Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Exodus 17-20 In Exodus 18, Jethro told Moses that his procedure, or lack of one, in hearing the people was not good. Moses would soon wear himself out with the countless demands upon his time. Jethro advised him to think differently about things. Jethro told him that he could actually…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 2 Corinthians 1-3 In autobiographical style, Paul began, in chapter 2, with the fact that his commitment to preaching the gospel of Christ had compelled him to go to Troas, a city in modern Turkey. Paul had been there on his second missionary journey. From there he determined to go…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Job 33-34 Saturday: Jeremiah 22-26 Sunday: Mark 13-14 During the difficult days of World War II, a young Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto of Poland managed to escape over the wall and hide in a cave. Tragically, she died shortly before the Allied army broke into the ghetto to…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Psalm 48-50 Jerusalem was the chosen city of God, the place where his divine glory had been most fully put on display. In Jerusalem David united the kingdom and brought the ark of the covenant. In Jerusalem Solomon built the temple, a house for God’s glory. In Jerusalem Christ presented…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 2 Samuel 1-4 No one who knew Kurt Warner in the early 1990s at the University of Northern Iowa would have predicted that he would be picked as the most valuable player of Super Bowl XXXIV less than ten years later. But he was. On January 30, 2000, quarterback Kurt…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Exodus 13-16 A grandfather and his grandson were on a walk. As they walked along the trail, the grandfather pointed to a small plant and told the young boy to uproot the small plant. The boy did so easily. They came to a slightly larger plant, and the grandfather told…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Corinthians 15-16 When Christians speak to unbelievers, they often discover that the truths of Scripture that we hold so dear are disbelieved, even mocked by unbelievers. Now in many circles it is not so strange that we believe in God. It does not even seem odd to many people…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Job 31-32 Saturday: Jeremiah 17-21 Sunday: Mark 11-12 A man was traveling on a lonely road in Japan when he was robbed and killed. Two supposed witnesses claimed that Ishimatsu Yoshid, an innocent bystander, committed the crime. One of them grabbed Yoshid and started beating him, yelling, “Confess.” “No,” Ishimatsu…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Psalm 45-47 The first institution that God established was marriage, an expression of his goodness to man. Beginning with the first wedding ceremony in Eden, each subsequent joining of a man and woman together in marriage is a celebration of God’s blessing upon his creation. Psalm 45 reflects this divine…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Samuel 26-31 I believe verses 8-16 of chapter 26 is the climax of this entire story. Saul was sleeping inside the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head. This was the spear that Saul had used to try to kill David and Jonathan. It was…