Category: Devotional Readings

It seems odd, even the smells are said to be holy. This has a direct impact on burning incense, for one's own private worship as I read it. So much for making those personal altars...even if it is of good intent. There are lots of other ways we try to worship, (even the true God… Continue reading Exodus 30:37-38 Your Personal Incense Altar

Gal 2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.Gal 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or… Continue reading Galatians 2 – Paul recounts his visit to the Jerusalem Council

It's curious that three times in today's readings the subject of the poor came up.Mat 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.Gal 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.Pro 21:13 Whoso stoppeth his ears at… Continue reading Remember the Poor

Paul will further these thoughts in Romans and in 1 Corinthians 15.Gal 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we… Continue reading Galatians 2 – Choice Words on Faith