year,
we read 2 Corinthians.

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information.

Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and the Psalm.

Tap here for a video meditation of Psalm 81.

Are you sometimes your own worst enemy? This is likely due to stubbornness—ears and heart blunt to the Word of the Lord. Join with the many praying this psalm with you today, along with generations down countless ages who likely sang this song at the time of the Jewish New Year and at other festivals. Listen carefully to the promises at the end of the psalm. The finest of wheat is offered—the Body of the Lord Jesus in Holy Communion. Receive the Lord often in your spirit. Become as the Food you eat—open, receptive, abandoned to the Father, as is the Son in the joy and love of the Holy Spirit.

Let every day, every hour, be a new beginning.

Psalm 81

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Example: Filled with honey from the rock. v. 16

We follow a reading of the Psalms in numerical order.

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information