Daily Help for Bible-Reading Men and Their Families
(students and servants of Jesus Christ)
For First-Time Bible Readers: Forty Days and Nights to Faith
For Everyone Else: There’s more than enough of the word of God in each daily portion below to feed the whole family all day long. Don’t overeat; just eat until you’re full, and then go work it off so you don’t just get fat. Always eat the “Basics,” and let the “Extras” be extra. If I ever miss setting this table, you can always find the ingredients to lay it yourself in the Bible Reader’s Toolkit.
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Monday, March 31, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this,
that God has given us eternal life,
and this life is in His Son.
(And there is no other way to live that life except by faith – that is, by walking in the spirit.)
Essentials
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 8:9 O LORD, our Lord, / How majestic is Your name in all the earth! – This is our aspiration – alas, not our observation.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ the Righteous One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: Satan Wants to Censor History (0:43)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Thoughts of Others: Irrespective of his political views, it’s hard to argue that Elon Musk is not the smartest businessman of his generation. Although he’s not spiritual enough to realize that he should be following Christ’s teachings on marriage and family, he’s got enough business sense to realize that a decrease in the number of potential customers means the value of his businesses could collapse before he does. (1:23 video clip March 28, 2025) Why do so few other smart people recognize this obvious dilemma?
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded the first chapter (Chapter 1 – The Design of Marriage) of the audio version of The Honor of Marriage.
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 65:4 How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.
(Under the new covenant, His temple is spiritual;
therefore, drawing near to it requires movement of the heart, not of the body.)
Essentials
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Over and over, the apostles agree: 1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 7:17 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: Chronological Snobbery (1:08)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: One of the criticisms I get about my teaching is that I don’t believe that God is a trinity. The main reason I don’t believe it is that the Bible doesn’t teach it, but my critics label me a heretic even though they can’t show me where the Bible teaches it. And now consider this: George Barna reported just this week that “only 11% of U.S. adults—and just 16% of self-identified Christians—believe in the trinity” (Source: Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University Report #3 3-26-2025). Therefore, if I’m a heretic for not believing God is a trinity, then so also are 84% of self-identified American Christians in whose name I’m being condemned.
- What’s New on the Website: Having completed an audio version of my book titled The New Testament From a Distance yesterday, I’ve now begun producing an audio version of another of my books: The Honor of Marriage. An audio of the front matter of the book is now available.
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Saturday, March 29, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 Samuel 2:35 ‘…he will walk before My anointed always.’
(“My anointed” = “God’s Christ” – therefore, let us walk before Him, which is in the spirit.)
Essentials
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” – Wow! Most people summon us only to give us grief.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Holy One – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: God prophesied that his Messiah would die as a criminal (2:25)
- Weekly Video: Bible Basics: 3) Undermining the Trilemma (15:02)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Thoughts of Others: Former US border patrol officer J.J. Carrell offers the following thoughts with the heading: “The Death of Masculinity—and Why Fatherhood Is the Antidote”
- “But the border’s just one front in a bigger war. They’re killing American masculinity, and they’ve been at it for decades. Look at our boys—77% of single men aged 16 to 24 can’t join the military. Obese, drug-addicted, mentally broken. Poisoned by junk food, stripped of God, and fed lies about who they’re supposed to be. Go back to the ‘70s—look at the photos. You won’t find obesity like today. Something’s changed, and it’s not just laziness. We’ve been poisoned, body and soul.”
- “Fatherhood’s the antidote. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: being a dad is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. Nothing compares—not the highs, not the lows, not the badge I wore. Holding my son for the first time? That’s love you can’t even fathom until it hits you. Anthony Mackie gets it. He told Pivot, “We’ve been living through the death of the American male… I raise my boys to be young men.” Respectful, responsible, protectors. That’s what we’re missing.”
- “J.D. Vance, our Vice President, lights up talking about his kids despite juggling China, Russia, and the lunatics in our own backyard. A 12-second clip of a dad hitting a baseball to his son, hearing that giggle, that pride—that’s the joy of fatherhood distilled. It’s sacrificial, not toxic, as Virgil Walker said at Liberty University. Men build, protect, and sacrifice. That’s biblical, that’s American, and it’s dying.”
- (Source: J. J. Carrell’s Substack)
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 21 – Conclusion) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance. This being the last chapter, there is now a complete audio version of this book available.
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Friday, March 28, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Colossians 2:6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
(A faith that does not walk in the spirit is a stillborn faith.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:12 Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, / For His wrath may soon be kindled. / How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! – Since you can’t do anything else about your life up to this point, let the rest of your life be an homage to the Son of God.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Daniel 7:13-14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: Being hung on a tree is like being hung on a cross (0:42)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Psalm 141:2 May my prayer be counted as incense before You;The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering. – We don’t have to sacrifice animals like the ancients; we can pray instead!
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 20 – What Is the New Testament? – Revisited) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 6:18 “You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to give your fathers,
(Doing “what is right and good in the sight of the Lord” is walking in the spirit which is walking by faith.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Numbers 20 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. We’re skipping Num 18-19 because these two chapters consist of instructions for priests and don’t advance the historical narrative we’re following in this particular Bible reading plan.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. – In other words: 2 Cor 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Bridegroom – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: When you think cross, think wood (0:40)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: As I’ve shown you over the last few day’s in this space, America began turning away from the Bible in the mid-19th century. However, it would have begun its turn away from Jesus prior to that – just because that’s the way apostasy works. That is, we only turn away from the Bible if we have previously turned away from the Lord of the Bible. (Remember: The Bible is the treasure map; Jesus is the treasure.) For example, consider how Jesus says in the book of Revelation to the church in Ephesus, “…you have left your first love.” How could they have heard that rebuke from their jilted Lord about their loss of affection for Him unless they were still listening to His word? (They were listening but not doing.)
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 19 – Modern Challenges to an Ancient Verdict) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 5:14 For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”
(Most people sleepwalk through life.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 11:6 “And blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.” – But why would anyone ever take offense at You, Lord? John 7:7 “The world…hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 55:8-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: Isaac Carried Wood for the Sacrifice (0:59)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: To reinforce the quotations from historian George Marsden I gave you yesterday about the dominant public attitude toward the Bible in America up to the mid-19th century, consider also these three quotations from historian Mark Noll:
- “On the face of it, it would be hard to imagine a nation more thoroughly biblical than the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War.”
- “It was an age when public leaders unabashedly proclaimed their devotion to Scripture. John Adams could call the Bible ‘the best book in the world.’ Henry Clay referred to it as ‘the only book to give us hope in darkness.’ Daniel Webster asserted it was ‘the book of all others for lawyers as well as for divines.’ And Abraham Lincoln named it ‘the best gift God has given to man’.”
- “Nothing, in short, could be more obvious than the biblical character of the United States during its early years.”
- (Source: The Bible in America, edited by Nathan O. Hatch and Mark A. Noll)
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 18 – The Ancient Verdict) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 44:20-21 If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god,
Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
(What? Do we think we’re going to sin when He’s not looking?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:11 Worship the LORD with reverence / And rejoice with trembling. – That Jesus calls us “friends” should not lead to our treating Him cavalierly or in any way irreverently. By our reverent obedience, we will be true friends to Him. – John 15:14 “You are My friends if you do what I command you.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Anointed – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: A cross comes from wood (0:46)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Both quotes below are from historian George Marsden. I gave you the first one last week in this space. The second fits with it. Together, they make it emphatically clear that the downward trajectory of American morals we’ve seen over the course of our lives began in the 19th century. Thus that downward trajectory has continued from the 19th century until this day – picking up speed along the way.
- “The prestige of the Bible in the United States reached its apex in the mid-decades of the nineteenth century…In antebellum Protestant America there was no higher court of appeal.”
- “…America shifted from a more-or-less unified culture dominated by British Protestant ideals to a notable pluralistic culture by the end of the nineteenth century.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 17 – The Answers to Our Questions) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Monday, March 24, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 65:3 A people who continually provoke Me to My face…
(Since God sees everything, all sinning is provoking Him to His face!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. – This profoundly-important messianic fact demonstrates how much God 1) hates sin, and 2) loves sinners.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 53:7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: Cross – Wood – Tree (0:19)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: The historical evidence shows that it wasn’t just for religious purposes that our country’s founders looked to the Bible. Daniel Dreisbach writes: “The founders turned to the Bible for literary, rhetorical, and political reasons, in addition to religious reasons. For a well-rounded understanding of the ideas that informed the American founding, these biblical influences must be studied alongside republican, Enlightenment, British constitutional, and other intellectual influences.” (Source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, pages.17-18)
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 16 – The Nature and Result of the Formation) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Sunday, March 23, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Exodus 29:46 “…I am the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt,
that I might dwell among them; I am the LORD their God.”
(Walking in the spirit is how we notice His dwelling among us.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 10:39 “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.” – This is because: 2 Cor 5:14-15 …the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. – In other words, to the degree we continuing living for ourselves, as has been our nature from birth, we lose, but to the degree we live for Him, we win.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Father – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord.)
- Daily Video Minute: God associated Himself forever with a cross (0:39)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Just when you think the morals of our society couldn’t get any worse…they get worse. There’s a graph in this article depicting adult (18-75+) answers to the following survey question: “Do you think sex relations before marriage at, say ages 14-16, are always wrong, almost always wrong, wrong only sometimes, or not wrong at all?” The answers from 1990 to 2010 were bad enough, with only around 70% of adults responding “always wrong.” By 2021-2022, that percentage had dropped to 43%! As if that’s not shocking enough, the article goes on to say: “If that share is declining, what view are they shifting to? The biggest move is among those who say it’s ‘not wrong at all’.”
