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11/05/2022 – Day 251 – Joel 1 – 3 // “The Day of the Lord” – “And afterward I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophecy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions…. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Joel 2: 28 – 31

Last cycle, we have a post dated 01/23/2021 for this reading that reviews Matthew Henry’s commentary on the book of Joel. A search of “O1/23/2021” should call it …

11/03/2022 – Day 249 – Psalm 103 – 107

Chapter Summaries from “Halleys Bible Handbook”:

Psalm 103. A Psalm of God’s Mercy

“Thought to have been written in David’s old age, summarizing God’s dealings with him. One of the …

11/01/2022 – Day 246 – John 13 – 15 / “Jesus Comforts His Disciples”/ Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit”/”The Vine and the Branches

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. …

10/15/2022 – Day 230 – Daniel 7 – 12 – Too rich in prophecy!: I highly recommend “On the Way to the Future – Daniel’s Visions and the Believer’s Hope” by Ray C. Stedman as a great tool to help sort it out!

Stedman starts out his commentary in Chapter 7 by proposing an apt analogy: For the early astronauts in particular, countdowns were nerve-wracking, “even for astronauts with the ‘right stuff’!” …

10/28/2025 – Day 243 – Proverbs 20 & 21// 20:16 – a required look up with John Gill commentary

“Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for a wayward woman.”

Proverbs 20:16

As to the garment clause, John …

10/23/2022 – Day 238 – 1 Timothy Chapters 4 – 6 // 6:16 – Illustrated example of letting scripture testify to scripture.

https://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/csb-apologetics/twisted-scripture-1-timothy-6-16.html

Ooops, I take that back, this is not a good illustration of comparing verses for each side of an argument to determine the appropriate biblical interpretation. Check …

10/14/2022 – Day 229 – Proverbs 17 – 18 // Interesting amongst all the words of wisdom, what verses do we highlight? And don’t they change at different points in our journey here?

Henry H. Halley, in my “Halley’s Bible Handbook” , capsulizes verse themes in about 3 or 4 sentences per chapter. We no doubt could pick out these verses based …

10/14/2022 – Day 229 – Proverbs 17 – 18 // Which verses seemed to really grab you?

My mother told me early on from childhood: “Jimmy, if you have just one true friend your entire lifetime, consider yourself blessed.” Brother John, you will be …

10/12/2022 – Day 227 – 1 Chronicles 5 – 9 / “What is the relevance of the genealogies in the Bible?”

https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-genealogies.html

Soli Deo Gloria!