Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Saturday “And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition. You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you: ‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Friday “Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help And rely on horses, And trust in chariots because they are many And in horsemen because they are very strong, But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD! ” […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Thursday “He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.” Job 12:5 Job summarizes the attitude of his friends: they are at ease and not beset with devastation, and so they look down on calamity as something that cannot touch […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Wednesday In today’s Bible reading of Psalms 15–17, I noticed the theme of integrity, and I also noticed the word, shaken. One thing I sometimes do after praying and reading the Bible is to look up some of the individual words. In the right sidebar under Resources, […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Tuesday But the LORD said to him, “Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.” Judges 6:23 – In The God Who Is There, Francis Schaeffer issued a call to arms for my generation with this quote: “If I profess with the loudest voice […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Monday “Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.”” Genesis 22:14 In today’s Bible reading, Genesis 20–23, Abraham sees the fulfillment of God’s promise in the birth […]
Read More“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
Read MoreWeek 6 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. I’m writing down some of my thoughts and reflections as I read through the Bible to encourage you in your own Bible reading. I am giving a small amount of background material, but for the most part I’m trying to keep my focus on broad […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 5: Saturday Today’s Bible reading is Matthew 11–13, the third section of this Gospel. Matthew 11:1a states, “When Jesus had finished giving instructions…” You’ll find similar phrases in 7:28, 13:53, 19:1 and 26:1, that mark the end of a teaching discourse by Jesus. R. E. Nixon writes that […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 5: Friday Today’s Bible reading of Isaiah 23–28, encompasses several sections of the book. Chapter 23 is the oracle concerning Tyre. It finishes the prophecies of God’s judgment of nations that began in chapter 13.1 The next four chapters, 24–27, are “often loosely known as the ‘Isaiah Apocalypse’,” […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 5: Thursday Today’s Bible reading is Job 9–10. These chapters contain Job’s rejoinder to Bildad. Rejoinder is the word used by Gleason Archer to describe Job’s speeches to his friends.1 One of Dr. Archer’s many degrees was in law, and it’s not surprising that he would use a […]
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Kindling for Candles 