Acts 19–20

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Saturday From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the church. And when they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole […]

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Malachi: The Messenger & The Messiah

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Friday You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them,” or, “Where is the God of justice?” “Behold, I […]

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Ecclesiastes 11–12

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Thursday “The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well-driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.” Ecclesiastes 12:11 Thursday’s Bible reading is Ecclesiastes 11–12. “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because […]

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Psalms 137–139: Grief & Praise

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Wednesday “By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion. Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps. For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs […]

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“I Wonder As I Wander”

I Wonder As I Wander is an American Christmas carol with words and melody by John Jacob Niles.  He based it on a few snatches of song he heard on July 16, 1933, in the small Appalachian town of Murphy, North Carolina: “A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached […]

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Nehemiah 1–4: Arise & Build

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Tuesday “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.  “Now it happened in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capitol, that Hanani, one of my brothers, and some men from Judah came; and I asked them concerning the Jews who […]

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Deuteronomy 20–22

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48: Monday “You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman. “If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it […]

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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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Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 48

Week 48 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 on different days of the week. This is the general schedule from Michael Coley’s reading plan […]

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