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Jan 9, 2015
Facing a Crisis; Dealing with Failure
Today’s reading: Genesis 25-26; Matthew 9:1-17 How do you face a crisis? How do you handle failure, sin, and guilt? Isaac faced a crisis,...
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Jan 8, 2015
The Dramatic and the Mundane
Today’s reading: Genesis 23-24; Matthew 8 Life unfolds mostly in ordinary, everyday ways. Mostly, but then there are days that one senses...
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Jan 7, 2015
Faith Works
Today’s reading: Genesis 20-22; Matthew 7 God calls us to believe in Him but, more importantly, to believe Him. Abraham believed God or...
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Jan 6, 2015
What’s important? I forget.
Today’s reading: Genesis 18-19; Matthew 6 What should we be worried about? To put it another way, what’s really important? If God had not...
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Jan 6, 2015
God Keeps His Promises
Today’s reading: Genesis 15-17; Matthew 5:27-48 God made Man to live in a perfect world without strife and hostility. After the fall, God...
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Jan 4, 2015
The Struggle for Sanctification
Today’s reading: Genesis 12-14; Matthew 5:1-26 A reality for every believer is the awareness that our actions are too frequently...
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Jan 3, 2015
The Continuing Need for Repentance
Today’s reading: Genesis 9-11; Matthew 4 The cosmic battle continues after the flood. Mankind, united by one language and forgetting the...
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Jan 2, 2015
Water: Judgment or Deliverance?
Today’s reading: Genesis 6-8; Matthew 3 God exercises His power in judgment on sinful mankind with a universal flood. Even in the flood,...
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Jan 1, 2015
Hope for the Cosmic Conflict
Today’s reading: Genesis 3-5; Matthew 2 In Genesis 3, temptation and sin enter the human experience. By listening to the serpent and...
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Dec 31, 2014
In the beginning, God
Today’s reading: Genesis 1-2; Matthew 1 (click on the reference to open the reading in a new window) Welcome to a new year in the Bible....
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Dec 24, 2014
The Christmas Story from the Bible
Here are the biblical narratives about Jesus’ birth from Matthew and Luke and a summary statement about who He was and is in the Epistle...
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Feb 8, 2014
How great is His salvation!
My reading today took me to Leviticus and Matthew. It’s dramatic to read the laws about Old Testament sacrifices along side the accounts...
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