Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 21: Friday Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “If you really set your mind to enter Egypt and go in to reside there, then the sword, which you are afraid of, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 20: Friday “Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchad-nezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it; in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, in the […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 19: Friday “For thus says the LORD, ‘Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them. Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 18: Friday Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, “Listen now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 17: Sunday “You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on […]
Read MoreThen Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED.’” Matthew 26:31 Men scattered by their fears to bleakest grief, Into mourning without hope, despairing sorrow. Two days locked in now […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 16: Friday The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 Friday’s Bible reading is Jeremiah 17–21. Last September, in Fruit, I contrasted Jeremiah 17:5–8 with Psalm 1. These chapters contain many other well-known passages from this prophet, including […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 13: Friday Friday’s Bible reading of Jeremiah 1–6, begins the book of prophecy of the man known as the weeping prophet. As a brief background to Jeremiah’s time, after the death of Solomon the kingdom of Israel split into two. Jeroboam, who was not a son of Solomon, […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 13: Wednesday “The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.” Psalm 37:12–13 Through David’s psalms in Wednesday’s Bible reading of Psalms 36–38, God teaches us some things we need to know […]
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Kindling for Candles 