Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Thursday “My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.” Job 19:14 Today’s Bible reading of Job 19–20, begins with Job’s reply to Bildad. Remember, in Job 18, Bildad lectured Job on the “doom of the wicked,”1 a topic with no application or relevance to […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Tuesday “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Monday “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic. His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 9: Thursday “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, Even the wishes of my heart.” Job 17:11 In today’s Bible reading of Job 17–18, Job’s very first words in chapter 17 reflect a man who is listless and numb in his despondency—he realizes there is no […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 8: Thursday “My friends are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.” Job 16:20 Today’s Bible reading is Job 15–16. These chapters begin the second round of replies and rejoinders between Job and his three “comforters.” Eliphaz leads off in Job 15, with these words that set the […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 7: Friday “Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. Now, O LORD our […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 7: Thursday “Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.” Job 13:12 In today’s Bible reading of Job 13–14, Job finishes his rejoinder to Zophar and his other friends. Zopar was the last of the three men to speak to Job, and as […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 7: Wednesday “Some boast in chariots and some in horses, But we will boast in the name of the LORD, our God. They have bowed down and fallen, But we have risen and stood upright. Save, O LORD; May the King answer us in the day we call.” […]
Read More“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
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Kindling for Candles 