Today's Reading: Psalm 8:1-9Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 6:I want to spend a little more time today to dig into the idea of God's "steadfast love" (v. 4). That phrase is the translation of a single Hebrew ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 6:1-10Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 5 from Friday:The first thing that stands out here is the righteousness of God. He is completely holy and righteous and therefore He cannot allow e...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 5:1-12Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 3:I was really encouraged that God is a God who delights in blessing those who are willing to cry out to Him. He sustains, saves and protects His p...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 3:1-8Read the passage and answer these two questions:What doe this passage teach me about God and His attributes?How should that understanding about the nature of God impact the way that I live my life?My observations from Psalm 2:There are two attributes of God that stood out to me in this passage:His complete sovereignty. Earthly leaders (and us, too) may make their own pl...  Read More

Today's Reading: Psalm 2:1-12A.W. Tozer opens his book The Knowledge of the Holy, with these words:What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.I fully agree. And the only place we can develop a true concept of what God is really like is the Bible. So for the next several weeks, we're going to be reading through a selection of Psalms with one purpose - to ...  Read More

Today's Reading: Revelation 22:1-21If you've been with us since the first of the year, congratulations on completing the redemptive-historical reading plan! I pray that you have been blessed by seeing that from beginning to end the Bible is the story of God loving and redeeming His people through faith in His Son, Jesus.In the first part of the chapter, John finishes his description of the New Jer...  Read More

Today's Reading: Revelation 21:1-27In the last two chapters of the Bible, John describes his vision of the new heavens and new earth that will be the final fulfillment of all of God's promises that we have been reading about in our Bible reading plan this year.The New Jerusalem will be the eternal home for all those who have place their faith in Jesus. It is important to note that it will be a phy...  Read More

Today's Reading: Hebrews 8:1-13Here Jesus is described as the high priest of the "new covenant". The author cites Jeremiah 31 where God had promised to establish a new covenant with His chosen people. Jesus is the fulfillment of that promise. God always intended that the law and the Old Testament sacrifice system were only "a copy and shadow" of the new covenant that was inaugurated with the death...  Read More

Today's Reading: Ephesians 2:1-22This is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. Here Paul describes how Jesus made us alive when we were dead in our sins and could do nothing to make ourselves alive. In addition, Jesus reconciled both Gentiles and Jews to God and to each other through HIs death and resurrection. This is essentially the same thing we read in Romans 11 a few days ago when Paul wr...  Read More

Today's Reading: 1 Corinthian 15:1-58In this chapter Paul gives us more details about the future bodily resurrection for those who have put their faith in Jesus. Jesus is the "firstfruits" in the sense that it is His resurrection that gives us confidence that we will also experience a physical, bodily resurrection one day.When a disciple of Jesus dies, the spirit and soul of that person is immedia...  Read More

Today's Reading: Romans 11:1-36Paul reminds us that God is not finished with Israel yet even though they have consistently rebelled against Him. In fact, God even used their disobedience to make salvation available to the Gentiles, thus fulfilling the promise He mad to Abraham in Genesis 12 to bless all the world through his offspring.One of the big takeaways for me from this chapter is that God i...  Read More

Today's Reading: Acts 2:1-47When Peter began to preach on the day of Pentecost, he cited the passage from Joel 2 that we looked at a couple weeks ago. Those who were listening would have known that Peter was claiming that the "Day of the Lord" had been initiated by Jesus at His first coming. He also quoted from Psalm 16 to prove that the death and resurrection of Jesus was always God's plan for de...  Read More