Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 35: Friday “How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? “My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are kindled. I will not execute My […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 35: Wednesday “Bless the LORD, O my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits” Psalm 103:1–2 Wednesday’s Bible reading is Psalms 102–104. Have you ever thought about how the psalms teach you […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 35: Tuesday “Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy…” 1 Chronicles 15:16 Tuesday’s Bible reading is 1 Chronicles 15–19. These chapters cover events of joy, blessing and […]
Journey Through The Storm is a new page I published today in the heading as a child page under Anchor of Hope. It’s a collection of posts that serve as a logbook of my journey through my storm of the last few years. I added commentary between the posts to provide background on their writing. […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 35: Sunday “Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.” 2 Timothy 1:13–14 Sunday’s Bible reading is 2 […]
Week 35 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. You can read the complete explanation of what I’m doing here. Why is it so important for us to read God’s Word? When I started the blog I never expected to have so many posts with nautical themes, but in the Bible storms are a […]
The role and nature of women has now been in continual debate for an entire generation. I wrote about the consequent calamity and my personal experience of this crisis in my first post on 1 Timothy 2:9–15. In this post I want to look at who God created us to be as women. Paul’s commands […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Wednesday “The LORD reigns, let the peoples tremble; He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake! The LORD is great in Zion, And He is exalted above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name; Holy is He.” Psalm 99:1–3 Wednesday’s Bible […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 33: Sunday “Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. “A woman must quietly receive […]