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 15 – The Timeline of the Formation) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, is revealed,
then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
(Like reflectors embedded in highway pavement, we have no light to shed except light shed on us.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, / And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.’ – Because of this messianic prophecy in the Old Testament, Paul could write the following statement about the Messiah in the New Testament (emphasis added in both): Hebrews 1:1-2 God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 53:3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
- Daily Video Minute: God made a spectacle of Himself in order to have a relationship with us (0:46)
- Weekly Video: Bible Basics: 2) C. S. Lewis and the Trilemma (15:01)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: Public intellectual Ayaan Hirsi Ali was a Muslim for her first 23 years, became an atheist for the next 31 years, and finally converted to Christianity in 2023. Recently, she rightly and profoundly stated, “In Europe, Christianity remains, despite decades of secularization, the crucial operating system of society – without it, the apps don’t work.” If that’s true of Europe – and it surely is – how much more it is true of America!
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 14 – The Distraction of Canon) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 15:10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
(If anyone ever walked in the spirit, Jesus did!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, – For a human being to have peace with a righteous God requires a worthy mediator. Only one person has ever been worthy of that role: God Himself.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
- Daily Video Minute: Why does God want to have a relationship with us? (0:10)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: What’s all the recent hullabaloo in social media about the phrase “Christ is King”? I don’t know enough to definitively say, but I do know this: Phil 1:18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and in this I rejoice…
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 13 – Values Prevailing Through the Formation) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:10 …be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.
(I don’t know how to follow this instruction without walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Numbers 10 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. Today we skip to Numbers 10 in order to stay focused on the historical narrative; we’re skipping over details about animal sacrifices and priestly procedures in Leviticus, and a lot of census data in Numbers.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 9:5 “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, and walk’?” – Saying the former would be infinitely easier than saying the latter. This is because there would be no immediate way of knowing if the sins were actually forgiven, but it would be obvious whether or not the person addressed got up and walked.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Isaiah 9:6-7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (All audio capsules: Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
- Daily Video Minute: Why does God want us to know how good he is? (0:09)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Yesterday in this space, I wrote that Charles Darwin’s 1859 book about evolution was titled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. I did so in order to call attention to the tension that this full title carries for people who try to live by the rules of political correctness. I then decided to pursue the subject a little further. Google, Wikipedia, and AI engines are all bastions of political correctness. Since AI is the latest of these innovations, I decided to work with the current leader among AI applications: ChatGPT.
- I asked ChatGPT, “Was Charles Darwin a racist?” It danced around the issue for several paragraphs (the answer was five paragraphs in total), saying, in effect, that a lot of racist thinking prevailed in the 19th century, but that Darwin wasn’t as bad as others. In its defense of Darwin, ChatGPT never mentioned the full title of On the Origin of Species.
- Since AI engines “remember” your questions and the answers given, I then asked ChatGPT, “Doesn’t the fuller title of his 1859 book reflect this?” ChatGPT responded in the affirmative – taking another five paragraphs to do so – and commending me for making this point.
- I then asked ChatGPT, “Why didn’t you mention this in your first answer?” ChatGPT apologized for not mentioning the fuller title since it was germane to my original question, and promised to include this fact whenever it answered this question in the future. However, when I signed out of that session and signed back in as a different user, it answered the same question in exactly the same way as before – that is, not mentioning the fuller title of Darwin’s book, as it had promised to do.
- Conclusion: AI engines are programmed to be politically-correct just as search engines are. But AI engines are much more powerful because, unlike search engines, they can 1) flatter the user, and 2) make promises that won’t be kept. Do we really need more flattery and lies in our lives?
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 12 – Factors in the Formation) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Exodus 33:14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.”
(We are all living in the Lord’s presence,
but only those who acknowledge His presence are able to receive the peace it brings.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Leviticus 10 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. Today we skip to Leviticus 10 to stay focused on the historical narrative; the remainder of Exodus gives details about the construction of the tabernacle, and this is the only chapter in Leviticus that has historical narrative – most everything else consisting of details about animal sacrifices and priestly procedures.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Psalm 2:7 “I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: / He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, / Today I have begotten You.” – Paul preached that Ps 2:7 was a promise from God fulfilled by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. In other words, “begotten” in Ps 2:7 means “born” from the dead – which is why Jesus is called “the firstborn from the dead.” In support of what I just said, consider the following two statements from Paul: 1) Acts 13:32-33 “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ 2) Colossians 1:18 …He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus as the Christ – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living. (Audio Capsules of Jesus Christ; Audio Capsules of the Name of the Lord)
- Daily Video Minute: Why does God want us to know how bad we are? (0:10)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Yesterday in this space, I mentioned the effect that Charles Darwin’s 1859 book about evolution had on America’s attitude toward the Bible. Most people today refer to the book’s title as On the Origin of Species, but its full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The shorter title works better for them not just because it’s more concise and therefore easier to remember, but also because the political correctness of believing in evolution does not fit well with the political incorrectness of promoting racist ideologies.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 11 – Drivers of the Formation) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 5:16 …we have known Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know Him in this way no longer.
(Therefore, let us walk not in the flesh but rather in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 20:32 “And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. – The word of God’s grace is eternal…and therefore still able to build us up and to give us the inheritance among all those who are sanctified!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 118:22-24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Why did God try to get our attention by dying on a cross? (0:09)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: In this space, I have been telling you, and will continue to tell you for a while, about how the founding generation of Americans thought about the Bible. This may have caused you to wonder when our national downward trajectory on this subject began. Noted historian George Marsden tells us in an essay published in 1982. (By the way, he was not reporting news in the following statement but rather just stating what’s commonly understood among historians.) He wrote, “The prestige of the Bible in the United States reached its apex in the mid-decades of the nineteenth century…In antebellum Protestant America there was no higher court of appeal.” What happened in the mid-1800’s to reduce the importance of the Bible to Americans? Perhaps most notably, the publication of Charles Darwin’s seminal book on evolution.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 10 – Interim Stage: The Age of Formation (1st to 4th Century)) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Monday, March 17, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 5:14-15 For the love of Christ controls us,
having concluded this,
that one died for all,
therefore all died;
and He died for all,
so that they who live might no longer live for themselves,
but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
(1 Cor 15:14 and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” – Jesus was either a false prophet or he was the Messiah.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Jesus – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Why Did God Make a Spectacle of Himself? (0:11)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: Compare the remarks of Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that I referenced in this space yesterday to what is currently going on in America where a state agency is opposing the biblical values that the Russian government is upholding: “Pennsylvania Department Of Education, Democrat Lawmaker Oppose Christian School Group Upholding Biological Sex” (source: Daily Caller). Are you old enough to remember when the Russian government was atheistic and America’s was Christian?
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 9 – Initial Stage: Writing the 27 Texts (1st Century)) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Sunday, March 16, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Luke 17:20-21 Now having been questioned by the Pharisees
as to when the kingdom of God was coming,
He answered them and said,
“The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’
For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
(As the kingdom of God was for Jesus in the 1st century, so it is for us in the 21st – that is, invisible…and invincible.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Exodus 32 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. We’re skipping over Ex 25-31 because it consists of details about the tabernacle which digress from the historical narrative we are following in this reading plan.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: OT: Ps 2:6 “But as for Me, I have installed My King / Upon Zion, My holy mountain.” – The “holy mountain” ultimately in view here is not the earthly Zion (Jerusalem), but rather heaven itself. (NT: Heb 12:18-22 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched…But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem…”)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 25:8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: A Spectacle for the Ages (1:04)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: The current realities of the world are very different from common perceptions – up to 180 degrees different. For example, consider the difference between Russia’s current public stance toward Christianity compared to America’s. On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an extensive interview (1.5 hours) to three invited “US bloggers” (per the Russian news agency). If US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (Lavrov’s counterpart) had spoken of America as a Christian nation in the same way that Lavrov spoke of Russia, it would have set off a firestorm of protest in the American press. To get a taste of Russia’s Christian claims, watch the first eight minutes (video of the interview) or, if you’re short on time, read the first eight paragraphs of the transcript (full transcript). Does this mean Russia is better in the sight of God than America? I don’t know enough to say that. What I do know enough to say is that this is not your father’s Russia…nor, alas, is it your father’s America.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 8 – The Distraction of Religion) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 14:24-25 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters,
he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all;
the secrets of his heart are disclosed;
and so he will fall on his face and worship God,
declaring that God is certainly among you.
(How could God have disclosed through prophecy the secrets of hearts in the Corinthians’ church unless He knew those secrets?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 20:24 “But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.” – Where would you and I be if Paul and the other apostles had lacked this resolve? We’d still be going to heaven, but we’d have no way of knowing that until we arrived there. Jesus did the work; His apostles reported the result.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Firstborn of the Dead – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Could God be a Committee? (0:30)
- Weekly Video: Bible Basics: 1) Introduction (14:47)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: George Barna’s most recent research was released on Wednesday. Below are excerpts from it (and here’s the full report):
- The findings from today’s report are both profound—and troubling.
- Only 40% of all Americans believe that the God of the Bible exists and influences human lives.
- A mere 16% say that God is the most important element in their lives.
- Just 9% report having an intimate, interactive spiritual relationship with Him.
- And this shift is also occurring within the Church itself. Among self-identified Christians, the findings highlight a dramatically weakening connection to God’s centrality in daily life:
- While 88% of those who believe in God identify as Christians, only 20% describe their relationship with Him as intimate and interactive.
- More than 60% of Christians do not consider their relationship with God to be the most important one in their lives.
- Nearly one-third of Christians do not believe that God is actively involved in every aspect of their daily existence.
- This growing spiritual disengagement is not merely redefining individual faith—it is accelerating the nation’s divorce from the God of the Bible.
