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: 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: 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…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: 1 Corinthians 9-10 In chapter 8 Paul set out the limits of Christian liberty, limits that are to be determined by brotherly love, by concern for the welfare of fellow Christians. He summarizes the principle as, “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Job 25-26 Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist of the early twentieth century, was once approached by a talkative woman who tried to justify the speaking of her mind by saying, “I just speak my mind and it is over quickly.” To which the evangelist replied, “So is a shotgun blast.”…