Proverbs 19: Wealth & Friends

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Thursday “Wealth adds many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.” Proverbs 19:4 Thursday’s Bible reading of Proverbs 19 is in the third section of Proverbs: “The first book of Solomon.”1 Proverbs has a great deal to say about work and money, and it […]

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Creation & Women

The role and nature of women has now been in continual debate for an entire generation. I wrote about the consequent calamity and my personal experience of this crisis in my first post on 1 Timothy 2:9–15. In this post I want to look at who God created us to be as women. Paul’s commands […]

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Psalms 99–101: Knowing & Praising God

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Wednesday “The LORD reigns, let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake! The LORD is great in Zion, And He is exalted above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name; Holy is He.” Psalm 99:1–3 Wednesday’s Bible […]

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1 Timothy 2:9–15: Creation, the Fall, & Women

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 33: Sunday “Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. “A woman must quietly receive […]

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1 Chronicles 10–14: Saul’s Death & David’s Anointing

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Tuesday Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. In times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD your God said to you, ‘You […]

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Numbers 5–8: The Lord Bless You & Keep You

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Monday “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘Thus you shall bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: The LORD bless you, and keep you; The LORD  make His face shine on you, And be gracious […]

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Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34

Week 34 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. I put up a variation of this post every week for those who may not know what I’m doing when they find posts on different books of the Bible on different days of the week. On Sunday any posts on a Bible reading will be […]

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Milestones

I’ve compiled the table below from dates given in two books written by Dr. Gleason Archer: A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, 2nd edition, and Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties. I want to add a few caveats: I realize that even among conservative scholars there are differences regarding dates. Within Dr. Archer’s books he discusses some […]

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John 5–6: Witnesses & Works

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 33: Saturday “Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” John 6:28–29 Saturday’s Bible reading is John […]

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