Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Numbers 30-31 Key Thought: There is an illustration about a Wycliffe missionary who tells about an encounter with a five-year-old neighbor boy. While she was washing breakfast dishes, she saw Jimmy heading straight toward the back porch. She had just finished painting the back-porch handrails and was proud of her…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Numbers 27-29 Key Thought: Joshua came from a long line of leadership. No doubt he had heard many stories about God’s deliverance throughout the history of Israel. Now he was to succeed the greatest leader Israel had ever known. And, as human nature goes, some might wonder whether he was…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Numbers 1-2 Key Thought: A census was an administrative tool that aided the leadership in everything from tax collection to a military draft. At the Lord’s command Moses numbered the people and taxed them for a sanctuary tax so he could construct the tabernacle (Exodus 30). He counted males twenty…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 26-27 Key Thought: The tithe is man’s acknowledgment that he is a steward of God’s creation. The Lord alone is Creator and owner of heaven and earth, and man is God’s servant. Whatever material wealth man can accumulate is the direct gift of God. Therefore, in the tithe, man…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 24-25 Key Thought: There was an article in National Geographic several years ago that provides a penetrating picture of God’s wings. After a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, forest rangers began their march up a mountain to assess the fires damage. One ranger found a bird literally petrified…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 22-23 Key Thought: Henry Ward Beecher said, “Religion means work; it means hard work; it means work in a dirty world. The world has to be cleaned by somebody and you are not really called of God unless you are prepared to scour and scrub.” Having lived on a…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 13:47-15:33 Saturday: Leviticus 16-18 Sunday: Leviticus 19-21 Key Thought: I don’t know about you, but these chapters are difficult to navigate through. It can tend to get a bit tedious and extremely detailed. Why did God have the mother who had given birth wait for a time before entering…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 11:1-13:46 Key Thought: Chapter 11 deals with all the rules about eating. Moses, under inspiration, reveals what is considered clean and unclean. God did not fully give the reasons why certain foods were unclean, although He did give us some hints. Not all matters rendered unclean by God were…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 8-10 Key Thought: The lesson that our reading teaches us today is to trust the Lord with all our heart. (Prov. 3:5-7) As a royal priesthood in Christ, we are called to a higher standard as we serve the Lord with gladness and come before His presence with singing.…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Leviticus 5-7 Key Thought: It just cannot be said better than this: In his book Written in Blood, Robert Coleman tells the story of a little boy whose sister needed a blood transfusion. The doctor had explained that she had the same disease the boy had recovered from two years…