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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 …

03/20/2025 – Day 264 – Proverbs – Chapter 25

“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.” Proverbs 25:2

This is another winsome single verse commentary from …

03/19/2025 – Day 263 – Psalm 111 – 113 / The Hallel Psalms : 113 – 118 – Sung on the night of Passover.

Taken from Halley’s Bible Handbook:

“Psalm 111. Majesty, Honor, Righteousness, Mercy, Justice, Faithfulness, Truth, Holiness, and Eternity of God. Verse 9 is the only place in the Bible where …

03/16/2025 – Day 260 – Our conclusion to John’s Gospel- Chapters 19 -21/ Next Monday, we will start with a 14 week study in Acts, up to our last week in this cycle.

Again, you might want to look at the posts from the category: “The Gospel of John – 21 chapters in 21 days”. There are four posts for these final three …

03/16/2025 – Day 259 – Titus – Chapters 1 – 3 / Early 60s – Titus was apparently in Crete where Paul combated false teaching (1: 6,12), similar to that faced by Timothy in Ephesus.

My commentary is entirely from “The Apologetics Study Bible” for today’s reading:

“while we wait for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, …

03/14/2025 – Day 257 – Proverbs – Chapter 23 – 24 / “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; Lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him. And He turn away His wrath from him.” (Proverbs 24: 17 – 18)

Commentary from John Gill’s commentary online (free):

“24:18… among all the terrible words spoken concerning the penalty of sin, the most terrible are those which were uttered by our Lord …

03/13/2025 – Day 256 – Psalm – Chapters 108 – 110 / “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.’ Psalm 110: 4

Here is Matthew Henry’s commentary on Psalm 110:4, pg. # 698:

“6. He should be not only a king, but a priest, v. 4. Our Lord Jesus Christ, is …

03/10/2025 – Day 253 – John – Chapters 16 – 18 / Ch. 17 – Four words: “Sublime Unfathomable Eternal Truth”

For me, those four words point directly from John 17: Jesus Prays for Himself; His Disciples; All Believers:

“Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said: Father, the …