Tag: Bible reading

Piper: look at your life, think hard about what you are doing, and get ruthless about what stays and what goes.

September 22, 2025

John Piper, comments on Hebrews 12, as we read verses 1-13 in our plan today. One more illustration: in Hebrews 12:12-13 the writer says, “Strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out … More Piper: look at your life, think hard about what you are doing, and get ruthless about what stays and what goes.

Beware of Using Flattery

September 22, 2025

We’ve arrived at Proverbs 29 in our read-through-the-Bible plan. Here is a quote from Jon Bloom in an article at Desiring God: God tells us “a man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet” (Proverbs 29:5). That’s what makes it evil. Whether or not flattering words have truth in them, their purpose … More Beware of Using Flattery

It is not a compromise for the lofty One whose name is Holy to dwell with crushed and humble saints.

September 22, 2025

Today we read Isaiah 56-58.   For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart … More It is not a compromise for the lofty One whose name is Holy to dwell with crushed and humble saints.

September 22 Luke 24:13-27

September 22, 2025

September 22  Luke 24:13-27 (ESV) On the Road to Emmaus 13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles [1] from Jerusalem, 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened. 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went … More September 22 Luke 24:13-27

September 22 Isaiah 56-58

September 22, 2025

September 22 Isaiah 56-58 (ESV) Salvation for Foreigners 56:1 Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand … More September 22 Isaiah 56-58

Running the marathon route

September 21, 2025

Hebrews 11:39-40  And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,  since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect. John Piper, in a sermon “Running With the Witnesses” I take verse 39 to mean that when the believers in the … More Running the marathon route

God does not always work miracles and acts of providence for our deliverance from suffering

September 21, 2025

    Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of … More God does not always work miracles and acts of providence for our deliverance from suffering