Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 20: Tuesday David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, for otherwise none of us will escape from Absalom. Go in haste, or he will overtake us quickly and bring down calamity on us and strike the city with […]
While doing some reading on Job this weekend, I found this by Francis Andersen: “But God did not suspend each individual in isolation, to find fulfillment solely in communion with himself. God put each man with family and friends and things, with property and work. Only a false piety, a disdain for things as evil […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 20: Sunday “Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such persons we are also in deed when present. ” 2 Corinthians 10:11 Sunday’s Bible reading is 2 Corinthians 9–10. In chapter 9 Paul continues to encourage and exhort the […]
Week 20 of Read the Bible in 2011 begins today. I put up a variation of this post every week for those who may not know what I’m doing when they find posts on different books of the Bible during the week. As I read through the Bible this year, I’m writing down some of […]
Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 19: Saturday “Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything […]
Read 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 the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 19: Thursday Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!” Job 38:1–3 Thursday’s Bible reading is Job 37–38. […]
The other week we watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Great plot and sub-plots, great suspense, and, of course, great clothes as Grace Kelly swans around in Edith Head couturier (she even looks chic in what was known at the time as dungarees!). For me the most poignant scene in the movie is when one of Jimmy […]