February 25 Acts 28:17-31 (ESV) Paul in Rome 17 After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the [...]
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February 25 Acts 28:17-31
Posted: February 25, 2012 by Pam Larson in Acts, Bible Passages, February Bible ReadingsTags: Acts, apostles, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, February Bible Readings, Scripture
February 25 Matthew 21:12-22
Posted: February 25, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, February Bible Readings, MatthewTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, February Bible Readings, Jesus, Matthew, Scripture
February 25 Matthew 21:12-22 (ESV) Jesus Cleanses the Temple 12 And Jesus entered the temple [1] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but [...]
February 25 Psalm 47
Posted: February 25, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, February Bible Readings, PsalmsTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, February Bible Readings, God, Psalms, Scripture
February 25 Psalm 47 (ESV) God Is King over All the Earth To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 47:1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! 2 For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. 3 He subdued peoples under [...]
February 25 Leviticus 26-27
Posted: February 25, 2012 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, February Bible Readings, LeviticusTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, February Bible Readings, God, Leviticus, Scripture
February 25 Leviticus 26-27 (ESV) Blessings for Obedience 26:1 “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. 3 “If [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 24 Acts 28:1-16
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Pam Larson in Acts, Bible Passages, February Bible ReadingsTags: Acts, apostles, Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, February Bible Readings, Scripture
February 24 Acts 28:1-16 (ESV) Paul on Malta 28:1 After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta. 2 The native people [1] showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold. 3 When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put [...]
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, [...]