Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 9: Friday “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 In Friday’s Bible reading of Isaiah 45–50, this phrase and similar words are found repeatedly in chapters 45 and 46 as God speaks […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 8: Wednesday “Posterity will serve Him; It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation. They will come and will declare His righteousness To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.” Psalm 22:30–31 Today’s Bible reading is Psalms 21–23. Psalm 21 is […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Saturday Today’s Bible reading is Matthew 8–10. Matthew 8 begins the second section of this Gospel. Matthew 7: 28a states, “When Jesus had finished these words…” You’ll find similar phrases in 11:1, 13:53, 19:1 and 26:1, that mark the end of a teaching discourse by Jesus. R. […]
“Since 1983, Americans have observed Sanctity of Human Life Sunday (SOHLS) as a day to celebrate the intrinsic value of all human life…. Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is held on the Sunday in January that falls closest to the day on which the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions were handed down […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 3: Saturday Today’s Bible reading is Matthew 5–7. These three chapters record the teaching of Jesus known as The Sermon on the Mount because of the location mentioned in 5:1. The word radical can mean going to the root or source1, and it aptly describes Jesus’ words as […]
The Prodigal Son is probably the best known, and the best loved, of all of the parables told by Jesus. I think that’s because it tells the story of the kind of father we would all like to have. Some of us may have been blessed with a father similar to the one in the […]