Stick with it
The 9th Sunday after Pentecost
Read up on what happened before you were born;
dig into the past, understand your roots.
Ask your parents what it was like before you were born;
ask the old-ones, they’ll tell you a thing or two.
~ Deuteronomy 32:7 (MSG)
Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching that you heard from me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. ~ 2 Timothy 1:13 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Stick with what you've been taught about our loving God's faithfulness to his people.
PRAYER
Almighty God, you have been faithful from generation to generation. Even when we flake out you keep your word. Thank you. Help me to be more consistent in the way in which I apply the truth that has been passed along to me. I can be kind of spotty. But I want to live according to the good news of Christ Jesus, which I have inherited. Amen.
*ABOUT THE
DAILY TEXTS
The Daily Texts have been published by the Moravian Church since 1731. In 2011 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)
