Easter living
The 6th Sunday in the Season of Easter
I will give them hearts that recognize me as the Lord. ~ Jeremiah 24:7 (NLT)
Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead... ~ 2 Timothy 2:8 (CEB)
Lord, on this last Sunday in the Easter season -- with awe and whole-hearted gratitude -- I want to tell you how grateful I am for the resurrection of Christ Jesus from the dead. It gives me hope that I will follow him and be raised to new life, too. Please keep the resurrection fresh in my mind so that the reality of Easter continues to change everything about me and around me. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2015 I started posting these Bible verses for my spiritual formation students at Pacific Islands University. In the process of responding to the verses, I found the rhythm of looking for a common thread and writing a prayer based on that key idea to be helpful for my own soul. The prayers are more or less modeled on the TRIP method, which is what I ask my students to do in their journaling. ~ Brad Boydston
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase -- a freestyle biblical adaptation -- somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
