Truth For The Heart
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Thursday “My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.” Job 19:14 Today’s Bible reading of Job 19–20, begins with Job’s reply to Bildad. Remember, in Job 18, Bildad lectured Job on the “doom of the wicked,”1 a topic with no application or relevance to […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Wednesday “To You, O LORD, I call; My rock, do not be deaf to me, For if You are silent to me, I will become like those who go down to the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help, When […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 10: Tuesday “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously […]
Read MoreRead 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 MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 7: Tuesday “Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god. Thus the sons of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands […]
Read More“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!”
Read MoreRead 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. […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Friday Today’s Bible reading, Isaiah 18–22, continues with prophecies of God’s judgment of nations that began in chapter 13 and finishes in chapter 23.1 Chapters 18–22 contain judgments on Cush (Ethiopia/Sudan), Egypt, Babylon, Edom, Arabia and Jerusalem. Last week I quoted Derek Kidner as saying: “…these chapters […]
Read More“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 […]
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Kindling for Candles 