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TAKE THE BIBLE TO THE BEACH THIS SUMMER: Ideas for your reading list

May 23, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 7 Comments

What are your plans for the summer? My calendar’s filling fast with weekend trips and garden strolls and sitting (in the shade!) by the water. But work is lighter, and so are the days—leaving time for walks and books and doing nothing, if I want. Just seeing “Memorial Day” coming up next week makes my […]

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RECEIVING THE WORD: A Lesson from Football

February 7, 2021 By Sarah Christmyer 6 Comments

COVID has put a damper on our usual Super Bowl festivities. Three years ago, when I first posted this, we crowded with family and friends into the den, feasting and celebrating an amazing Eagles win! This year, it’s just two of us. But I’ll be watching Tyreek Hill as closely as I watched Alshon Jeffery […]

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GOD WANTS TO SPEAK TO YOU: How to Hear Him

October 26, 2018 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

Sometimes I think my cell phone is possessed. Little burps and chirps and whistles come from it at the oddest times, for no apparent reason. There’s no new text, no new email. Someone is trying to reach me, I think. But who? If only I was better at figuring out technology. The Bible is like […]

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CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART: Psalm 51

January 26, 2018 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

"Create in me a clean heart" - Comeintotheword.com

“You’re the man!” According to the Urban Dictionary, that’s a cool way of saying “you rock!” You’re comparing the person to someone everyone knows is awesome, like Jesus (or Allah, or Buddah, or even Chuck Norris, according to that source!) Somehow I don’t think that’s what the prophet Nathan meant in 2 Samuel 12 when […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Scripture Reflection Tagged With: forgiveness, lectio divina, Lent, Lent/Easter, Penitential Psalms

READ THE BIBLE LIKE A DISCIPLE

May 7, 2017 By Sarah Christmyer 2 Comments

Sarah Christmyer at National Catholic Bible Conference 2017

This weekend at the National Catholic Bible Conference in Houston, I spoke on “The Word of God in the Life of the Disciple.” Scripture plays an important role in helping us ENCOUNTER Jesus and grow in RELATIONSHIP with him, and it fosters the TRANSFORMATION that is the hallmark of true disciples. As Catholics, we have […]

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GOD ANSWERS PRAYER & TEACHES US TO ASK

March 9, 2017 By Sarah Christmyer 4 Comments

"The day I called for help you answered me" - Psalm 138. Picture of a tree reaching out for help. God answers prayer.

“Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, had recourse to the Lord.” (Esther C:12*) Have you ever felt like that? “Seized with mortal anguish”? I’ve never faced genocide the way Queen Esther did, but I have felt the “mortal anguish” of despair when we faced deep financial trouble … when our baby’s life hung by a […]

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COME INTO THE WORD: A Healing Encounter With Jesus (Mark 5:22-43)

November 2, 2016 By Sarah Christmyer 7 Comments

Woman's finger reaching to touch Jesus' cloak

The mural fills an entire wall of the Encounter Chapel, which is built on the first-century stone floor of the marketplace at Magdala by the Sea of Galilee. In it, sandals crowd the floor and linen robes brush against the legs and ankles of the men who throng around Jesus. He is a man on […]

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WHY WOULD GOD LISTEN TO ME? – Psalm 86

July 15, 2016 By Sarah Christmyer 1 Comment

hand in water, reachin up for help

I always think of what to say after the conversation’s over. For an hour I sat and listened to my friend complain. The world is falling apart, she fears. “And can you believe those people who pray about every little problem — do they think God cares about a parking space?!” She was incensed. “God has […]

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HELP! (WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?) – Psalm 121

July 1, 2016 By Sarah Christmyer Leave a Comment

hand in water, reachin up for help

I hated walking home after Daylight Savings ended. I didn’t live far from where I babysat, but the road wasn’t lit. Not even houses along the way—houses of people I knew, who were friendly—erased the nagging fear that something could happen, I could be hurt, and no one would come to my aid. I’d clutch […]

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LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME!

June 26, 2016 By Sarah Christmyer 3 Comments

hand in water, reachin up for help

“O God, come to my assistance; O LORD, make haste to help me!” Who hasn’t prayed this, or something like it, at some time in their life? It comes from Psalm 70, where it is a strong cry for rescue. But those words are far more than a cry for help. The early desert fathers […]

Filed Under: Prayer & Lectio Divina, Scripture Reflection Tagged With: lectio divina, trials

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Sarah Christmyer writes and speaks about Scripture and the Catholic faith with the goal of helping people meet Jesus in his Word. “The Bible isn’t just a book about God or instructions for a good life; it’s a place to meet God and be changed by him,” she says. Her love of Scripture fuels her writing of Bible studies and related books; her teaching of Philadelphia seminarians; her speaking at conferences and retreats; and writing for blogs such as this one. “Come Into the Word” draws people into the Bible and encourages and equips them to explore it on their own.

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