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These Best-Laid Plans: Genesis 11:1-9

  Pentecost Sunday Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.  2  And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.  3  And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar.  4  Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”  5  The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.  6  And the Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.  7  Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one anoth...
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Resurrection Living: When Death Still Exists (Romans 6:1-11)

  Fifth Sunday of Easter So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply?  2  Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it?  3  Or don’t you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  4  Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death , so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life.  5  If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his.  6  This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore,  7  because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power.  8  But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him....
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Reality and Imagination: Isaiah 55:1-9

  Third Sunday of Lent All of you who are thirsty, come to the water! Whoever has no money, come, buy food and eat! Without money, at no cost, buy wine and milk! 2  Why spend money for what isn’t food,     and your earnings for what doesn’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is good;     enjoy the richest of feasts. 3  Listen and come to me;     listen, and you will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you,     my faithful loyalty to David. 4  Look, I made him a witness to the peoples,     a prince and commander of peoples. 5  Look, you will call a nation you don’t know,     a nation you don’t know will run to you     because of the Lord your God,     the holy one of Israel, who has glorified you. 6  Seek the Lord when he can still be found; ...
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