Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Good Morning!

 

The new books arrived yesterday, so I can get a book to those who need one.  If you need one, please let me know how I can get one to you.

 

Today's Reading:  Revelation 1:8

 

-- Quick blurb today, running late this morning.

 

-- This verse is one of the memorable lines from Revelation that you know even before you read the book.  "I am the Alpha and Omega" uses the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet to symbolize the completeness of God.

 

-- The interesting fact from Barclay's commentary today is about the word Almighty -- it is a word that is used, surprisingly, only seven (there's that number again) times in the New Testament, and six of those are in Revelation.  It seems to me that "Almighty" is a phrase that would be throughout the New Testament, but it really isn't.  Just yet another of the ways how Revelation is just a bit different than the rest of the New Testament, and that it really has an Old Testament feel to its wording and writing and concepts.

 

-- But isn't this verse of scripture so reassuring to you as a Christian - that the dimensions of your God are not bound in any direction?

Today's Scripture

 

I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

2 Corinthians 6:18

Today's prayer request:      For Saundra Aaron

 

This is Valerie's brother's mother-in-law, who is going through chemo to treat breast cancer, and who is having a hard time now after the holidays in keeping her spirits up during treatments.

 

Today's class member prayer:

Chris Wesson

 

Have a great day.

Jay