Welcome to our blog bible study!
Our hope is that we will be able to encourage discussion throughout the week on one of the readings from Sunday's service by giving you infinite chances to log on and join in. Every Monday a new reading will be posted.
Anyone is welcome to join in the discussion. It doesn't matter your age, gender or even denomination. You need not be affiliated with St. Margaret's Episcopal Church to be a part of the discussions. The only rule is to be respectful with your posts. All opinions are important and valuable in our discussions on this blog.
Our prayer is that God "grant us so to hear [the Scriptures], read,
mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold
fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which [God has] given us in
our Savior Jesus Christ" (Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Proper 28,
p. 236)
In Christ,
St. Margaret's Living Well Board
2 comments:
This passage from Matthew is the only Gospel with the Magi (although it lists 3 gifts-gold, franiincense and myrrh, the Magi are not numbered) who arrive when Jesus is aged somewhere under 2 years old (hence the ensuing murder by Herod of the children).
God gives us the ultimate gift in his only begotten Son but lets human actions surround him-He asks Joseph through an Angel to escape to Egypt to protect Jesus-He sends the Star to the Magi rather than a Godly proclamation. To me, God is giving us the opportunity to listen to his message and choose how we respond.
A blog in the Bible???
"Many great teachings have been given to us through the Law and the Prophets and the others that followed them, and for these we should praise Israel for instruction and wisdom. Now, those who read the scriptures must not only themselves understand them, but must also as lovers of learning be able through the spoken and written word to help the outsiders. So my grandfather Jesus [ben Sira], who had devoted himself especially to the reading of the Law and the Prophets and the other books of our ancestors, and had acquired considerable proficiency in them, was himself also led to write something pertaining to instruction and wisdom, so that by becoming familiar also with his book those who love learning might make even greater progress in living according to the law."
Prologue to Sirach
The New Revised Standard Version, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 1989.
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