Pastor’s Blog
SEPTEMBER 14- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 15:1-18:7; GALATIANS 1:1-24; PSALM 58:1-11; PROVERBS 23:12
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 15:1-18:7 In Chapters 15 and 16 Isaiah pronounces his prophecy against Moab. (A prophecy is sometimes called an oracle or burden). Moabites were descendants of Moab, the son born through Lot’s incestuous relationship with...
SEPTEMBER 13 – TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 12:1-14:32; 2 CORINTHIANS 13:1-14; PSALM 57:1-11; PROVERBS 23:9-11.
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 12:1-14:32 The series of prophecies that began in Chapter 7 comes to an end in Chapter 12. The prophecies began with a series of judgments upon God’s people. First, he gave a prophecy to King Ahaz about God first...
SEPTEMBER 12 TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 10:1- 11:16; 2 CORINTHIANS 12:11-21; PSALM 56:1-13; PROVERBS 23:6-8
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 10:1- 11:16 We continue to read Isaiah’s series of prophecies that have both short and long-term fulfillments of an invading darkness and a coming dawn. There is the prophecy of the Assyrian conquest of the northern...
SEPTEMBER 11- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE – ISAIAH 8:1- 9:21; 2 CORINTHIANS 12: 1- 10; PSALM 55:1-23; PROVERBS 23:4-5
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 8:1- 9:21 Today we continue reading a series of Isaiah’s prophecies given during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah (Isaiah Chapters 7-12). The prophets were assigned to communicate God’s Word to the Kings of Israel and...
SEPTEMBER 10- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 6:1-7:25; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:16-33; PSALM 54:1-7; PROVERBS 23:1-3
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 6:1-7:25 Chapter 6 describes how Isaiah is commissioned to his prophetic office. When King Uzziah dies in 740 BC, Judah lost a great leader. His vacancy on the throne was widely-felt. Some consider Uzziah the last great...
SEPTEMBER 9 – TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 3:1- 5:30; 2 CORINTHIANS 11:1-15; PSALM 53:1-6; PROVERBS 22:28-29
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 3:1- 5:30 To whom much is given, much will be required (See Luke 12:48). Those who are given much light will be judged more severely. In the first section of Isaiah, we read much about the judgment of nations. But Isaiah...
SEPTEMBER 8 – TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ISAIAH 1:1-2:22; 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1-18; PSALM 52:1-9; PROVERBS 22:26-27
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- ISAIAH 1:1-2:22 The Hebrew Old Testament Scriptures are referred to as “The Tanakh” (sometimes spelled, Tanach). The name is a composite term made up of the leading consonants of the three major sections of their Bible, which...
SEPTEMBER 7- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- SONG OF SONGS 5:1-8:14; 2 CORINTHIANS 9:1-15; PSALMS 51:1-19; PROVERBS 22:24-25
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- SONG OF SONGS 5:1-8:14. There are two books in the Bible where ‘God’ is not mentioned- The Book of Esther and The Song of Solomon. Yet we have already seen how God is present in the Book of Esther. He is actually the unseen hero...
SEPTEMBER 6- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1-4:16; 2 CORINTHIANS 8:16-24; PSALM 50:1-23; PROVERBS 22:22-23
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1-4:16 Today we leave behind the Book of “Vanity of Vanities” (Ecclesiastes) and start reading the “Song of Songs” (The Song of Solomon). The former book dealt with life “under the sun”, lived within the...
SEPTEMBER 5- TODAY’S READING FROM THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- ECCLESIASTES 10:1-12:14; 2 CORINTHIANS 8:1-15; PSALM 49:1-20; PROVERBS 22:20-21
TODAY’S READING FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT- - ECCLESIASTES 10:1-12:14. The reporter contrasts the wise and the foolish. Wisdom is the skill of knowing the right thing to do and doing it. Wisdom is learning what God has commanded and then putting these commands into...