Today we come to Revelation 1:9-20 in our reading plan. Here are helpful comments from John Piper, in a sermon, “A Year-End Look at Jesus Christ” The voice says in [Revelation 1] v. 11, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches.” This means that the vision John is … More See Jesus through Revelation
As we read on in John 14:15-21 today, we see statements in John 14-16 confirm that Jesus thinks of the Holy Spirit as a person not a mere force. From John Piper, in a sermon, “The Holy Spirit: He Is God!” 1) Jesus calls him “another Counselor” in 14:16, “I will pray the Father and … More Impersonal force from a distant God or a Person?
Is it your heart cry to KNOW God? To press on to KNOW Him? In Hosea 4 (part of our Bible reading plan today) we read, “Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, … More Press on to KNOW Him!
In Job 24, in our reading plan today, we see that Job does not understand how God can allow the strong to exploit the weak? When will judgment come? Why? When? How? Kim Riddlebarger comments in a sermon on this section of Job: None of this fits with Job’s hope in a coming redeemer. It … More For a little while…
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger helps introduce us to the reading of Revelation this month: …it is sad that so many Christians avoid Revelation because of its difficult and mysterious nature. It is even sadder, perhaps, that so many use this book as a springboard for speculation about the Bible’s relationship to current events. This is a … More A book about the risen and exalted Christ
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (verses 1-14 in our reading plan today) One year, we had a Chinese couple in our outreach Bible study group who were intrigued with the Christian message and especially with … More One way: Jesus and Jiaozi
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. Job 23:10 (Job 23 in our reading plan today) Job knew that God could find him anywhere, even when it appeared that he couldn’t find God. Deep down, Job knew the truth. The truth had just … More Tested and purified
This is a long quote, but will help understand our readings in Hosea this month- Ray Stedman comments on the first 3 chapters of Hosea: So Hosea is rather discouraged and in the opening chapter of this little book of prophecy we read a personal note about him. He went to God and God told … More An object lesson in redeeming love
Thank you for joining us on our read-through-the-Bible journey this year! I hope you will start up again in January! I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, but … More This is the last chapter of the Bible, and this is the last duty of man:
Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25 J.C. Ryle wraps up our reading of John: As much of Christ’s sayings and doings is recorded as the mind … More J.C. Ryle: There is enough and to spare.
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