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Bible in 90 Days – Day 19 – Judges 15-21, Ruth, 1 Samuel 1-2 Judges 17:6 “In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges is a hard book to read. Only a single generation after Joshua’s generation: the same generation that followed the pillar […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 18 – Judges 3-15 Judges 6:15-16 ESV “And [Gideon] said to [the angel] ‘Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” And the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, […]
Day 17 – Joshua 15 – Judges 3 “Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.” Joshua 21:45 ESV They did it! All the promises God had made to Israel about the possession of the land had come to […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 16 – Joshua 1-14 Joshua 11:22 ESV “There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel.” The feared giants, descendants of the Nephilim, the very people that Israel pointed at to say “taking the promised land is impossible!” – all gone, just as […]
Day 13 – Numbers 32-36 & Deuteronomy 1-7 No devotional thought for today as I prepare for my reformation day sermon. Day 14 & 15 – Deuteronomy 8-34 Skipping devotional thoughts for Deuteronomy as we are in the middle of a sermon series on the book. Here our thoughts there!
Bible in 90 days – Day 12 – Numbers 21-32 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. Numbers 21:9 – ESV God’s artistry in foreshadowing here is astonishing. When God provides the solution for a […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 11 – Numbers 9-21 Numbers 14:9-10 – Caleb and Joshua to Israel after spying out the promised land: “Do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land… …Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones.” Caleb saw the situation through eyes […]
Bible in 90 Days – Day 10 – Numbers 1-8 Today’s reading is about the “kickoff” of the tabernacle service of the Levites. So much attention to detail of precisely how many people were present, precisely where they were to camp, how they were to set up and tear down, precisely how much money was […]
Bible in 90 Days – Day 9 – Leviticus 15-27 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.” Leviticus 19:17 ESV Conflict avoidance can lead to sin. When God set up the laws for His holy nation, he forbade […]
Bible in 90 Days – Day 8 – Leviticus 1-14 Today’s readings contains vast detail about the bloody sacrifices required to atone for sin. It is an important reminder of what sin does. Sin is horrific: think of the killing floor at a slaughterhouse. That was the scene at the tabernacle. Our sin causes this. […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 7 – Exodus 29-40 “He has filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every kind of craft” Exodus? ?35:31? ?CSB?? The first mention of someone being filled with God’s Spirit in the Bible is a craftsman. Selah. (I’m closing out 2017 by reading through the […]
Bible in 90 days – Day 6 – Exodus 15-28 “You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone.” Exodus 18:18 CSB Recounting the Exodus, Moses remembers and records this interaction with his recently converted father-in-law. I have […]