Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 35: House On The Rock

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 […]

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Between the Lines

In case you’re wondering about the sparse and slow writing, I’ve been exhausted the last couple of days, and I’ve also needed some time to read, think and pray. May the Lord bless you and keep you. _________ Boom, Wilfredor: GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 or any later version, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 […]

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John 7–9: Jesus & God the Father

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Saturday Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born I am.” John 8:58 Saturday’s Bible reading is John 7–9. In my post on the first two chapters of John I gave you an introduction to the book and below is a […]

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Hosea 1–7

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Friday When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the LORD.” Hosea 1:2 Friday’s Bible reading is Hosea 1–7. __________ Isaiah 42 Photograph: ChristianPhotos.net […]

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Proverbs 19: Wealth & Friends

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Thursday “Wealth adds many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.” Proverbs 19:4 Thursday’s Bible reading of Proverbs 19 is in the third section of Proverbs: “The first book of Solomon.”1 Proverbs has a great deal to say about work and money, and it […]

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Creation & Women

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 […]

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Psalms 99–101: Knowing & Praising God

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 […]

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1 Timothy 2:9–15: Creation, the Fall, & Women

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 […]

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1 Chronicles 10–14: Saul’s Death & David’s Anointing

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 34: Tuesday Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. In times past, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD your God said to you, ‘You […]

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