October 15 Ecclesiastes 12 (ESV) Remember Your Creator in Your Youth 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are … More October 15 Ecclesiastes 12
October 15 Jeremiah 39-43 (ESV) The Fall of Jerusalem 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach … More October 15 Jeremiah 39-43
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at … More See the grace and power of Jesus
Long ago, a Jewish king (Jehoiakim) was handed a scroll with a message from God (written by Jeremiah). As the words were read aloud, the king was offended, and with a small knife he cut out a part of the scroll and threw it into the fire. Whenever he heard things that angered him, he cut it off … More Cutting up your Bible?
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. —Ecclesiastes 11:5, in our read-through-the-Bible plan. Life is unpredictable and mysterious, just like the wind. The wind blows sovereignly. … More Trusting God with wind and bones
October 14 1 Peter 1:10-16 (ESV) 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. 12 It was revealed to them that … More October 14 1 Peter 1:10-16
October 14 John 4:43-54 (ESV) 43 After the two days he departed for Galilee. 44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone … More October 14 John 4:43-54
October 14 Ecclesiastes 11 (ESV) Cast Your Bread upon the Waters 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth. 3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on … More October 14 Ecclesiastes 11
October 14 Jeremiah 35-38 (ESV) The Obedience of the Rechabites 35:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: 2 “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the … More October 14 Jeremiah 35-38
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” —John 4:31-33 (4:27-42 is our reading for today) John Piper: For the fourth time in this … More Without the Holy Spirit we are spiritually blind and dull and unresponsive
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