- The findings from today’s report are both profound—and troubling.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 7 – Final Stage: Acknowledging the One Collection – 4th Century Onward) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Friday, March 14, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
(Walking in the spirit pleases God.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:13-14 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” – How then can we any hope of escaping what’s outside and finding entrance into this glorious kingdom? By cultivating the qualities described by Peter in 2 Pet 1:5-9. For in verses 10-11, Peter promises that cultivation of these qualities will “abundantly supply entrance” into this kingdom.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Make every day a red-letter day! (0:08)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): I found this on the back cover of a trade paperback book published in 1982 titled The Bible in America: “A superb collection…Americans have been and continue to be ‘people of the Book,’ often without recognizing the way in which their lives and identity have been shaped by biblical images and ideas. This volume will help them see their tradition and how it continues to influence American culture in the twentieth century. A scintillating contribution to American religious and cultural history.” – Can a blurb like this be found on any book published in the twenty-first century?
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 6 – Stages in the History of the New Testament as a Text) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God,
how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things,
to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
(Why should we turn back to walking in the flesh once we’ve turned to the Lord?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Job 19:25 “As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, / And at the last He will take His stand on the earth.” – In the midst of his pain and torment, Job prophesies of Messiah. As hopeless as he felt, he still had the hope of Messiah!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Firstborn of All Creation – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Kick out the Doubt! (0:07)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: “A wide ideology gap is opening up between young men and women in countries across the world.” This trending might not end well, but it’s better than if the trending of men and women on this subject were vice versa.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 5 – More on the Accessibility of the New Testament) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
(I live in His presence on earth for a time, and then I will live in His presence in heaven forever.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 18:28 for he [a Jew named Apollos who “was mighty in the Scriptures”] powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. – How did Christianity get started? Jews preaching to Jews about the Jewish Messiah who had been prophesied by Jewish prophets in Jewish writings.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Revelation 17:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Doubter’s Disease (0:07)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: I recently learned about an app called Speechify. It converts written text into spoken words. It’s only been around since 2017, but it’s growing in usage because many people want to consume books and other written material by listening rather than by reading. This can be because people have visual impairments, reading difficulties, and such, but it can also be because some folks just want to be able to consume written material in the same way they consume podcasts – that is, while they’re doing something else. In any case, this growing trend of listening to written content is part of why I’m in the process of producing audio versions of all my books. (I myself don’t like listening to books – non-fiction, anyway – because I like to be able to underline things that stand out to me.) No one will need Speechify to listen to my books, but if anyone has that app I assume they could feed my pdf’s into it and get their own audio version instantly.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 4 – Ancient Writings Versus Modern Writings) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior.
He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
(He’s closer than we realize…which is all the more reason we should walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matt 7:12 “In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” – The Messiah reveals the foundational principle of Moses’ law to ancient Israel. That principle would be retained going forward even as animal sacrifice, tabernacle and temple maintenance, kosher food laws, and such were being jettisoned. This is consistent with what He’d said earlier in the Sermon on the Mount: Matt 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Way – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: How bad is doubt for your soul? (0:06)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: In my recent encounters with AI (artificial intelligence), I have found the speed with which it arrives at answers to even very complex questions to be stunning – it’s not overstatement to say breathtaking. This demonstrates dramatically how technology is allowing us to make mistakes faster than ever before.
- What’s New on the Website: I recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 3 – Ancient Literature Accessible to Modern People) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Esther 1:17 “…’King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in to his presence,
but she did not come.’
(Those who refuse to walk in the spirit are like Vashti; if the Lord wants to show us off to heaven, who are we to refuse Him?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Chronicles 16:9 “For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His…” – During His days on earth, Israel’s Messiah walked from one end of His homeland to the other looking for people who believed Him so that He could heal them of their diseases and declare to them the good news of God’s eternal love for us.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 2:25 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: More on the Son of Man (0:38)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Daniel Dreisbach says of America’s founding days, “Many Americans in this generation thought the Bible was essential for nurturing the civic virtues that give citizens the capacity for self-government.” (Source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 17.) – By contrast, most Americans today think that civic virtues can be – indeed, must be – cultivated and practiced without reference to the Bible. Could we have wandered any farther from the founders’ principles if that had been our thoughtful intention?
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 2 – What Is the New Testament?) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:7 …the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God;
for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
(This is because we can’t serve two masters; we’re either serving the world we see or the God we don’t.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 18:5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. – As Paul solemnly testified that Jesus was the Christ, so righteous preachers today solemnly testify that the Christ is God.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Light – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Son of Man (1:06)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): When Russia was controlled by the communist USSR government (1917-1991), the American political left consistently pushed for more cordial relations with them. But since Russia abandoned communist government, relinquished control of Eastern Europe, and returned to its historic Christian roots, the American left has been pushing for more hostile relations with them. This is not an advertisement for the American right, but it is a warning sign about the American left and its bias for godlessness. Further to that point, consider how even though China arguably represents a greater immediate and long-term strategic threat to the United States than does Russia, the American left vilifies the Russian leader with far more vicious name-calling of its leader than they ever use toward the leader of China. It’s impossible not to notice the reason why the different treatment: China is communist, which means officially and effectively atheist, while Russia, though authoritarian, has returned to its prior Christian orientation including its historic relationship with the Russian Orthodox Church. To summarize, that the American political left aligns more readily with atheistic nations than with Christian ones tells us something.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 1 – Introduction) for the audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Mark 4:40 And He said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
(They were afraid because they were walking in the flesh and not in the spirit. Walking in the spirit is walking in faith.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:11 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!” – If we have a distorted idea of how an earthly father should think and act, we’ll have a distorted idea of how God thinks and acts.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Psalm 73:28 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 4 of 4 (0:13)
- Weekly Video: Evolution and the Bible – Part 2 of 2 (14:52)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): As America needs revival, so our mother country does as well. And so a Brit writes: “An Open Letter to King Charles III on the Spiritual Revival of a Nation.”
- What’s New on the Website:
- Having completed the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics (AA), I’ve begun creating an audio version of a related book, The New Testament From a Distance. The first installment has been recorded and uploaded. It’s titled simply the “Front Matter,” which is everything that comes before the first chapter. I’ll post updates here whenever I complete another chapter, just as I did for AA.
- My abiding interest in New Testament authorship has led me to interact with some AI engines. You can see some results at AI Engines on New Testament Authorship. I warn you, however, it’s quite lengthy. (AI engines are not short-winded.) There’s a shorter version consisting solely of my interaction with Grok which you can click on at my Twitter/X feed.
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Friday, March 7, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1:12 For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience,
that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God,
we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
(What is walking in the spirit if not to live by the “testimony of our conscience,” and “in holiness and godly sincerity,”
based on “the grace of God” – all in stark contrast to the “fleshly wisdom” that used to animate all our thinking.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Chronicles 12:22 For day by day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army like the army of God. – I love this verse. Like so many messianic verses in the Old Testament, it is both history and prophecy. That is, it speaks historically of David, and thereby simultaneously speaks prophetically of Messiah – who would be a descendant of David.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Son of Man – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 3 of 4 (0:11)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): That we remain the Divided States of America is evidenced in recent polling showing that even after dramatically reducing illegality at the border, banning men from women’s sports, and implementing a host of other common-sense measures in his first month in office, only 58% of registered American voters can bring themselves to say that the new president is doing a better job than the old one. (Source: The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University/Harris Poll, February 19-20, 2025, slide 18). If 42% of voters think that presidential performance has dropped off since January 20, then the inauguration was a wedding without a honeymoon. And we are a deeply divided nation. At least in the Civil War, both sides were reading the same Bible and praying to the same God.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 16 – Conclusion) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ. Since this is the final chapter, there is now a complete audio of this book. I’ll work next on producing an audio version of The New Testament From a Distance.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:3 …worship in the Spirit of God
and glory in Christ Jesus
and put no confidence in the flesh,
(Walking in the Spirit and Not in the Flesh)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 17:18 And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What would this idle babbler wish to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”–because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. – Strange indeed that God would come down and let us treat Him like this. Maybe He’s trying to tell us something.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Peter 3:17-18 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 2 of 4 (0:10)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Here are the kinds of questions Daniel Dreisbach answers in his 344-page book about the importance of the Bible to America’s founding generation: “What importance did the founding generation attach to the Bible as a practical, sacred guide to the issues and challenges that confronted them? In what ways did the Bible shape the founders’ perceptions of themselves, their times, and their political pursuits? How did biblical literature inform their political thoughts and shape their vision for republican self-government? How did they use the Bible in their political discourse? Did they use and interpret the Bible in conventional, orthodox terms? What can we learn from the interaction between the text and the interpreter? Which biblical passages appealed most to this generation?” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 9) – In other words, Dreisbach’s research on this subject is comprehensive and deep. He’s not just giving a flyby view.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 15 – Dealing with Doubts) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(He who isn’t walking “in Christ Jesus our Lord” isn’t walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” – Israel’s Messiah is telling us how reality works.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Unleavened Bread – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The apostles had a zero tolerance policy for fear 1 of 4 (0:12)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Daniel Dreisbach has said, “The detachment of American history from its generative biblical culture impoverishes our understanding of the American experiment in self-government.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 9) – Dreisbach’s statement explains why so few Americans today appreciate what America’s second president, John Adams, meant when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” To use a metaphor, thinking that the American Constitution can be understood and followed in a secular nation is like thinking that a goldfish can live as well outside of water as in it.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 14 – Measuring Apostolic Apologetics Against the Rest) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 8:2-3 If anyone supposes that he knows anything,
he has not yet known as he ought to know;
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
(It is so utterly foolish to think that God will not notice if we love Him.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: 1 Chronicles 11:9 David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him. – Jesus foreshadowed by the life of David. FJOT!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Peter 5:10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: How well known is the name of Jesus in America these days? (0:33)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: “Again, it is difficult to overstate the place of the Bible in the lives and culture of eighteenth-century Americans.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, pages 8-9) – Alas, it is not difficult for most 21st-century historians and politicians to ignore it.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 13 – Centering on Faith in Christ) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Monday, March 3, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:12-13 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead,
and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
(How do we “present ourselves to God”? By walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 16:31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” – Then let us say as boldly as Joshua did, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Josh 24:15)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Manna – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Does the Bible support capitalism? (0:52)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Zechariah 7:13 “And just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen,” says the LORD of hosts;” – Sounds like the Lord returns the calls of those who return His calls.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 12 – The Sufficiency of Apostolic Apologetics) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 34:8 …How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
(How does one “take refuge in Him?” By walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” – Sometimes we are caught off guard when we share the good news of Jesus and the Bible and people react like wild animals. But once once such people reveal their nature, we should stop feeding them.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 3:24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Learn from the past (0:30)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): ”Sports betting isn’t just a little hobby…” – Dave Ramsey
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 11 – The Efficiency of Apostolic Apologetics) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 11:24 …considerable numbers were brought to the Lord.
