How Good Is The God We Adore
Today’s Reading: Psalm 78 Not sure what a ‘maskil’ is (Hebrew word meaning – enlightenment, wisdom, knowledge, attentive?), but fitting that Asaph, the leader of the Temple choir (or whatever
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Today’s Reading: Zechariah 7:1-14; 8:1-23; Ezra 6:14-22 “Do not be afraid. These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound
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Today’s reading: Zechariah 1:7-21, 2:1-13; 3:1-10; 4:1-14; 5:1-11; 6:1-15 Sorry! Once again, this section talking of horns and priests lost me! But, God is gracious – I understand this one
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Today’s Reading: Haggai 1-2; Zechariah 1:1-6 You expected see much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why? … Because of my
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Today’s Reading: Ezra 4:6-24; 5:1-6:13 To steal Rob Pilkington’s favourite phrase, “what I love about this story is…” that the men who wanted to stop the construction of Jerusalem and
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A couple of thoughts about reading futuristic Bible prophecies (like today’s reading): Often a prophecy speaks of more than one time period. For example, Old Testament passages pointing ahead to
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It seems to me that a key phrase in the first sections is that God “moved the heart…” – first of Cyrus and then of the family heads of Judah
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Today’s Reading: Daniel 1:21; 6 It almost seems appropriate that such a grand old well-known story as the story of Daniel in the lion’s den should have a day to
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Today’s Reading: Daniel 7:1-28; 8:1-27 Are you confused? I confess I am. I usually do not remember my dreams, but Daniel seems to remember his dreams so vividly. Considering I
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Today’s Reading: Psalm 102, 106, 123, 137 “let my cry for help come to you” Does that sound familiar? It is so familiar to me because I do that all
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