In recent years, BASE Institute has been involved in painstaking research into Luke’s amazingly detailed account of Paul’s voyage and shipwreck off the coast of Malta, as recorded in Acts 27-28. This is exciting confirmation of the accuracy and truth in the Bible. In approximately 60 A.D., a ship carrying 276 men and a cargo of [...]
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Anchor from Paul’s Shipwreck Found off Malta?
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Pam Larson in Acts, Devotionals/Commentaries, FebruaryTags: Acts, Anchor from Paul's Shipwreck Found off Malta, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Paul, reliability of the Bible, Scripture
Behold, your king is coming to you!
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, MatthewTags: Behold your king is coming to you!, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Hosanna!, Jesus is King, Matthew, palm braches, Scripture
In today’s passage from Matthew 21, we read about Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, which was a fulfillment of prophecy. ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. They brought [...]
Be still… and let the mammoth realities of human lostness and eternal judgment and never-ending joy and God’s universal triumph take hold of you and change your life
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, PsalmsTags: Be Still! and KNOW Me (God)!, Be still... and let the mammoth realities of human lostness and eternal judgment and never-ending joy and God's universal triumph take hold of you and change your life, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Dr. John Piper, Psalms
Psalm 46 tells us that we all have a need to slow down and just “be still.” We need time for quiet reflection, but oh how little we actually do just that. John Piper, in a 1991 sermon, “God: Refuge for His People, Exalted Among the Nations” explains: One of the reasons we invest our lives [...]
The promise of the Jubilee
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, LeviticusTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Coty Pinckney, daily Bible, Jubilee is a celebration of liberty!, Leviticus, Scripture, The promise of the Jubilee, The Year of Jubilee
Let’s look at Leviticus 25, part of our read-through-the Bible plan for today: “‘Count off seven sabbaths of years– seven times seven years– so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of [...]
Why does God love impossible situations?
Posted: February 23, 2012 by Pam Larson in Acts, Devotionals/Commentaries, FebruaryTags: Acts, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Bob Deffinbaugh, daily Bible, Deffinbaugh: The stage is set for our omnipotent God to intervene., God's sovereignty, Scripture, Why does God love impossible situations?
Bob Deffinbaugh (Bible.org) comments on Paul and the shipwreck of Acts 27: Two full weeks had passed, and the storm showed no sign of weakening. No one had seen the sun, the moon, or the stars for many days (verse 20). Since ancient sailors navigated by the heavens, this meant they had no idea where [...]
Ryle: True faith under much rubbish
Posted: February 23, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, MatthewTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, J.C.Ryle, Matthew, Ryle: True faith under much rubbish, Scripture, True faith
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him. He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in [...]
Spurgeon: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away
Posted: February 23, 2012 by Pam Larson in Psalms, Devotionals/Commentaries, FebruaryTags: Bible reading, daily Bible, Scripture, Bible, Psalms, Charles Spurgeon, Treasury of David, Bible study, Bible daily, Spurgeon: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; Psalm 45:6 Charles H. Spurgeon helps us see the importance of God’s eternal throne: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away, for we need both sovereign grace [...]
God’s Calendar and the BIG questions of life
Posted: February 23, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, LeviticusTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Coty Pinckney, daily Bible, God's Calendar and the BIG questions of life, Leviticus, Sacrificial Calendar, Scripture
We’re almost to the end of our reading through Leviticus. Coty Pinckney has a very helpful summary, a look back at where we’ve been reading and some questions to prompt more study: This chapter (Leviticus 23) has been called God’s calendar, because it describes festivals God planned for the people of Israel. Most of us [...]
A heavenly messenger whispered words of encouragement
Posted: February 22, 2012 by Pam Larson in Acts, Devotionals/Commentaries, FebruaryTags: Bible reading, daily Bible, Scripture, Bible, Acts, Charles Spurgeon, apostles, Bible study, Paul, Paul's shipwreck, Bible daily, A heavenly messenger whispered words of encouragement
Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo. And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned. [...]
How should we then live?
Posted: February 25, 2012 by Pam Larson in Devotionals/Commentaries, February, LeviticusTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Coty Pinckney, Coty Pinckney: Who God is and who we are, daily Bible, how should we then live?, Leviticus, obedience, Scripture, YAHWEH
We have come to the FINAL day in Leviticus! Coty Pinckney wraps up our read-through with a challenge to see two big questions in Leviticus 26, “Who is GOD? ….and Who am I?” We have seen that the book of Leviticus is not, as is so commonly thought, a book which lays down the law, [...]