(We are “brought to the Lord” that we might walk before Him – that is, walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Kings 23:25 Before him there was no king like him who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him. – King Josiah foreshadowed the greatest Israelite king of all: Jesus Christ our Lord!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Bread – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: God Is Transcendent (0:42)
- Weekly Video: Evolution and the Bible – Part 1 of 2 (13:51)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: I’ve read two or three sources indicating that something like half of AI (Artificial Intelligence) researchers believe there’s a 10% or greater chance that humans will go extinct from their inability to control AI. Elon Musk says this risk keeps him up at night. A lesser-known AI researcher named Eliezer Yudkowsky thinks the end of humanity isn’t merely highly probable, but imminent. The problem isn’t that we lack the ability to establish moral restraints for the development of technologies like AI, but that we lack the will. And we lack the will because we’ve lost the fear of the Lord. If we regain that deep reverence for His righteousness, we can about-face our death march. Moral standards cannot be maintained in an environment of secularism. Our experience as a nation since World War II has proven this over and over.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 10 – Examining the Apostolic Warrant for Faith) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 11:21 And the hand of the Lord was with them,
and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.
(Walking in the spirit is staying turned.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts of the Apostles 13:32-33 “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.'” – Paul is declaring that the word “begotten” in Psalm 2:7 was an allusion to resurrection. And it’s why Jesus was called “the firstborn of the dead” in Colossians 1:18 and Revelation 1:5. It also means that Jesus was the first person ever to be “born again.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Philippians 1:21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Adultery and Idolatry (0:47)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: In describing America’s founding age, Daniel Dreisbach took pains to emphasize the fact that “The Bible was not merely the literature of the unlearned and unsophisticated, as some scholars view it today.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8) – Further to this point, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton were all three founded to train ministers of the gospel. The difference between those academic environments and what takes place on those campuses today could not be more stark. With secularism, came licentiousness…as well as noxious combination of ignorance and arrogance.
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 9 – Approaching the Apostolic Warrant for Faith) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 15:7 “If you abide in Me…”
(That’s a big “If” – like saying, “If you walk in the spirit…”)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 7:5 “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” – In other words, don’t skip step two of Ezra’s formula: Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Tree of Life – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: What’s different about new times as compared to our times? (0:53)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: “After Years Of Decline, Christianity’s Growth In The US Remains Stable” (Pew Research Center per Religion Unplugged)
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 8 – Defining the Apostolic Warrant for Faith) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Chronicles 27:6 So Jotham became mighty
because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
(Order is God’s solution for chaos and confusion…but it must begin in the heart, which only He can fully see.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: 2 Samuel 7:14 “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to Me; when he commits iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and the strokes of the sons of men,” – God delivered the prophecy that Messiah would be a descendant – in other words, a son – of King David through the prophet Nathan. Notice how this portion of that prophecy also declares that David’s descendant would be the Son of God as well.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:7 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Because the New Testament says THIS, we can say THAT (1:00)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: “2,000 Students Decide to Follow Jesus at Ohio State Revival”
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded and uploaded another chapter (Chapter 7 – What Is Apostolic Apologetics?) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 15:8 “And God, who knows the heart…
(Since God “knows the heart,” let us live in the light of that reality – in other words, let us walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 12:24 …the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied. – Oh, how I long to see it growing again as in times of old! Spiritual decline is not inevitable. Repentance is possible…individually and nationally.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Stump – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Are you being quiet enough to hear God? (0:32)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): On February 10, 1940, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “5,000 years of recorded history have proven that mankind has always believed in God in spite of many abortive attempts to exile God.” (source: Bill Federer) – Such statements by a politician aren’t always reliable guides to what he thinks, but they are reliable guides to what he thinks voters think.
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Monday, February 24, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…
(Only by walking in the spirit can we see clearly how to draw near to Him.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” – Jesus was a young man, but he spoke with the wisdom of an old one.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Timothy 2:5-6 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Making room for the word of God (0:28)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): “In the real world, single parent households underlie almost all of our social dysfunctions. The United States has the highest share of its children in single parent households of any country in the world.” (source: Aaron Renn on Substack) – You can draw a straight line from the sexual revolution to our current condition.
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 33:18-19 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope for His lovingkindness,
To deliver their soul from death
And to keep them alive in famine.
(Since we know that God pays attention to everyone, a verse like this can only mean that He’s paying extra attention to those looking for Him to throw them a lifeline – that is, those who are walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Joshua 24:15 “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” – The duty of a man in the 21st century is to be as determined about this as Joshua was.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Rod – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Post Tenebras Lux (0:39)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): “Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds. The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ or something other than heterosexual increased to 9.3%, from 7.6% in 2023.” (source: NBC News) – Well, we’ve at least stopped flying the flag for this sort of thing from government buildings. That’s a start at repentance – but it’s not a finish.
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
(Abiding in this love is only possible when you’re walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Job 42 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. Since we’re focused on history, and since ancient Jewish sources and Ussher’s chronology and his order of the Old Testament books place the book of Job during the time Moses was living in his exile to Midian, we’re reading the beginning and ending chapters of Job between our reading of Genesis and Exodus. Today we jump to the last chapter of the book because the intervening chapters record mostly dialogue rather than history.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 10:38 “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.” – Disease is from Satan; healing is from God. Pretty simple. Israel’s religious elite had it exactly backwards: Matthew 12:22-24 Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw. All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?” But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Timothy 1:15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The book of Psalms is the overflow of David’s heart (1:05)
- Weekly Video: Overview of the book The New Testament From a Distance (14:59)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: “Seventy decapitated bodies have been discovered in a church in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to Open Doors, which supports persecuted Christians around the world.” (source: Newsweek)
- What’s New on the Website: Recorded three additional chapters (4, 5, and 6) for the audio version of Apostolic Apologetics: An Efficient and Sufficient Warrant for Faith in Christ.
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Friday, February 21, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 38:16 …”As the LORD lives, who made this life for us…”
(The Lord made for us both this physical life and this “walking in the spirit” life. Therefore, we call Him both Creator and Redeemer.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Job 2 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. Since we’re focused on history, and since ancient Jewish sources and Ussher’s chronology place the book of Job during the time Moses was living in his exile to Midian, we’re reading the beginning and ending chapters of Job between our reading of Genesis and Exodus.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – It is perfectly logical that Jesus would not call us to make righteousness our highest priority in life unless He were prepared to make sure we didn’t starve to death because of our pursuit of it. This is why David could write: Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now I am old, / Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken / Or his descendants begging bread. – Every commandment of the Lord carries with it a promise, some explicit and others implicit. God always acts consistent with His nature: Heb 11:6 …He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Pillar – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Today’s fathers walk in the footsteps of the apostles (1:00)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): The latest research from demographer George Barna “reveals a deep and growing confusion about God, even among those who call themselves Christians.” Full report. Of his reporting, Barna also says…
- “I have never seen a time when our nation’s spiritual beliefs were more fragmented. Or that when the biblical worldview has faced greater challenges.”
- “The latest research finds that while two-thirds of Americans identify as Christian, only 4% hold a biblical worldview. Even more alarming, just 40% believe in the God of the Bible, down from 73% three decades ago. Instead, Syncretism—blending elements from multiple worldviews—has become the dominant perspective.”
- What’s New on the Website: Simplified and streamlined the library page (A Free Online Library of 21st Christianity for Men and Their Families).
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Thursday, February 20, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 17:27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us;
(If “He is not far from each one of us,” that is all the more reason to walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
- 3rd Reading: Job 1 – written / audio (We’re reading through a condensed Old Testament – focusing primarily on its history – once a year. Since we’re focused on history, and since ancient Jewish sources and Ussher’s chronology place the book of Job during the time Moses was living in his exile to Midian, we turn now to it.)
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Joshua 1:8 “This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.” – How fitting that this exhortation would be written by the man for whom Joseph and Mary named their first child!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 2:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The sitting down was the big thing! (1:02)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Yesterday in this space, I told you what historian Daniel Dreisbach wrote about the place of esteem given to the Bible throughout all forms of K-12 education during America’s founding age. Here’s what he said about the similar prevalence of the Bible in colleges during that same period: “When studied in higher education today, the Bible is typically reserved for specialty courses on religion and theology, unlike eighteenth-century colleges where the Bible was a key textbook in many courses in the curriculum.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8) – What percentage of today’s Americans care about this particular aspect of American history…or are even aware of it?
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
(To “live with Him” is to walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 5:42 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. – With Bibles in every home, we should be able to do this even more effectively in the 21st century than they could in the 1st. Of course, we don’t have the apostles…but we do have what they wrote (that is, the New Testament).
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is Immanuel – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Is Judas a type of Satan? (0:16)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: How does Daniel Dreisbach describe what was going on in colonial America at the founding of the nation with respect to the Bible in K-12 education? “The Bible and bible-based texts were ubiquitous in elementary and secondary education, and they were of special importance to literacy education. (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8) – Bear in mind that Dreisbach is not talking about Christian schools – rather, he’s talking about ALL education prior to college. How different is that from America’s K-12 education these days?
