Category: Devotional Readings

Just a quick note. I urge you to listen and read this chapter and to pay attention to the connection to the many themes in the text that are echoes in other parts of the Bible. For example I read earlier today....Joh 13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as… Continue reading Romans 13 – Echos in the Word

I wonder if it is possible to connect the great commission text to the scenes in the upper room in John 13?Mat 28:18  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Mat 28:19  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,… Continue reading John 13 – The Power to Wash Feet….

One more quick post...today's readings have all been quite rich...Here is the audio:  https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/Acts.8BTW I wrote earlier about false and good doctrine, there is a useful article here:http://www.challies.com/articles/test-every-doctrine-test-every-teacherAnd this quote is timely, since I can hardly read a verse without desiring to comment upon it:The sharp two-edged sword of the word of God is without a… Continue reading Acts 8 – False Teaching Revealed

Such a powerful chapter...There is much in here...think of the number of times Jesus refers to this idea.Isa 42:18  Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.Isa 42:5  Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of… Continue reading Isaiah 42 – Thus saith God the LORD…..