Strange ideas
Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They’re good at this. Surely they can work up something!
Fat chance. You’d be grasping at straws that are already in the fire,
A fire that is even now raging. ~ Isaiah 47:13-14 (MSG)
Don’t be misled by the many strange teachings out there. It’s a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by grace ... ~ Hebrews 13:9 (CEB)
SUMMARY SENTENCE
There is no end to the harebrained experts who would love to distract us from the grace we receive through Christ Jesus.
PRAYER
Kind God, thank you for sending Christ into the world to set things right. I'm grateful to be a part of his plan. I confess, though that I'm easily distracted by some of the looney experts who are looking for their own following. Help me to discern truth from error and to keep my gaze fixed on Christ Jesus. I'm going to look to him as my guide and guru. 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 — my own 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)
