2 John: Walk & Watch

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 50: Sunday I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father. Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have […]

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“Joy to the World!”

“Joy to the World” with its exuberant music and words of celebration is one of my favorite Christmas carols. The words are based on Psalm 98, and it is one of the more than 600 hymns written by Isaac Watts (1674-1748).1 He wrote the hymn, however, not of the First Advent of Christ, but of […]

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Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 50

Week 50 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. This is the general schedule from Michael Coley’s reading plan […]

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Acts 21–22

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Saturday “Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” Acts 21:13 Saturday’s Bible reading is Acts 21–22. May the Lord be […]

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Revelation 1–6: Jesus & the Seven Churches

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Friday “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of […]

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Song of Solomon 1–2

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Thursday “Like a lily among the thorns, So is my darling among the maidens.” Song of Solomon 2:2 Thursday’s Bible reading is Song of Solomon 1–2. May the Lord be with you and bless you through the reading of His Word. ________ Isaiah 42 Photograph: ChristianPhotos.net – […]

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“In The Bleak Midwinter”

In The Bleak Midwinter is a lovely Christmas carol written by Christina Rossetti. “Our God, heaven cannot hold him, Nor earth sustain; Heaven and earth shall flee away When he comes to reign; In the bleak midwinter A stable place sufficed The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.” In these two videos the words are sung […]

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Nehemiah 5–9: Integrity, Wisdom & Joy

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Tuesday “Moreover, from the day that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I no my kinsman have eaten the governor’s food allowance. But the former governors who […]

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Deuteronomy 23–25

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Monday “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge. You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. If he is a poor man, […]

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