Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Proverbs 5:1-14.

A special family clock rests on a table in my office. As I counsel people and see the movement of the hour, that familiar, lovely face from the past looks back at me, along with the face of the one with whom I am talking. I make sure that the clock is never near the edge; I like to see a border of table-top around it!

Is there a border, a boundary, a hedge about you and that special other person whom God may have given you to share life together? If not, then be open to the images of seduction in today’s passage. Be aware of the danger of even the slightest out-of-boundary flirtation.

There is one face you surely want to have before you at all times—the Lord’s face. The Holy Spirit will breathe honesty into your heart and wrench away the power of lust with the pure power of love.

Proverbs 5

What are Bible Breaths? Learn More…
Example: Attentive to Your Wisdom. v. 1

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”

Due to an early Easter, we read the 7th and 8th Weeks in the Season of Epiphany
at the beginning of the Season of Pentecost. On Tuesdays, we read Proverbs 5 and 6.

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 Isaiah 52:7-10.

Two mountains stand as great borders to the valley of the shadow of death and resurrection, which is the season of Lent and Easter. The first is Mount Tabor, where the Transfiguration of Jesus took place, celebrated at the end of the Epiphany Season. The other is the Mount of the Ascension, at the end of the season of Easter. Today’s reading bears both the heights of the glory of the good news, and the depths of the suffering of Jesus. The Lectionary reading for Good Friday sounds the somber yet poignantly beautiful images of the fourth and final Servant Song from 52:13.

Mountains and valleys: can there be one without the other? Though you are up in the heights one day, or down in the depths the next, Jesus is the one with the good news on the heights and with you as your Suffering Servant in the depths of your Good Fridays. Even if your life seems like one big roller coaster of ups and downs, remember that the Lord Jesus is always sitting next to you.

Isaiah 52—53

What are “Bible Breaths”? Learn More…
Example: As I walk, I bring Your peace. 52:7

Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
Since Easter was two weeks earlier than its mean week, the two weeks at the end of the Epiphany season are added to the beginning of the season of Pentecost.

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 reading.

The Gospel promises that with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the disciples will become strong, empowered by the very glory of Christ visited upon them in the Spirit. The tongues of fire upon their heads, become “tongues of fire” in their hearts and mouths. All fear is gone. Peter is bold, giving the first sermon that gathers so many into the Body of Christ that very first day. Babel is reversed. That cursed attempt to build a tower of gathered people that scatters them more than ever, now yields to a new communication that has each one understand in their own language (Genesis 11).

Get ready for the gift of Pentecost to flow into your soul. Claim it. The promises made by Jesus in the Gospel are for you. You have a permanent advocate, helper, comforter, and counselor in the Holy Spirit.

John 15:26–27; 16:4b–15

What are “Bible Breaths”? Learn More…
Example: Spirit in me witnessing 15:26

Sundays are dedicated to the Gospels from the Revised Common Lectionary.

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.