August 11, 2015. Daily Reading: Psalm 84-86. Background: Psalm 81-83. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 84 The dwelling place of the Lord: This psalm is a psalm of the sons of Korah and addresses the lovely dwelling place of the Lord. The psalmist’s soul longs to be in the Lord’s dwelling place, in the court of…
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Leviticus 16-18: Atonement, blood and unlawful sexual relations.
August 10, 2015. Daily Reading: Leviticus 16-18. Background: Leviticus 13-15. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 16 The Day of Atonement: This chapter seems to chronologically fall just following Leviticus 10 where we find the story of the death of Nadab and Abihu after they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord. After the intermission of various laws…
Updated Bible Reading Plan.
August 6, 2015. For those of you who are following along the reading plan and this blog, I have updated the plan and set the selected passages to the dates that I will post about them. Because of the break and shuffling a few of the passages around, the new plan will be complete on…
An Update.
August 5, 2015. Just as an update, I have decided to start this project back up on Monday, August 10th, so that the schedule doesn’t get thrown off too much. I will post an update later this week that details the new, revised schedule for the latter half of our journey though the Bible. Thank…
Intermission
July 20, 2015. If you are a regular reader of this blog and are following along with the reading plan, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support, especially everyone who has given me kind words and encouragement throughout this year. I have decided to take a short break for…
I Thessalonians 4-5: The day of the Lord
July 19, 2015. Daily Reading: I Thessalonians 4-5. Background: I Thessalonians 1-3. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 4 1. A life pleasing to God: As Paul begins to finish his letter to the Thessalonians, he calls them here to live a life that is pleasing to God, noting two things in particular that the Thessalonians should pay…
Luke 19-20: Jesus in Jerusalem.
July 18, 2015. Daily Reading: Luke 19-20. Background: Luke 17-18. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 19 1. Zacchaeus and the parable of ten minas: In the first half of this chapter, Jesus teaches two lessons in the house of Zacchaeus, a short man who was a rich, tax collector. Tax collectors in this day were considered to…
Ezekiel 25-30: Oracles against the nations.
July 17, 2015. Daily Reading: Ezekiel 25-30. Background: Ezekiel 19-24. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 25 Oracles against the nations: In this chapter, the Lord tells Ezekiel to speak oracles concerning several of the nations that were around Israel, each of the coming destruction that the Lord was about to send on thjum. The first nation…
Proverbs 13: More proverbs.
July 16, 2015. Daily Reading: Proverbs 13 Background: Proverbs 11-12. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 13 Proverbs: Chapter 13 continues in like fashion of the previous few chapters, laying out wisdom in proverbs of couplets. Here we find some themes that are beginning to reoccur throughout the proverbs. These themes include listening to a father’s wisdom,…
Psalm 81-83: God and His people.
July 15, 2015. Daily Reading: Psalm 81-83. Background: Psalm 78-80. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 81 “Oh that My people would listen to Me”: After the opening stanza as a call for the people of God to sing and praise the Lord, the rest of this psalm is written from the perspective of God admonishing His…
II Kings 6-10: Elisha, Syria and Jehu.
July 14, 2015. Daily Reading: II Kings 6-10. Background: II Kings 1-5. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 6 1. Signs and wonders: The majority of this chapter deals directly with signs and wonders that accompanied Elisha as he served as a prophet to Israel. The first sign was the recovery of a axe head that had…
Leviticus 13-15: Laws concerning leprosy and bodily discharges.
July 13, 2015. Daily Reading: Leviticus 13-15. Background: Leviticus 10-12. Concepts and Connections. Chapter 13 Leprosy laws: Chapter 13 and 14 of Leviticus deal with the disease of leprosy, which unlike what we know as leprosy today, referred to various diseases of the skin, hair of the beard and head, clothing made of linen or…
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