Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Exodus 9-12 As we study the account of the plagues of Egypt, keep in mind the purposes God was fulfilling through these momentous events. First of all, He was manifesting His power to Pharaoh and his officials and proving to them that He alone is the true and living God.…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Corinthians 13-14 It was Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver’s Travels, who said, “We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Spiritual gifts, no matter how exciting and wonderful, are useless and even destructive if they are not ministered…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Job 29-30 Saturday: Jeremiah 12-16 Sunday: Mark 9-10 I love this illustration that I read. Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor, suffered a devastating loss one night in December 1914. His laboratory and facility were damaged by fire. Most of his projects were destroyed. Almost one million dollars’ worth of…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Psalm 42-44 William Cowper, although not real popular, was one of the church’s greatest hymn writers, a person mightily used by God. However, this gifted composer was not without frequent bouts of deep discouragement, even depression. The first attacks of despair struck him when he was a young man. He…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Samuel 21-25 Many Christians regard Charles Haddon Spurgeon to be the “Prince of Preachers.” He often preached to crowds of more than 5,000, and his sermons sold nearly 20,000 copies a week and were translated into 20 different languages. His collected sermons are still in print in more than…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Exodus 5-8 The two great qualifications of a called prophet were to know the Lord God and faithfully to announce His words to the people. God called Moses and separated him for this very task. God disclosed himself to Moses in a fuller measure than the patriarchs before him. To…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Job 27-28 Paul Robert, internationally acclaimed artist, was commissioned to paint a mural that would hang in the stairway leading up to the supreme court in Switzerland. After much careful thought, Robert chose to express on canvas what Samuel Rutherford had spoken earlier in provocative words, the title of the…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Psalm 39-41 God disciplines his children when they sin, not because he is unloving but because he does love them. True love is tough love. Real love is that which seeks the highest and best in the one who is loved. How a person reacts to the chastening hand of…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Samuel 16-20 The entire church listens with acute attention as the pastor calls the kids forward for the children’s message. One Sunday, he held up two bananas. The first was discolored with brown and black spots all over the skin. The second banana was smooth and yellow with no…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Exodus 1-4 Have you ever wondered why British sailors are called “limeys”? Well, hundreds of years ago, modern medicine was still in its infancy. Sailors would drop like flies from scurvy on long sea voyages. But British sailors accidentally discovered a truth that was to impact the health and lives…