Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Deuteronomy 7-9; Acts 2 Devotional Thought: The book of Deuteronomy is the fifth and final book of what is known as the Pentateuch. In it, Moses restates much of what this young nation of Israel had been taught about God, and about their relationship and responsibilities to Him. Moses delivers three…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Deuteronomy 1-3; Acts 1 Devotional Thought: The work of redemption is complete, Christ finished the work that His Father had given Him to do (John 17:1-3); however, the ministry of proclamation, a continuing responsibility of the saints is introduced here in Acts 1. During Christ’s earthly ministry, He was the primary…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Joel 1-3; Philippians 4 Devotional Thought: In the book of Joel we find the prophet helping God’s people deal with natural disasters as he explains the significance of them. As natural disasters hit, it is troubling that only a few people ever ask, “What is God trying to teach me?” What…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 51-52; Philippians 3 Devotional Thought: Philippians 3 is a tremendous challenge for all Christians. We must learn to let God be preeminent! Paul starts by giving his list of qualifiers that would impress any carnal person. Paul was clear that his opinion of his qualifications were that they were counted…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 50; Philippians 2 Devotional Thought: Philippians 2 is known as the kenosis passage. It is the doctrine of the deity of Christ as He laid aside the use of His 100% Deity as He lived as 100% man. The first few verses of this chapter deal with the unity those…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 48-49; Philippians 1 Devotional Thought: Paul starts this wonderful book of the Bible out, under inspiration, to explain the joy there should be in the local church. He addresses this book to Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints that are at Philippi along with the bishops…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 43-44; Matthew 28 Devotional Thought: Persuading someone to tell a lie to try to cover the truth will never work. The truth will always come out in time. How sad it is that as the greatest event in the history known to man has happened, there is still a desire,…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 37-39 Devotional Thought: In Jeremiah 37, we find Jeremiah giving the same message to Zedekiah that he has given to him over and over. The message from the Lord had not changed, but Zedekiah was unwilling to accept it. It seems that Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to pray again hoping God…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 34-36 Devotional Thought: A few days ago we read how Jeremiah plead with King Zedekiah and the leaders about how to approach Babylon, but he did not listen to the wise counsel of Jeremiah. (27:1-22) When God sends a message to us, we had better learn to listen to it…
Pastor’s Bible Reading Schedule: Jeremiah 33; Matthew 26 Devotional Thought: In Matthew 26, we find the religious leaders plotting how they could kill Jesus. “Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and consulted that they might…