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 3:21 “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light,
so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
(We’re all born liars; the truth takes practice…”in God,” which = “walking in the spirit.”)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.” – Think about this in the context of Matthew 6:33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” – The easy part comes first: Serve God and stuff comes. Once the stuff comes, however, we’re tempted to serve the stuff. The key to righteous living is to be able to continue serving God even when the stuff comes and not be distracted by it. Stuff comes and stuff goes; Jesus our Lord is forever. Paul figured it out: Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Ephesians 5:1-2 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Is God asking too much? (0:13)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Jude 1:20-21 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. – In his reference to the Holy Spirit in the context of prayer, Jude is reminding us to allow time for listening as well as talking during our prayers.
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Monday, February 17, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 3:20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light,
and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.”
(To “come to the light” is to walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 21:22-23 “If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.” – Who could have imagined when Moses wrote this provision of the Law that it would one day apply to the Messiah? But once it happened – especially as part of a larger sequence of prophesy-fulfilling events – it would become impossible to deny that it applied to Messiah!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Commander – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Jeremiah’s Potter (Jer 11) (0:13)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: 1 John 5:14-15 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. – And how can we know His will without giving sufficient attention to His word?
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 3:19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world,
and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.”
(Men who don’t want to give up their sins won’t walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: The Acts of the Apostles 4:33 And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and abundant grace was upon them all. – What an apt, succinct, and beautiful description of the New Testament period – that is, the 1st century AD. The residue of that grace – that is, the 27 texts the we call the New Testament – is the primary means by which that grace continues to come to us, century after century.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 16:14 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Ring of Truth (0:56)
- Weekly Video: Overview of the book Apostolic Apologetics (14:42) (For those of you expecting a reading of Chapter 3 today, see link immediately below. The opening of this video will explain what’s going on. Basically, I scrapped the idea of reading the book on video but will do so on audio instead. In the meantime, this video will give you a bird’s eye view of the entire book, which will help you see where things are going.)
- Audio version of Apostolic Apologetics (including Chapter 3, which was due today). I’ll be adding the rest of the chapters no less than once a week until the entire book is in audio form.
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Not Far from the Kingdom of God: Rod Dreher said, “Martin Heidegger, arguably the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century, reached the end of his life in despair about humanity’s capacity to govern its technology. In a 1966 article published after his death, Heidegger bleakly stated that ‘only a god can save us’ from our out-of-control technology. He meant that only an external force that has the authority to command us could stay our self-destructive hand.” (source: Rod Dreher’s Substack) – That God’s name is name is Jesus Christ.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:4 …walk in newness of life.
(To “walk in newness of life” is to walk in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions.” – Jesus sounds pretty serious about this forgiveness thing.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Tree – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Abraham and Moses (0:12)
- Weekly Video: Overview of the book Apostolic Apologetics (14:42) (For those of you expecting a reading of Chapter 3 today, see link immediately below. The opening of this video will explain what’s going on. Basically, I scrapped the idea of reading the book on video but will do so on audio instead. In the meantime, this video will give you a bird’s eye view of the entire book, which will help you see where things are going.)
- Audio version of Apostolic Apologetics (including Chapter 3, which was due today). I’ll be adding the rest of the chapters no less than once a week until the entire book is in audio form.
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Listen to Daniel Dreisbach’s well-researched comparison of 21st-century America to 18th-century America when it comes to the Bible: “In modern, secular America, the Bible is often relegated—by pietistic or secular impulses, disinterest, or government decree—to the margins of public culture. In our highly rationalistic and technological contemporary culture, a veneration of Scripture is regarded by some elites as the preserve of an unsophisticated and unlearned class of citizens. This was not true of eighteenth-century America. Indeed, twenty-first-century Americans may find it difficult to appreciate the centrality of Christianity and the Bible to many aspects of public life in this earlier era. (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8) – This explains why Barack Obama could speak disparagingly about the “guns and religion” crowd and still get elected president.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Ps 27:13 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
(“The living” are those who are walking in the spirit; everyone else is dead to God.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 18:15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.” – Moses prophesies the resurrection (“will raise up”) of Jesus…about 15 centuries in advance!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 8:12 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Ecclesiastes 11:4 and Acts 1:11 (1:03)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: In Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8), Daniel L. Dreisbach explains the focus of his book as follows: “Identifying specific biblical sources in the political literature of the founding era is a useful exercise because, according to Donald S. Lutz, the Bible is prominent and ‘highly influential’ in the American political tradition and it ‘is not always given the attention it deserves.’ This study offers glimpses into the role of the Bible – and, by extension, Christianity – in shaping the political culture of the founding era.” – Dreisbach is taking pains to make sure his readers know that he has written a serious book based on extensive, sober, and fair-minded research. He is not quoting from the founding era subjectively to create propaganda for the Christian cause; on the contrary, his purpose is to set the record straight since many people on both sides of the argument about how much effect the Bible had on the American founding overstate their respective cases.
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 15:9 “…abide in My love.”
(I don’t know of any way to abide in His love without walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts of the Apostles 4:11-12 “He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.” – The apostle Peter declares to a group of “rulers and elders and scribes” gathered in Jerusalem that the resurrection of the crucified Jesus was a fulfillment of Psalm 118:22. The most biblically-literate people in Jerusalem did not appreciate Peter’s FJOT, so they reprimanded him for telling them about it. How could the most biblically-literate people be so obtuse? Simple. It’s not how much of the Bible we know that gives us insight into the things of God as much as how much of the Bible we do.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Root – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Are you part of God‘s problem or part of His solution? (0:12)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Mark 11:17 And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL THE NATIONS’? But you have made it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” – We human beings are either grateful beneficiaries of our Creator’s generosity of or else thieves who take from Him whatever we want in life without ever asking or thanking. Prayer is a time for asking and thanking; if we’re not praying very much, it probably means we’re taking for granted the good things in our lives. This is a sign of weak or non-existent faith.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?
(“Walking humbly with your God” is walking in the spirit – which is doing right in the sight of Jesus Christ.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 6:1 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.” – In other words, “Beware of virtue signaling because it will do you no good with Jesus.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Colossians 2:6 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: When is it better to know only a little about God? (0:21)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Connect the Dots:
- John the Baptist: Matt 3:11-12 “As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Jesus of Nazareth: John 15:6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.”
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 15:6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up;
and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.”
(We can either bear fruit for Jesus…or be kindling for Satan.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.” – Moses was the first to speak this, but Jesus was the first to fully live it.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ is the Shoot – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Prophets and the Apostles (0:34)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: In Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017, page 8), author Daniel Dreisbach writes, “Few historians dispute that Christianity and the Bible have influenced to some extent the American people and their public culture. Yet, one gains little understanding of Christianity’s vital contributions to the development of American political and legal culture from reading standard histories of the American founding. Yes, Anglo-Americans are often described as a ’people of the book,’ and, yet, scholars have given little attention to how the Bible contributed in specific ways to the American political experiment…The scant attention given to the Bible’s influence is in contrast to the extensive scholarly literature on the influences of Enlightenment, republican, and English common law ideas on the founders’ political thought.” – Hmm. I wonder why that is?
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Monday, February 10, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Revelation 3:12 ‘He who overcomes,
I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God,
and he will not go out from it anymore…’
(When you finish praying, just stay in His presence as you live your life.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 3:26 “For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” – The pursuit of righteousness brings blessings!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:19 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: “If I Ruled the World” (Tony Bennett song) (1:15)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Connect the Dots:
- OT: Ps 105:15 “Do not touch My anointed ones…
- NT: 1 John 2:20 …you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
- NT: 1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:5 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
(Mindset is binary. Pick a lane and stay in it.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:48 “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” – Jesus is ambitious.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the King – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: WWJD (1:27)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: 1 Tim 5:5 …continues in entreaties and prayers night and day. – Would God encourage such a thing if it was going to be fruitless?
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 17:10 “I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.
(If you’re walking in the spirit, it won’t bother you that there’s no place to hide.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Numbers 27:16-18 “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.” So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him…” – FJOT! FJOT! FJOT! (I’m saying it like USA! USA! USA!)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 18:36 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: What are the two biggest reasons we ought not try to control everything? (0:54)
- Weekly Video:
Apostolic Apologetics: Chapter 2 of 16 (10:08)(As of Feb 14, 2025, I turned this video project into an audio project. See audio version of Apostolic Apologetics to hear me read this chapter.) - Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel L. Dreisbach does not exaggerate the place of the Bible in America’s founding. To that point, he writes objectively about “…the Bible’s influence on the founders’ political discourse and their experiment in republican self-government. Identifying the sources and tracing the transmission of ideas are difficult tasks. What does it mean to say an idea, principle, argument, model, theme, or rhetorical style was influenced by the Bible? It could, but does not necessarily, mean that an idea embraced by the founders is original to the Bible. It could mean that the founders encountered in Scripture ideas, themes, and expressions they found useful in formulating, articulating, or validating their own political thoughts. It does not necessarily mean that the Bible’s influence superseded or crowded out all other sources of influence or that biblical influences did not coexist with multiple—even seemingly competing—influences, such as classical and Enlightenment sources. The founding generation drew on multiple sources, one of which was the Bible.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 6)
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Friday, February 7, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Chronicles 34:2 He did right in the sight of the LORD…
(If this is the case, does it really matter if no one else saw it?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ–this Jesus whom you crucified.” – Peter – the same Peter who had been so intimidated some 53 evenings earlier that he denied even knowing Jesus – is here on the day of Pentecost roaring like a lion! (Ps 138:3 …You made me bold with strength in my soul.)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Vine – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: How is Jesus like Lot? (0:37)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: In his book, Daniel Dreisbach emphasizes how the Bible was used in the political realm. “This book describes the Bible’s expansive influence on the public culture and examines selected biblical texts that were frequently mentioned in the political rhetoric of the founding era. And, perhaps most important, it considers how the founding generation used the Bible in its political discourse.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 6) – It doesn’t appear that Americans are even allowed to use the Bible in the political realm these days.
