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05/16/2025 – Day 320 – Ecclesiastes – Chapters 7 – 8 / Commentary on 7:26: “And I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains.”

I think this verse could lean one to unfairly tag Solomon as a “mysogynist”. But I think my Apologetics Study Bible really sheds a light over a larger context …

05/15/2025 – Day 319 – Psalm – Chapters 131 – 133 / Chapter 133 – “Blessed Unity of the People of God” – “… For there the LORD commanded the blessing — Life forevermore.” (133:3)

“Lord, my heart is not haughty, Nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I concern myself with great matters, Nor with things too profound for me.” (131:1)

The commentary in …

05/12/2025 – Day 316 – Acts – Chapter 15 – 16 / “A Son in the Faith” – Acts 16: 1 – 5

A heartwarming commentary from William Barclay on these five verses:

“It was five years since Paul had preached in Derbe and Lystra but when he returned his heart must have been …

05/08/2025 – Day 312 – Psalm – 128 – 130 // Psalm 129 – One thing is certain, final victory for Israel is coming…

See Romans 11: 25-26. Here is commentary for these verses out of the Apologetics Study Bible:

“11: 25-26 Paul showed here that hardening is not a permanent sentence against Israel, …

05/07/2025 – Day 311 – 2 Chronicles – Chapters 33 – 36 : From Manasseh King of Judah through the Fall of Jerusalem.

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3: 22-23)

Unbelievable!: When …

05/06/2025 – Day 310 – Deuteronomy – Chapters 10 – 12 // “The Covenant Renewed” / “What God Requires” / “Remember and Obey” / “A Blessing and a Curse” / “The Chosen Place of Worship” / “Slaughtering Animals to Eat”

The verse commentary is out of “The Apologetics Study Bible”:

“10:4. The Lord wrote the same words on the second set of tablets as the first. This action attests the …

05/01/2025 – Day 305 – Psalm – Chapters 125 – 127 // Psalm 127 – “The Blessing of the Lord”

“In vain you get up early and stay up late, eating food earned by hard work; certainly he gives sleep to the one He loves.” Psalm 127:2

At first the commentary …

04/29/2025 – Day 303 – Deuteronomy – Chapters 7 – 9 // Ch. 7: “Israel to Destroy Idolatrous Nations” / Ch. 8: “Remember the Lord” / CH. 9 – “Warning Against Self-Righteousness

The excerpt commentary from this reading comes from “The Apologetics Study Bible”

“7:6. God, in His sovereign grace, makes decisions based upon his omniscient wisdom in line with plans and purposes …

04/27/2025 – Day 301 – James – Chapters 1 – 3 / “For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.”

In our first cycle of today’s reading, there is a post covering the 1999 Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification, Post one of three , dated 03/14/2021. It …

04/26/2025 – Day 300 – Habakkuk – Chapters 1 – 3 / “Chapter Three – Habakkuk’s Prayer” – An amazing faith testimony, by God’s grace alone!

You may might want to review the first cycle post dated 03/13/2021 for this day as well titled “God’s hope through faith is founded in a holy fear.”

Halley’s Bible Handbook …