Truth For The Heart
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 […]
Read More“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 […]
Read MoreRead 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 […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Sunday Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 49: Sunday Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and […]
Read MoreWeek 49 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 […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Saturday From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Thursday “The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.” Ecclesiastes 12:11 Thursday’s Bible reading is Ecclesiastes 11–12. “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Wednesday “By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs […]
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Kindling for Candles 