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Chronicles 33:22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD…
(If this is the case, does it really matter if no one else saw it?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:19 “Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” – Sounds like Jesus was familiar with the key to Ezra’s success: Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 10:24 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: When you are called to account for yourself… (1:01)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Author Daniel Dreisbach does not present the American founders as if they were all equally devoted to Jesus Christ and the Bible: “Many founders revered the Bible as divine revelation and commended its role in fostering the virtues required of a self-governing people. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine, either doubted the Bible’s divine origins or thought it had been corrupted in its transmission across the centuries. Both pious and skeptical founders were familiar with the Bible, referred often to it in their political discourse, and commended Jesus’s ethical teachings as recorded in the Gospels.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 6)
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Ex 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
(Let nothing come between you and Him; otherwise, you’ll experience an eclipse of the Son.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived. – How could we have ever figured out that what Moses did here was pointing to Jesus’ crucifixion some 1,500 years later unless Jesus Himself had told us (John 3:14-15)? Israel’s religious leaders sure couldn’t figure it out or else they wouldn’t have pushed the Romans to crucify Him.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Breaker – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Hope in Christ, not Politics (0:54)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: American author, academic, and attorney Daniel L. Dreisbach sums up his book Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017) on page 5: “This book considers the place of the Bible in the lives and thoughts of the founding fathers. The Bible, it is argued, was a vital source for the language, themes, and ideas in the political discourse of the American founding.” – How far from this have we wandered?
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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 14:19 “After a little while the world will no longer see Me,
but you will see Me;
because I live, you will live also.
(If we’re not walking in the spirit, we’re dead to Him.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Acts 2:32 “This Jesus God raised up again, to which we are all witnesses.” – So declared Peter to a big crowd in Jerusalem 50 days after Jesus was raised from the dead and 10 days after He ascended into heaven – the same Peter who had denied he even knew Jesus the night before His crucifixion.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 1:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Father Wounds and Daddy Issues (0:58)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Consider this statement: “For decades, the National Football League was against sports betting. But when states began legalizing it in 2018, the NFL embraced the change. The league forged partnerships with sports betting companies, allowed the Washington Commanders to have a sportsbook inside their stadium, and moved a team to Las Vegas. League and team personnel cannot bet on any sport, while players can bet on nonfootball games.” (source: 1440 Daily Digest) *** “In 2021, Caesar’s Entertainment contracted to pay $138 million for naming rights to the Louisiana Superdome, making it the first NFL stadium to be named after a gambling company.” (source: Bleacher Report) – Given the expected viewership of this coming Sunday’s Super Bowl game, the Caesar’s Palace people are paying about one dollar per viewer to have their name heard and seen on that one day – with 19 more years of remembrance and additional attention thrown in for free. Gambling used to be a fringe activity in American culture. Professional football is just one example of the inroads it’s made to reach this state of mainstream acceptance. And beyond just professional football, be aware that sports gambling commercials are currently among the most commonly being presented on YouTube. We as a country are sending a mixed signal if we’re ditching DEI to pursue meritocracy while we simultaneously promote gambling.
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Monday, February 3, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.”
(In our thinking processes, the invisible One must increase while we decrease.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.” – To use terms with which you and I are more familiar, Jesus was saying here, “Do not think that I came to do away with the Old Testament; I did not come to ignore it but to fulfill it.”
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Teacher – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Like a humble child or like a know-it-all senior? (0:52)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Further to the point made in this space yesterday, that late 18th-century Americans were more biblically literate than the Europeans they had left behind, consider what Daniel Dreisbach went on to say:
“In 1781, Benjamin Franklin, then serving as the American Minister to France, wrote a letter to his old friend the Reverend Doctor Samuel Cooper, pastor of Boston’s influential Brattle Street Church. Some months before, the prominent Congregationalist clergyman had sent Franklin a copy of the sermon he had delivered on the commencement of the government under a new state constitution. The sermon, Franklin responded, gave him an “abundance of Pleasure,” and he said he intended to translate and print the sermon for a European audience. He explained, however, that he would need to insert biblical references for European readers, even though such references were unnecessary for Cooper’s American audience: ‘It was not necessary in New England where every body reads the Bible, and is acquainted with Scripture Phrases, that you should note the Texts from which you took them; but I have observed in England as well as in France, that Verses and Expressions taken from the sacred Writings, and not known to be such, appear very strange and awkward to some Readers; and I shall therefore in my Edition take the Liberty of marking the quoted Texts in the Margin’.”
(source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 5)
Note that Dreisbach is quoting Benjamin Franklin – a man considered less devout than most if not all of America’s founders! If he would say this, how much more would the other founders agree with him.
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Sunday, February 2, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 5:44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another
and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
(Walking in the flesh shuts down your ability to believe.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Leviticus 19:18 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.’ – Talk about a finding a needle in a hay stack! Jesus found the second most important commandment in the law of Moses smack dab in the middle of Leviticus, of all places!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Romans 6:23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: So great a salvation! (1:06)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach tells us, “Starting with the first permanent English settlements, especially in New England, Americans have apparently been more biblically literate than their European contemporaries.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 5) – This fact should not surprise us since so many of America’s earliest settlers came here to practice their Christianity unrestrained by the opposition and persecution they had been experiencing in Europe. In other words, it wasn’t the average European who was attracted to the wilderness and hostile natives that characterized early America; it was the more biblical literate Europeans, especially biblically literate Englishmen. Let us better appreciate what they carved out of the wilderness for us!
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Saturday, February 1, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD…
(To start your day right, turn toward the Lord – that is, read your Bible and walk in the spirit, not the flesh.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 20:30-31 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. – As Nicodemus admitted to Jesus, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” (John 3:1-2)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Rock – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Bible exist to support your relationship with God, not vice versa (0:55)
- Weekly Video:
Apostolic Apologetics: Chapter 1 of 16 (8:47)(As of Feb 14, 2025, I turned this video project into an audio project. See audio version of Apostolic Apologetics to hear me read this chapter.) - Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach writes that America’s “founding generation wove biblical language, often without quotation marks or explicit references, into the various written communications of daily life, including public papers. Quotation marks and citations were unnecessary to identify the source of words so familiar to a biblically literate people.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) – This is similar to the way our generation often makes pop culture references without always giving details about the source. Great! (Sigh.) Our generation knows pop culture as well as America’s founding generation knew the Bible.
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Friday, January 31, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 33:17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
They will behold a far-distant land.
(The King is Jesus; His beauty is His righteousness; the far-distant land is heaven; the eyes are our faith.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:11-12 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” – No one in his right mind wants to be insulted, persecuted, and falsely accused, especially not for doing the right things in life…but it’s comforting to know that enduring such things down here (where everything is temporary) will produce rewards up there (where everything is permanent).
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Acts 10:38 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: I’m Not a Bible “Answer Man” (0:57)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: Further to the point I made in this space yesterday, French historian Emmanuel Todd speaks for all foreigners when he observes that the main feature of American foreign policy at this stage in our history has become unreliability. This is, he says, because each new US administration can easily cross out what was achieved by the previous one. If we want foreigners – whether friend or foe – to believe that we’re returning to the America the world once knew, we’ve got a lot of repentance and work still ahead of us. It’s always harder to finish something than to start it.
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Thursday, January 30, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:5 Who is the one who overcomes the world,
but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
(Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is …the conviction of things not seen.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Leviticus 17:11 ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.’ – The reason Jesus’ blood is emphasized in the apostles’ writings is that His life was in it. (Leviticus is speaking literally of animal blood, but figuratively prophesying of Christ. That is, His life was poured out to atone for our sins and give life to our souls.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ram of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Landing Zones in your Bible (1:01)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: God-fearing Americans are right to rejoice in the direction and force of the new president’s initial executive orders. They are a return to sanity and a step toward righteousness. However, precisely because they are executive orders and not laws passed by Congress, they can all be reversed on the day that the opposition party wins back the presidency. Therefore, we must remember the fragility of our current turn back toward the light our founders left us and keep working to make more permanent what is currently only temporary.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Chr 25:2 He did right in the sight of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.
(Oof! If we’re going to go His way, let’s go ALL the way!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 11:28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” – What Martha said here to Mary, the Holy Spirit is now and forever saying to all of us. Jesus Christ is the Teacher – come to teach us all how to live in this difficult world.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Zechariah 14:9 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Writing in your Bible (1:01)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach says that during our country’s founding era, “…Americans lived in a culture shaped by Christianity and its sacred text. The Bible, more than any other written word, informed the world of the founding fathers and the society around them. It was the most accessible book in eighteenth-century America and was among the most important sources of cultural influence in the colonial and early national periods. It shaped the language. It also informed education, letters, arts, law, and politics.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 5) These days? Not so much.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:20 …repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.
(To “turn to God” is to walk in the spirit instead of in the flesh.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – These days, what percentage of our country’s citizens are righteous enough to qualify for persecution?
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Lamb of God – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Read the Bible like you’d read a library (0:56)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Current Events: The following excerpt is taken from the speech that Vice President J. D. Vance gave at the March for Life in Washington last Friday. Please notice in the excerpt how he discusses abortion in its proper context – which is the issue of family, and specifically family formation. Abortion is not just an attack on the child, it is an attack on the family that will be deprived of that child. (full video of his speech 12:52; full transcript of his speech)
Now the task of our movement is to protect innocent life. It’s to defend the unborn and it’s also to be pro-family and pro-life in the fullest sense of that word possible. Now, across my own lifetime, I can’t tell you the number of friends and other acquaintances I’ve had who, facing a pregnancy or the prospect of one, react not with joy but with concern. They wonder how can they afford it; what will it mean for their education, their career, their relationship or their family?
And I know how many of you in this crowd have devoted immeasurable time and resources to help answer those questions and to lend a hand to young people facing a moment of desperation. But by and large, our society, our country has not yet stepped up in the way you have; and our government certainly has failed in that important responsibility. We failed a generation not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to [live] a happy and meaningful life. A culture of radical individualism took root, one where the responsibilities and joys of family life were seen as obstacles to overcome, not as personal fulfillment or personal blessings. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another, is a core part of living in a society to begin with.
