Orthodox Study Bible

Before the world is demanding your attention, give Christ those first couple minutes.

He deserves it more than anything, okay? Keep your Orthodox Study Bible accessible.

If you don't have a Bible...

Get one.

This is your sign to get one.

Get an Orthodox study Bible.

And what I would recommend with you is keeping it visible, keeping it out, keeping it on your nightstand, keeping it on your bureau.

Open it up at least once a day.

And actually...

That's the basis of the translation for the Orthodox Study Bible too, which is one that I recommend.

If you're wondering what the first book is that you should get, it's not the Ladder of Divine Ascent, but you should start with the Orthodox Study Bible, and then you can get the Ladder of Divine Ascent.

But we hear in John 17, that they may be one as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me, and the glory which you gave me I have given them, that they may be one just as we are one, I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them as you have loved me.

So, Yeah, totally.

We're reading three chapters today: Jeremiah thirty-two, as well as Judith chapters one and two, which is a new book for us.

Maybe a new book for you entirely because of the fact that in, uh, Catholic Bibles and Orthodox Bibles, Judith is there, but in some Protestant Bibles, it is not.

So this will be a great introduction to all of us to Judith one and two, as well as Proverbs chapter sixteen verses twenty-five through twenty-eight.

As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition.