The second half of John covers the life of Jesus from the death of Lazarus until Jesus leaves to ascend. It reminds us of why Jesus came: to glorify God and love others. I found it encouraging that John included Mary’s distress towards Jesus regarding the death of Lazarus. She wept before Jesus and...
In Numbers, 21-29, God couldn’t have made it more obvious that Israel was a blessed nation. Everyone that encountered them in battle was defeated and wiped out. They defeated the King of Arad, King Sihon and the Amorites and King Og of Bashan. Through Balaam, God showed Balak, the Moabites and the Midians that...
Continuing on through Numbers, we see that the Israelites are a doubting nation. Israel has become a whining, ungrateful and untrusting congregation. The Lord is providing food for them, but it is not good enough. He has given them leaders that have a direct line to God to tell them what to do and...
Three books down, 63 more to go! Consequently, I have been dreading reading some portions of the Bible and one of those books was Leviticus. While I have read Leviticus before, my knowledge consisted of knowing it contained a lot of the Law and frankly reading about a lot of rules does not sound...
In a change of pace, I listened to the selection via audio book, The Word of Promise Audio Bible while out doing school pick up and drop off. I still had to read the passage to take my notes, but it was a really nice change of pace to hear the Bible read dramatically....
