Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and Psalm 107:1-9.

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Notice the action words of God in this prayer that begins the fifth and final book in the collection of Psalms. God moves into our lives with the same saving energy as God did to our Jewish ancestors long ago. Pause at each verb and let your soul receive right now the timeless actions of God.

God’s protection at sea is celebrated from verse 23. I wonder if Jesus’s disciples caught in the storm on the lake in the Gospels recalled this part of the Psalm. Greater is the One in your boat than all the storms from without that rage and rock to frighten you. To insure that you are in touch with Jesus within who is saving you, I suggest that you repeat the refrain of this psalm as each hour of your day strikes.

Psalm 107

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We follow a reading of the Psalms in numerical order.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and Proverbs 9:7-12.

Feelings of completion, fulfillment, satisfaction, celebration, and community flow from the images of wisdom. The power of poetry takes the abstract, investing it with all the vividness of the five senses.

Engage your senses as you read about the ways of wisdom, once again contrasted with the ways of the harlot. The Lord gives us our senses so that we can find God through them, and with God, God’s plan for us.

Wisdom is a practical way of living. It is not intended to fill the mind with a gluttony of ideas, but rather to bathe the heart and ready it do what the Lord wants. Read this chapter repeatedly until you fully catch the Lord’s beckonings to you this day.

Proverbs 9

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Example: Walking with wisdom each day

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the season of Advent to Epiphany this year, we read Ruth, Esther and Proverbs 7 to 9.

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Listen to Pastor Nick read the “Firestarter” and Isaiah 66:1-2; 10-13.

Isaiah in this final chapter joins Matthew 25 with the sheep and goats, along with Revelation 21 in proclaiming the justice of God at the end of the world. Yet the end has already begun; the New Jerusalem is the Church.

Be challenged to come to true worship. Move into the fullness of joy as you rest in prayer at the bosom of the Church where the Holy Spirit feeds you with the very love of God. Your imagination is the mouth that takes in all the nourishment that the Mother Church longs to give you as her child.

When you are troubled with the injustices that make the headlines of the morning paper, claim in your heart that the triumph of justice will come. Will you live with the faith that believes that what is coming is already here?

Isaiah 66

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Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
In the seasons of Advent through Epiphany this year we read Isaiah 56 to 66..

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.