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04/01/2025 – Day 276 – 2 Chronicles – Chapters 10 -14 / Chapters 10 – 12 – Rehoboam, king of Judah. 933 – 916. Summary commentary from “Halley’s Bible Handbook.”

If I haven’t mentioned it yet, 2 Chronicles covers basically the same ground as Kings 1 & II, except 2 Chronicles omits the narratives about the kings of the seceded …

03/31/2025 – Day 275 – Numbers 29 – 32 / 31: 13-24 – “Their very survival as the holy community of faith was at stake…” / Questions without answers except prayer! Thoughts?

From “The Apologetics Study Bible” footnotes to our reading:

“31: 13-24. The purpose of holy wars was the eradication of impure elements, whether persons or property, from a given geographic region. …

04/30/2025 – Day 274 – Acts – Chapter 3 & 4 // “Preaching in Solomon’s Portico” (Acts 3: 11- 26)- “Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.”

For today’s reading: I may use commentary from one of following three sources so designated: 1). “The Daily Study Bible Series – The Acts of the Apostles Revised Edition” …

03/29/2025 – Day 272 – Obadiah – Chapter 1 (only chapter to the book) / vs. 15 – 18 – Commentary on “The Day of the Lord is near” section

First, if you aren’t familiar with the book of Obadiah, I recommend reading the post dated 02/13/2021, a book summary from Haley’s Bible Handbook. Now, let’s take a look …

03/27/2025 – Day 270 – Psalm – Chapters 114 – 116 / Three cycles of comments and I repeat 116:15 for the third time, a first perhaps never to be repeated.

“The death of His faithful ones is valuable in the Lord’s sight.” Psalm 116:15

It doesn’t make sense to the world. But we are in the world but not …

03/26/2025 – Day 269 – 2 Chronicles – Chapters 6 – 9

Solomon’s Prayer – 6: 12 – 6: 42: Our prayer group at our church pray through the Psalms weekly. That will remain the core, but we will add …

03/24/2025 – Day 267 – Acts – Chapter 1 – 2 // 2 of 2// 1:8 – “If a person is filled with the Holy Spirit, his witness will not be optional or mandatory – it will be inevitable.” Richard Halverson

And I will add four more verse commentaries from “The Evidence Bible – NKJV”:

“1:10,11 The inference is, Don’t stand there gazing up into the heavens. God has granted everlasting …

03/24/2025 – Day 267 – Acts – Chapter 1 and 2 // The First Christian Preaching – Acts 2: 14 -42 – “This ‘kerugma’ follows a pattern which repeats itself over and over again all over the New Testament.”// Fourteen consecutive Monday Acts readings.// 1 of 2

If y’all haven’t gone through it already, I recommend the two prior cycle posts on today’s readings. Use the search tool on “Day 267”

We have covered the Holy Spirit, …

03/23/2025 – Day 266 – Philippians – Chapter 1 – 4 / “Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice (4: 4-7). Joy is the predominant note of this Epistle. Written by a man in prison, who for thirty years had been mobbed, beaten, stoned, and cuffed about, enough to make the angels gasp. Yet he is overflowing with JOY.” Halley’s Bible Handbook – pg. 620

Here is a selection of verse commentary from “The Apologetics Study Bible” that I found particularly edifying:

“2:7. Jesus’ self emptying (kenosis) cannot mean loss of deity or divine attributes; God …