So let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.
And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are here at the March for Life.
Now, it should be easier to raise a family, easier to find a good job, easier to build a home to raise that family in, easier to save up and purchase a good stroller, a crib for a nursery. We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages, one that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our GDP number or our stock market, but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country.
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Monday, January 27, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 5:22 “…Do you not tremble in My presence?…
(If so, sorry for the disrespect, Lord; we’ll do better!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Exodus 12:5 ‘Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old… – In describing the Passover lamb that each Israelite family was to sacrifice the night before the exodus from Egypt, Moses was foreshadowing Messiah…who would be the sacrifice for our sins and the never-ending nourishing meal for all who love righteousness.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 1 John 3:23 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Read the Bible like you would eat an elephant (0:52)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach reports that “George Washington warned in his Farewell Address of September 1796 that one who labors to subvert a public role for religion and morality cannot call oneself a patriot.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) – Here’s the way Washington put it: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens.” (source: George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796, in Writings of Washington, 35:229) – How many Americans today would tolerate their president defining patriotism in this way?
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Sunday, January 26, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 26:3 KJV Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee…
(Admittedly, it’s hard to keep the mind stayed…but isn’t perfect peace worth that effort?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the way this man speaks.” – You don’t have to read too many of the red letters in the Bible to realize how true this statement is.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Sun – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: When I read the Bible, I sometimes understand parts of it (0:56)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Why do modern American historians give scant attention to Christian and biblical elements of our nation’s founding? Daniel Dreisbach explains: “…[S]cholars trained in the modern academy, with its emphasis on the strictly rational and the secular, may discount biblical themes because they find them less noteworthy or sophisticated than the intellectual contributions of the Enlightenment. There may even be a discomfort with or, perhaps, hostility toward explicitly religious material and themes. Some fear that mere acknowledgment of Christianity’s and the Bible’s influence on the American founding will diminish the Enlightenment’s influence and buttress the alleged theocratic impulses of some twenty-first-century citizens. Moreover, some scholars find a focus on the God of the Bible and biblical religion divisive or even offensive to twenty-first-century, secular sensibilities.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 1:26 …among you stands One whom you do not know.
(His name is the Lord Jesus Christ…and some of us are getting to know Him.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” – Conversely, cursed are the troublemakers.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Galatians 2:20 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Repent! – Repentance Is from Sin to Righteousness (0:31)
- Weekly Video: Everyone Is Going to Heaven 10) Review (14:57)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Christian demographer George Barna has just released his latest research. It includes these dismal statistics: “For the past 30 years, since Barna started measuring worldview in America in the early 1990s, the incidence of biblical worldview has been steadily declining. The pace of that decline has rapidly increased since the turn of the millennium. With just 4% of adults, 2% of parents of preteens, a mere 1% of teenagers, and just 37% of Christian-church pastors possessing the biblical worldview, the incidence level cannot get much lower.” (full report; related research from Barna) – We must learn, and teach our children, how to swim upstream like salmon.
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Matthew 1:23 “…THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,”
which translated means, “GOD WITH US.”
(In other words, we are not without Him – He is not against us.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 49:10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, / Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, / Until Shiloh comes, /And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.” – This is Jacob prophesying on his deathbed that the messiah (i.e. the promised one) would be a descendant of his son Judah and would rule over all nations.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Seed – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Righteousness and Sin (0:31)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: “Why, then, has modern scholarship missed or dismissed the Bible’s place in the political discourse of the founders? Often the most important things in life, like the air we breathe, do not receive the attention they merit because they are so pervasive and so much a part of our very existence that they are taken for granted. This may account for the historian’s inattention to the Bible’s place in the American founding. Biblical illiteracy, especially a lack of familiarity with the distinct phrases and cadences of the King James Bible, may explain the failure of some scholars to recognize the biblical language in this literature. The founders often quoted the Bible without the use of quotations marks or citations, which were not necessary for a biblically literate society but the absence of which fail to alert a biblically illiterate modern audience to the Bible’s invocation.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Thursday, January 23, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 1:19 “…I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
(He’s not just along for the ride; He’s with us for a purpose!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” – This is John the Baptist testifying to the difference Jesus can make in a human life.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 4:5 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Righteousness is a Function of Context (0:57)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): One of the many comments that historian Mark A. Noll has made about America’s founding era include writing that “the nation’s founders were conversant with scripture,” [which] “should not be surprising…for they lived at a time when to be an educated member of the Atlantic community was to know the Bible.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 2) – May our Lord grant that this become true in our land once again…because it’s sure not true now!
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
John 11:28 …”The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
(Morning roll call!)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” – James 4:8 …purify your hearts, you double-minded.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ Is the Shepherd – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Revelation (0:43)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Apparently, Donald Trump did not have his left hand on the Bible when taking the oath of office for the US presidency on Monday. Whether that was his fault or the fault of Chief Justice John Roberts, who did not wait for Melania who was holding the two Bibles to be used (Lincoln’s and Trump’s), depends on which news source you read. Either way, it’s a sign of the times. Slightly more subtle was the sign of Carrie Underwood having to sing “America the Beautiful” without backing music.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Ezek 48:35 “…the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘The LORD is there’.”
(The “there” Ezekiel prophesied is here.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 28:14 “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. – This is the promise God made first to Abram, then to Isaac, and, in this instance, to Jacob. It was fulfilled in their descendant Jesus Christ, to whom we have been joined in covenant.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 11:2-3 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Responsibilities of a Man (0:47)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: One of the many comments that historian Mark A. Noll has made about America’s founding era include “that the nation’s founders were conversant with scripture,” which “should not be surprising…for they lived at a time when to be an educated member of the Atlantic community was to know the Bible.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017, page 2) – May our Lord grant that this become true in our land once again…because it’s sure not true now!
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Monday, January 20, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Jonah 1:10 …he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD…
(You’re either running from God or to Him – which is it today?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” – Mary would lose her confidence in Jesus after the wedding in Cana, but then would regain it after that. If you lose confidence in Jesus, make haste to regain it. He is worthy of our trust.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Replacement God (0:53)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Wikipedia says, “Daniel Dreisbach is an American author, academic, and attorney. He is currently a professor at the American University School of Public Affairs, teaching in the Department of Justice, Law and Criminology.” Dreisbach researched all the relevant evidence we have regarding America’s founding generation and wrote this sentence: “The extant record suggests that the founders and their contemporaries knew the Bible better than any other literary work.” That is a mouthful! Especially when compared to America’s current generation. (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
OT: Isaiah 30:20 Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.
(NT: John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.” – The less mercy we show, the less we experience. (The hardest part of getting judged is learning that we did it to ourselves.)
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The world doesn’t need another religion (0:30)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach says that “The [American] founders’ frequent use of the Bible is no surprise because they lived in an overwhelmingly Protestant culture and in a biblically literate society.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) – To read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights outside of this context will lead to gross misunderstandings of their content and therefore a distortion of their intent – which is exactly what we have today. For example, the First Amendment in its original context called for the government to protect the freedom of religion, but in our current context the government only protects freedom from religion. Just ask the wedding florists and cake bakers.
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world–our faith.
(Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 17:19 But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. – Sarah was as much a part of the miracle as Abraham was. That Isaac’s birth was miraculous foreshadowed the Messiah’s birth would be as well – only more so!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Stone – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: What are you doing with the New Testament? (0:54)
- Weekly Video: Everyone Is Going to Heaven 9) Beware of Universalism (15:06)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): In the American Civil War, both political parties – that is, Republicans and Democrats – appealed to the God of the Bible as supporting its respective position. With respect to current-day Republicans and Democrats and the deep division between them, however, only one of these political parties is appealing to the God of the Bible as supporting its position – and not even all Republicans at that. This sign should tell us something about the danger of our current national dilemma – and how much greater it is than what we faced in the Civil War.
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Friday, January 17, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Acts 27:25 “…keep up your courage, men,
for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.
(Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for…)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. – A sentence this profound could be marveled at for centuries without reaching the limits of its meaning. History has proven this. And still is.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 20:30-31 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Have you made your decision about the New Testament? (0:48)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Modern sources tend to memory hole biblical influences on the American founders while playing up Enlightenment philosophers like Locke and Montesquieu. However, historian Daniel Dreisbach reports that “Following an extensive survey of American political literature from 1760 to 1805, political scientist Donald S. Lutz reported that the Bible was referenced more frequently than any European writer or even any European school of thought, such as the Enlightenment or Whig intellectual traditions.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 Sam 16:7 …God sees not as man sees,
for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
(Nothing is more life-changing than trusting that your thoughts and motives matter to God.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” – It is shocking how many people who call on the name of Jesus show few signs of appreciating just how strongly He feels about righteousness.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Ladder – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: What are you going to do about the New Testament? (0:45)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Historian Daniel Dreisbach has written, “The Bible left its mark on the political culture of the founding era [of America]. The political discourse of the age – both private and public – was replete with quotations from, allusions to, and the rhythms of the King James Bible. There were founders who regarded the Bible as indispensable to the American experiment in republican self-government and liberty under law.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) Given modern America’s commitments to secularism, multiculturalism, and pluralism, the Bible has to be thought of as dispensable “to the American experiment in republican self-government and liberty under law” – or else atheists, agnostics, and other religions would be disenfranchised. This is not your founders’ America.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
OT: Psalm 73:28 …the nearness of God is my good…
(NT: James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you…)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 12:3 “And I will bless those who bless you, / And the one who curses you I will curse. / And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” – God made this promise to Abram (Abraham), and Jesus, as a descendant of Abram, inherited it. Through our relationship with Jesus Christ, we inherit all the promises of God: 2 Corinthians 1:20 For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 13:34 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The NT Is a Wall of Truth! (0:35)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): It can’t be a good sign that America has normalized pornography to the extent that it’s just another industry in our economy – a component of GDP. Ho hum.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 10:5 …we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ…
(If we’re not treating Jesus as lord of our thought lives, we’re not treating Him as Lord.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” – We will miss the main point of Jesus’ resurrection if we think of it in isolation. Rather, we must understand that it was a fulfillment of what God had promised through the Old Testament. As Paul put it: 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Cleft Rock – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Is the New Testament Reliable History…or a Pack of Lies? (0:13)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): The terms “hate speech,” “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” were designed to cloak unrighteous intentions. Such terms are weasel words that God-fearing people refuse to use. We stick with old-fashioned words like “true” or “false,” “right” or “wrong,” and “fact” or “opinion.”
