Day 188  - Jonah
This guy is pretty gutsy.  Jonah 4:1 says that Jonah was “greatly displeased and became angry.”  With who – you might ask???  With God!!!!  That takes Guts.  Jonah is fired up, red hot angry because God kept his word and was true to character.  Instead of punishing Nineveh, God [...]

This week’s reading catches us back in between selections of Proverbs and soon to be reading of Ecclesiastes. These books, as well as Psalms, Song of Songs and Lamentations comprise a body of biblical literature known as, “Wisdom Literature.” Coming off a few weeks of sermons related to marriage and retirement, wisdom might [...]

Not sure why things happen the way they do? Unsure why we do things that we don’t really want to do? Can’t figure out how something so simple, can turn into a big disaster? King David faces these questions as he takes a Census of Israel and reveals some answers for us, [...]

Day 124 — 2 Samuel 5:11-6:23 – 1 Chronicles 13-16 Day 176 — 2 Chronicles 13-16 – 1 Kings 15:1-24
Day 125 — Psalm 1-2 – Psalm 15, 22-24, 47 and 68
The Ark of the Covenant was finally being brought back home.  The very presence of God was recaptured from the Philistines and traveling [...]

Today we enter the book of Judges, so it’s probably “high time” that I comment on the Book of Joshua!!  You can tell a lot about the theme of an Old Testament book by focuses on how it begins and how it ends.  At the beginning of the book, the Lord affirms Joshua by telling [...]

Out of Leviticus, through Numbers and into Deuteronomy…are you starting to see a pattern emerge? Leviticus out the Law, Numbers repeats aspects of the Law and Deuteronomy is a retelling of the Law. The Greek word “Deuteronomy” actually means “second-law.” God knows his creation well…he must keep telling us over and over [...]

First I need to say that I have fallen behind. I wanted to write this blog every week, then I found that every-other week is more reasonable. Now I am stretching into every third week…arrgghh! Sometimes life gets busy and what we intend to do…does not play out in reality. This [...]

Our reading thus far has followed God’s People from Egypt, into the Wilderness and on our way to the Promised Land.  This basic path should sound familiar to us, not just from a historical perspective, but also at the personal level.  As Christians we have been delivered from the slavery of sin (Egypt) and are [...]

The book of Genesis (or book of the beginning) follows the diagram of understanding I already showed you in Week 1. Let’s take a minute to review. In the Beginning there was God. The adversary, reared his ugly head in the Garden with a temptation too much for Humans to resist. [...]

Our reading this week moves us from Job, back to Genesis. WE journey from the tough lesson about Respect & Trust for the LORD, to the journey of Abraham, a story of faith and God’s faithfulness.
 
Abraham’s story tells us a lot about God, like: God speaks. God directs. God provides. [...]