Hold Your Plans Loosely
Thanks to a nasty cough and the time change my son woke me up at 5am this morning. I was feeling pretty tired and irritable and forgot my plan to pray each morning for God to help me accept his control over my life. Once we got out of bed and I started making breakfast
Category: Sabbath Rest
28 Days of Sabbath Rest
For the month of November my 28 day experiment will be Sabbath rest. Jesus is asking me to trust Him completely and to rest in Him. “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to
Category: Sabbath Rest
What I Learned from Reading the Whole Bible in a Month
Reading the whole Bible in 28 days turned out to be a lot more doable than I realized and incredibly rewarding. When I started this experiment I had two goals: That my focus would be first and foremost on God each and every day and that spending a significant amount of time reading Scripture would
Category: Read the Whole Bible
Apostles’ Letters and Revelations
What I Read: Day 26: 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galations, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy Day 27: Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2 and 3 John Day 28: Jude, Revelations My Impressions: The letters from the apostles to the early Christian churches put strong emphasis
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Luke, John, Acts, & Romans
What I Read: Day 24: Luke 10-24, John, Acts 1-13 Day 25: Acts 14-28, Romans My Impressions: The gospel of John is quite different from the other three with different stories and a focus on Jesus being the son of God. Much of the Christian language and understanding of what Jesus did and what his death
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Matthew & Mark
I’ve had a friend visiting from out of town for a couple of days and have fallen behind in my Bible reading. I’m hoping I can catch up the rest of the week. Into the New Testament! What I Read: Day 21: Matthew 1-17 Day 22: Matthew 18-28 Day 23: Mark and Luke 1-9 My
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Daniel & The Minor Prophets
What I Read: Day 19: Ezekiel 22-48, Daniel, Hosea 1-2 Day 20: Hosea 3-14, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, & Malachi My Impressions: God loves justice, truth, and mercy and requires the same from us. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego trusted God completely, even to the point of being willing to
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Jeremiah, Lamentations, & Ezekiel
What I Read Day 17: Jeremiah and Lamentations Day 18: Ezekiel 1-23 My Impressions God hates rebellion and injustice. Everything and everyone is under God’s control and at the same time we are all responsible for our actions. God used Babylon for His purposes and they were still responsible for doing evil. Each person is
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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, & Isaiah
What I Read Day 15: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs Day 16: Isaiah My Impressions We are fooling ourselves if we do anything apart from God, if we place our trust in anyone or anything other than God, or being prideful we forget God or think we don’t need Him. Reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes back
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Psalms
What I Read Day 13: Psalms 18-72 Day 14: Psalms 73-150 At this point I’m a day behind my original plan. I don’t think this is a big deal though since I’m exactly half way through 28 days and a little over half way through the Bible. My Impressions I found myself singing many of
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