Truth For The Heart
Friday’s Bible reading is Lamentations. This short book of only five chapters is a poetic lament over the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the consequences of God’s devastating judgment on Judah. The words are touchingly beautiful in their melancholy and grief as Judah’s sin and God’s judgment are described.
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 23: Tuesday “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built! Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 22: Friday “For neither Israel nor Judah has been forsaken By his God, the LORD of hosts, Although their land is full of guilt Before the Holy One of Israel.” Jeremiah 51:5 Friday’s Bible reading of Jeremiah 47–52, finishes the book. Cawley and Millard title chapters 46–51 as […]
Read MoreRead 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 21: Monday “Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies—then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me!” And all […]
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 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 […]
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Kindling for Candles 