Presbymom

 This translation from the original Greek text is my own – my Wednesday class jokingly named it the ‘Laura Southern Version’, or LSV. While our regularly used translations are good, the word changes I make here are intended to emphasize different areas and help us hear in new ways. Listen to the living Word from: Romans 8:9-17 – LSV 9  But, all ya’ll are not in the flesh , ya’ll  are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God is home in ya’ll.   Yet, if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.   10  But if Christ is in ya’ll, then even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life   because of justice.   11  But if the Spirit of the one raising Jesus from the dead   is at home in ya’ll, the one raising Christ from the dead will also bring life to ya’ll’s mortal bodies   because of the Spirit living in ya’ll.  12  So then, brothers [and sisters], we have a debt—not to the flesh, to be living according to the flesh.   13  For if ya’ll are living

  After appearing on the Road to Emmaus, Jesus also appeared to the disciples showing them his hands and feet and eating fish. Once convinced that he wasn’t a ghost, they were ready to listen and receive the words of Jesus. Let us receive them now. Luke 24:44-53 (NIV)   44  He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45  Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.  46  He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,  47  and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.  48  You are witnesses of these things.  49  I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” 50  When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands