Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 12: Monday “Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers. For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 12: Sunday “Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.” 1 Corinthians 8:1b Sunday’s Bible reading is 1 Corinthians 7–8. Paul’s teaching on immorality at the end of chapter 6 transitions into a discussion of marriage in chapter 7. Chapter 8 is about how to act towards a fellow Christian […]
Read MoreWeek 12 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. As I read through the Bible this year, I’m writing down some of my thoughts, not to give you comprehensive commentary, but to encourage you to read the Bible. In John 17:17, as Jesus was praying the night before He died, He asked God the […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Saturday “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” Mark 1:1 In Saturday’s Bible reading of Mark 1–2, Mark quotes a short prophecy from Isaiah as an introduction to John the Baptist, and after a few verses on John’s baptizing and preaching as […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Friday “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed me To bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners; To proclaim the favorable year of […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Thursday “Then Job answered, Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation. Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock.” Job 21:1–3 Thursday’s Bible reading is Job 21–22. Job has endured hearing Bildad (chapter 18) […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Wednesday “Blessed be the LORD, For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.” Psalm 31:21 Wednesday’s Bible reading of Psalms 30–32, speaks of God as our shelter and safety and of the blessings of being forgiven by Him and of His lovingkindness. […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Tuesday “Thus Samuel grew and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fail. All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.” 1 Samuel 3:19–20 Tuesday’s Bible reading of 1 Samuel 1–5, begins with […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Monday “So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 11: Sunday “I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But […]
Read MoreWeek 11 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. As I read through the Bible this year, I’m writing down some of my thoughts, not to give you comprehensive commentary, but to encourage you to read the Bible. In John 17:17, as Jesus was praying the night before He died, He asked God the […]
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Kindling for Candles 