PEACE
Transfiguration Sunday
PSALM 29:11 (MSG)
GOD makes his people strong.
GOD gives his people peace.
EPHESIANS 2:17 (MSG)
Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders. He treated us as equals, and so made us equals.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
Let God's peace into your life.
PRAYER
Thank you, God, for sending peace into our troubled world. I confess that whenever there is a tragedy or drama I start to worry that it's not taking. Renew my confidence in you and the gift of your peace. I'm going to act on your peace even when circumstances around me tug me to act otherwise. 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)
