Genesis 8–11: Rinse & Repeat

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 3: Monday Monday’s Bible reading is Genesis 8–11.  Chapters 8 and 9 tell the events of Noah’s life as the Flood ends and his family begins life again on land.  In 10 and 11, his three sons and their descendants are traced as they separate by families, languages, […]

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Job 3–4: A Lament & A Lecture

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 2: Thursday Job 3 contains Job’s absolutely gut-wrenching lament.  Losses and suffering have piled upon him until his heart splits and sorrow and anguish flow out from him in words of despair.  This is a difficult chapter to read as Job finally opens his mouth to give voice […]

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A New Year’s Love

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 […]

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Romans 3–4: Righteousness & Faith

We either stand before God as a guilty rebel under His judgment, or through faith in Christ, we stand clean before Him in joy and wonder.

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Isaiah 1–6: Pride & Judgment

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 1: Friday “The proud look of man will be abased And the loftiness of man will be humbled, And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day….” “The pride of man will be humbled And the loftiness of men will be abased; And the LORD alone will […]

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A New Year’s Second Chance

Have you been running away lately?  Maybe not physically, but in your mind or emotions?  Have things seemed overwhelming and you don’t know exactly how God is going to help you or deliver you?  Are you thinking you just ought to give up?  Or maybe at some point in the past perhaps you did give […]

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Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour

Carol of the Bells featured a hand bell choir in Taiwan.  The lyrics of Thou Who Wast Rich Beyond All Splendour were written in China by Frank Houghton, an Englishman.  The words, the music and the story behind the writing of this hymn make this song one of my favorite Christmas carols. “…This hymn was […]

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Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming

Music is one of the most wonderful aspects of the Christmas season.  The songs of hope, joy and love span centuries and countries, and when we sing these words or listen to these carols, we join with other believers who in other times and in other places worshiped God with the same music.  This is […]

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