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Monday, January 13, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
Eph 4:10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens,
so that He might fill all things…
(Thus He is filling the place where you are right now – wherever that place might be.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.” – Being harsh is for losers. You can be gentle and firm at the same time – Jesus was and is. But you can’t be gentle and harsh at the same time.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 11:25-26 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Greatest Conspiracy Theory of All Time (0:41)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach has written, “Many [of the American] founders were students of the Bible, and a few even wrote Bible commentaries and learned discourses on theology and Christian doctrine and practice.” In a footnote to this sentence, he adds, “Among the influential founders who wrote about Christian theology and doctrines are Elias Boudinot, John Dickinson, Oliver Ellsworth, John Jay, Benjamin Rush, Roger Sherman, and John Witherspoon.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) – Perhaps the closest we’ve come to something like this is President Jimmy Carter being a Sunday school teacher and a self-declared born again man. That said, John Lennon’s Imagine was “the most compelling musical performance of the 39th president’s funeral” last Thursday. It was known as Carter’s favorite Beatles song. I don’t think this is the kind of “Christian theology and doctrines” about which Boudinot, Dickinson, and the rest were writing.
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Sunday, January 12, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(The last two words of this sentence are critical to its meaning. Therefore, abide IN HIM so that you may become truly righteous.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity / Between you and the woman, / And between your seed and her seed; / He shall bruise you on the head, / And you shall bruise him on the heel.” – This is God pronouncing judgment on the serpent after his role in Adam’s and Eve’s sin. The Messiah would suffer – but not nearly as much as the serpent would!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Passover – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Second Greatest Conspiracy Theory of All Time (0:59)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: Historian Daniel Dreisbach writes, “The American founders read the Bible. Their many quotations from and allusions to both familiar and obscure scriptural passages confirm that they knew the Bible from cover to cover. Biblical language and themes liberally seasoned their rhetoric. The phrases and cadences of the King James Bible, especially, informed their written and spoken words. Its ideas shaped their habits of mind.” (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) Mentally substitute “The current American leadership class” for “The American founders” and see if the paragraph still holds true – without simultaneously laughing and crying.
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:9 …God has sent His only begotten Son into the world
so that we might live through Him.
(John 1:4 In Him was life…)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:32 They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” – Jesus made this statement to His disciples before a single word of the New Testament had been written. And, indeed, when we start seeing Jesus revealed in the Old Testament, it’s like someone lit a match to our hearts.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in John 8:31-32 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is the Kingdom of Heaven (0:59)
- Weekly Video: Everyone Is Going to Heaven 8) The Defeat of Death (14:50)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Christ in American History: “The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition, but at an epoch when…the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of society.” – George Washington, Circular to the States, June 8, 1783 (source: Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Oxford University Press, 2017) The “revelation” to which Washington was referring was, of course, the Bible revealing Jesus Christ.
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Friday, January 10, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature…
(Rev 21:5 …“Behold, I am making all things new.”…)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – No one can escape mourning in this world – it is the inevitable consequence of sin. What’s really sad, though, is people going without comfort in their mourning. Those who reject Jesus and His kingdom are rejecting the comfort for mourning that it includes.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Branch – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God in the 21st Century (1:01)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Regarding the people affected by the recent fires in California, the earthquake in Tibet, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and other calamities on this earth, we should always remember this that Jesus said: Luke 13:1-5 Now on the same occasion there were some present who reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. And Jesus said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem? I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
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Thursday, January 9, 2025
Repent, for the kingdom of God is here and now in Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 2:10 …the salvation which is in Christ Jesus…
(Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else…”)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” – The primary form in which Satan presents this question to modern man is, “Indeed, has God said anything at all?” It is the great granddaddy of all temptations. God came to answer this question eternally and emphatically in Jesus Christ. And the New Testament documents this divine answer.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Matthew 1:21 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Kingdom of God Is Here and Now (0:58)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. – This is a good way for a family to live life.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Repent!
Ps 116:9 I shall walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
(This is walking in the spirit.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Luke 24:27 Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. – An eye-opening Bible study if there ever was one!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Leader – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The King’s Decree (0:32)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Other Voices from Other Contexts: A recent political article I noticed was titled “Faith and family are keys to resisting tyranny’s grip.” The title is true, and explains why tyrannical governments ignore what is important to families – especially families of faith – in order to serve the special interest groups who are supporting the regime.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Repent!
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness,
we lie and do not practice the truth;
(A secular life is a darkened life.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” – In other words, blessed is the man who is not full of himself. The man who is poor in spirit knows he’s in need; the man who is rich in spirit thinks he has no need of the Lord or His Spirit.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Genesis 49:10 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The King Summons You! (0:45)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Other Voices from Other Contexts: Recently, a podcast focused on American border and immigration control published an episode titled, “The Responsibility of Fathers to Provide a Moral Code.” What a great thought to include in the mix!
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Monday, January 6, 2025
Repent!
OT: Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
(NT: Romans 1:21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks,
but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. – God defines family in one sentence.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Prophet – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The King Is Dead – Long Live the King! (0:47)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: James 1:5-6 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. – One of the definitions Merriam-Webster gives for “wisdom” is “a wise attitude, belief, or course of action.” If we doubt that God wants to grant us this, that is some serious doubting! No wonder James goes on to emphatically denounce such doubting: James 1:7-8 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
Repent!
Genesis 3:8 …the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God…
(Why do we run from God instead of to Him?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 1:23 “BEHOLD, THE VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD AND SHALL BEAR A SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL,” which translated means, “GOD WITH US.” – Matthew is here quoting (in all caps) from things the prophet Isaiah wrote in chapters 7, 8, and 9 of the Old Testament book that bears his name.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in Hebrews 13:8 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Letting Go of Church to Grasp the Kingdom of God (0:58)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): When mainstream news outlets publish articles like “‘Dinosaur highway’ dating back 166 million years discovered in England” (source: PBS News, January 2, 2025) without the slightest reference to God, Jesus, or the Bible, they are signaling that secularism has fully conquered Christianity in the public mind. And when children grow into teenagers and graduate from K-12 school systems steeped in the same attitude, they tend to abandon the faith they were taught as children – because it seems childish to them in the light of all that they have learned in school and all that they are experiencing in culture. They are forced by logic to believe in either evolution or the Bible because the two cannot be reconciled.
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Repent!
1 John 1:5 …God is Light…
(John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world…”)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” – If, as some people say, the kingdom of heaven has not yet arrived, then this statement by Jesus makes Him look foolish or false. But He is neither!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as Lord – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Show a Man What He May Let Go Of… (0:56)
- Weekly Video: Everyone Is Going to Heaven 7) Free Will (14:39)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Data reported in 2024 by the US Census Bureau led to this article: 1 in 8 Americans feels lonely a lot of the time: That number rises to nearly 1 in 4 for younger people (per Sherwood News, October 4, 2024). Hmm. Is it possible that modern America’s rejection of the biblical model for the nuclear family has anything to do with this development?
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Friday, January 3, 2025
Repent!
Matthew 6:4 “…your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”
(Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him…)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. – Of course, we hear proponents of evolutionary theory say otherwise, but then there’s this: Romans 1:22-23 Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in 2 John 1:9-11 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: The Secular Mind Versus the Christian Mind (0:58)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Let Us Pray: Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. – Which advice is easier to follow: “Stop being anxious” or “Stop being anxious by praying instead”? (It’s easier to stop thinking about elephants if someone gives you something else to think about instead of just telling you, “Don’t think about elephants.”)
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
Repent!
Isaiah 66:1-2 …”But to this one I will look,
To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
(He sees all of us all the time, but His attention is particularly drawn to people like this.)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 1:21 “She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” – People who are unconcerned about their sins perceive little need for a savior. Unfortunately, there seems to be a growing number of such people.
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ as the Son – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: Secularism Is the Biggest Lie of the Modern Age (0:57)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Credit Card Defaults Surge to 14-Year High – Alas, the trend lines seem to headed in the same direction for personal debt, the national debt, and our society’s pile of unrepented-of sins. (Recall that sins we have not repented of are debts, as indicated in the prayer request “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.)
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Wednesday, January 1, 2025
New Year’s Day
Hosea 6:1 “Come, let us return to the LORD…”
(What good has it ever done us to wander away from Him?)
Basics
- Here are today’s Bible chapter readings, with links to the reading companions (the written and audio reading companions are complementary, not identical):
- The Apostles (NT):
- The Prophets (OT):
Extras
- Messianic Verse of the Day: Matthew 4:4 …“It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'” – Jesus had an “It is written” kind of faith. Let us imitate it!
- A Timed Psalter – A tool to help you or your family read a whole psalm when time is limited.
- A Daily Audio Capsule of Christ: Jesus Christ in the Acts of the Apostles 2:36 – a 3-5 minute pep pill. It will help you remember to always focus on X as the point of the Bible…and as the purpose of living.
- Daily Video Minute: It’s a Salvation of the Soul from Sin (0:57)
- Overflow – These are short notes that come from my own Bible reading, contemplation, and prayer that don’t easily fit into one of my other categories.
- Signs of the Times (Matt 16:1-4; Eccl 1:9-10; 1 Chr 12:32): Brazil’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue is caught in a battle between church and state.
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