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NOVEMBER 6- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- Ezekiel 14:12-16:41; Hebrews 7:18-28; Psalm 106:1-12; Proverbs 27:4-6
HEADLINES FROM TODAY’S BIBLE READINGS: Here are today’s top stories: EZEKIEL 14- Israel’s Dream Team Lawyers Fail to Persuade Supreme Court; Noah, Daniel and Job are unable to produce sufficient evidence to avert National Death Sentence. EZEKIEL 15- God Offers His...
NOVEMBER 5- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- EZEKIEL 12:1-14:11; HEBREWS 7:1-17; PSALMS 105:37-45; PROVERBS 27:3
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- EZEKIEL 12:1-14:11 It is instructive to note words and phrases that are repeated often in a book of the Bible. We certainly see significant repeated words and phrases in today’s reading in the Book of Ezekiel. Judah and Israel...
NOVEMBER 4 TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- EZEKIEL 10:1-11:25; HEBREWS 6:1-20; PSALM 105:16-36; PROVERBS 27:1-2
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- EZEKIEL 10:1-11:25. Ezekiel is speaking in apocalyptic language, the language of revelation. He is describing what he is seeing to the best of his ability, within the limits of human language. We read of ‘the likeness of a...
NOVEMBER 3- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- EZEKIEL 7:1-9:11; HEBREWS 5:1-14; PSALMS 105:1-15; PROVERBS 26:28
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- EZEKIEL 7:1-9:11 In the earlier chapters (1-6) Ezekiel saw the vision of the glory of God in the plain by the river Kebar in Babylon. The thrust of the vision was that God was behind the judgments that were falling upon Judah....
NOVEMBER 2 TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- EZEKIEL 3:16- 6:14; HEBREWS 4:1-16; PSALM 104:24-35; PROVERBS 26:27
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- EZEKIEL 3:16- 6:14; The Commissioning of Ezekiel, the priest turned prophet, continues. The Lord says to Ezekiel: “I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel”. A watchman was a city employee who is given the...
NOVEMBER 1- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- EZEKIEL 1:1-3:15; HEBREWS 3:1-19; PSALMS 104:1-23; PROVERBS 26:24-26
OCTOBER 31- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- LAMENTATIONS 4:1-5:22; HEBREWS 2:1-18; PSALMS 103:1-22; PROVERBS 26:23
Today is Reformation Day, commemorating Martin Luther delivering the 95 Theses on October 31, 1517, triggering a widespread rediscovery of the good news of salvation by faith alone, in Christ alone, by grace alone. “Post tenebris, lux!” After the darkness, light! May...
OCTOBER 30 – TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- LAMENTATIONS 2:20-3:66; HEBREWS 1:1-14; PSALMS 102:1-28; PROVERBS 26:21-22
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- LAMENTATIONS 2:2- 3:66 The prophet (most likely Jeremiah) laments the tragedy of Judah’s fall in 587 BC. During the siege of Jerusalem, conditions were so bleak that the starving people resorted to cannibalism (Lamentations...
OCTOBER 29- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- LAMENTATIONS 1:1-2:19; PHILEMON 1:1-25; PSALMS 101:1-8; PROVERBS 26:20
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- LAMENTATIONS 1:1-2:19 The first words of chapters 1, 2, and 4 are “How?” It is a word of astonishing grief. The question is asked: How did this happen? How widespread is this disaster? How long will we bear this judgment? “How...
OCTOBER 28- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- JEREMIAH 51:54-52:34; TITUS 3:1-15; PSALM 100:1-5; PROVERBS 26:18-19
Today is the anniversary of John Eliot preaching the gospel to the Massachusett tribe gathered at Nonantum, (Newton, MA) on October 28, 1648, and the conversion of their leader from Musketequid, Waban, who established the Praying Indian Village of Natick. We finish...