10/14/2022 – Day 229 – Proverbs 17 – 18 // Which verses seemed to really grab you?
My mother told me early on from childhood: “Jimmy, if you have just one true friend your entire lifetime, consider yourself blessed.” Brother John, you will be …
Read More10/13/2022 – “The Fullness of Joy” // 2 of 2 : connection to our Semikkah7 bible reading for today.
The Fullness of joy
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Psalm 16:11 says: “In your presence is fullness of joy.” Do you want joy? Real joy? Of course you do! But you won’t find …
Read More10/13/2022 – Day 228 – Psalms 96 – 98 // 97:1: “The Lord reigns!…” / What is a “prophetic perfect” verb.? It is “Soli Deo Gloria” amazing, no?// 1 of 2 – Stay in His presence!
The sublime nature of praying the Psalms in repeated cycles is the rarity that I focus on the same prior verses for that day number. It is all about …
Read More10/12/2022 – Day 227 – 1 Chronicles 5 – 9 / “What is the relevance of the genealogies in the Bible?”
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-genealogies.html
Soli Deo Gloria!
Read More10/11/2022 – Day 226 – Numbers 1 – 4 // Why did the Lord command Moses to take a census of the Israelite community?
I am going to share short excerpts from Matthew Henry’s commentary to help us out . I mean short in relative terms, given that Matthew’s commentary book comes in …
Read More10/12/2022 – Who really invented baseball?
https://www.mlb.com/astros/video/alvarez-s-438-foot-walk-off-hr?t=statcast
It wasn’t Abner Doubleday, who may or may not have been the messenger. Therefore, as much as we love the game and the Astros, it is not an …
Read More10/10/2022 – Day 225 – John 5 – 6 // Compare and contrast denomination differences in John 6 interpretation of the “Eucharist”; and, Can we hold onto “one body in Christ”, yet recognize that we can’t worship together physically in Sunday worship? . And more to: How then shall we live?…
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-catholics-believe-about-john-6
I will give a little background to myself for the context of this discussion a to the proper interpretation of John 6. In the Sacrament of the Eucharist …
Read More10/10/2022 – “True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.” Jonathan Edwards
Soli Deo Gloria!
Read More10/10/2022 – Babylon Bee: “Thousands of Religious Zealots Gather for Sunday Worship.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/thousands-of-religious-zealots-gather-for-sunday-worship
Read More10/24/2022 – Day 224 – 2 Thessalonians 1 – 3 // Day of the Lord
First I will share Halley’s Bible Handbook’s commentary – pg 629:
”Written probably around A.D. 52, only a few weeks, or months, after the First Epistle that Paul had spoken of …
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