Day 39 OBEDIENCE…AND MORE DIRTY WORK [Scheduled Reading: Jeremiah 35-50] I love the story of the Rechabites (Jeremiah 35). God picks out...

Day 38 CONTEXT [Scheduled Reading: Jeremiah 18-34] One of the cool experiences about power-reading through the Bible is the opportunity...

Day 37 DIRTY JOBS [Scheduled Reading: Jeremiah 1-17] There was a TV show called, Dirty Jobswhere host Mike Rowe took on the most...

Day 36 ARE YOU CONNECTING THE DOTS? [Scheduled Reading: Isaiah 48-66] I’m beginning to see why Bible students love the prophets. Are you?...

Day 35 A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS [Schedule Reading: Isaiah 32-47] A voice cries: ‘in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make...

Day 34 HITTING THE WALL [Schedule Reading: Isaiah 10-31] Marathon runners (which I am not) know about hitting "the wall.” The wall is...

Day 33 TRANSITION TIME [Scheduled Reading: Ecclesiastes 9-12, Songs, Isaiah 1-9] We’re coming out of the wisdom literature and heading...

Day 32 MEANINGLESS, MEANINGLESS [Schedule Reading: Proverbs 20-31, Ecclesiastes 1-8] Ecclesiastes is another one of my favorite books....

Who Is This? We read about famous people all the time. The news organizations tell us with minute details all about their lives: what...

Day 31 HALFTIME [Scheduled Reading: Proverbs 1-19] Today is the beginning of the second half. You’ve read thru half the Bible in 30 days....

He Just Doesn’t Get It The most powerful leader in Egypt, Pharoah, would not let the children of Israel go. He refused to listen to...

Restoration... He restores my soul... Psalm 23:3a NKJV Let’s take a look at one of the re words that come up so frequently in the...

Set Aside Distractions The world makes it easy for us to fill our ears with all kinds of things that drown out the voice of God and push...

Ponder For A Moment In today’s scripture passages, the reader is given several questions to ponder and two particular questions lead to...

The Noise Of Despair Sometimes sadness, despair, and discouragement seem so heavy and dark that we can’t even hear the pin-prick light of...

Great … Like A Child Once again the upside down, backwards, unexpected world of God’s kingdom is in full view when the disciples ask our...

The Shock Of Glory Like Peter, James and John, we sometimes take the wonder and glory of God too lightly. He becomes quite ordinary; just...

Worse … Then Better Egypt was not the ‘promised land.’ Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s descendants had been there for 400 years, but it was...

A Father’s Blessing We have gotten away from it in modern times, but in patriarchal days a father’s blessing was powerful. It reflected...

Happy Endings Numbers are important in Scripture. They are not magical, but they are informative and symbolic many times. If six is the...