Critical Mass

This was a really productive Bible study for me this evening. I really enjoyed answering my questions and reflecting upon the Word of God. Here are three things which I came across this evening that were of particular significance to me:
1. “To deny oneself is to disown oneself as the center on one’s existence.” — [...]

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As long as I am reading into things….  :)
Proverbs 16:30
He who winks his eye is plotting
trickery;
he who compresses his lips has
mischief ready.
This shows how we are able to lie with our bodies. It brought to mind for me teachings from the Theology of the Body almost immediately, especially when you are speaking of conjugal union [...]

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I may be completely out to lunch here, but this struck me while reading my Bible:
Song 2: 12
The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of pruning the vines has come,
and the song of the dove is heard in
our land.
The pruning of the vines just sounded so very end-times to me, where the unworthy would be [...]

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Okay, specifically, I’m asking about 1 Chron 11:17-19
David expressed a desire: “Oh, that someone would give me a drink from the cistern by the gate at Bethlehem!” Thereupon the Three broke through the encampment of the Philistines, drew water from the cistern by the gate at Bethlehem, and carried it back to David. [...]

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Photo:

I didn’t take the picture today, but I did upload it to my Flickr today; and it just made me grin. :)
Question:
Matthew 8:28-34
Could the demoniacs be a type or foreshadowing of Judas, in that when their badness is confronted by Christ, they choose to leave His presence and effect their own self-destruction?
Book Review:
“Church Fathers” by [...]

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This year, Lindsay, Terry and I are studying Jeff Cavins’s Adventures in Matthew, part of the Great Adventure series.  I am so excited to be starting Bible study again!  I have really missed it since last year.  We started off the “school year” right, with Lindsay bringing a delicious dinner of lasagna with home-grown veggies, [...]

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So, today is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It was actually a little odd going to Mass this morning.  Despite the fact that I usually go to morning Mass, I have been pretty sick lately and haven’t made morning Mass in quite some time.  When I got to church, it [...]

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Yesterday, I got a chance again to attend Fr. John’s Bible study.  We are currently going over Galatians.  Particularly yesterday, we were talking about being justified through faith versus being justified by following the Mosaic law.
 With a law, there is the concept that if you break the law, you will incur a penalty.  The example [...]

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1.  In our catechism class last night, we were talking about some of the new teachings of Jesus, compared to the Jewish Law.  Which, of course, prompted thoughts like this to circulate within my head, “If you even look at a Big Mac with lust, you have already added calories to your butt.”  Curse you, [...]

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What’s pink?  My colored pencil color for the last section of readings in Bible study.  According to Jeff Cavins, this period (The Church) is supposed to be white, to represent the spotless bride of Christ. 
Have you ever tried to highlight with white colored pencil?  Doesn’t work too well.  So I had to pick another color.  [...]

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