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 …
Read More03/24/2025 – 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, …
Read More03/24/2025 – “How Congress can limit activist judges” (See Article 3 of the constitution) // “Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separated from legislative power and the executive power.” Baron Montesquieu
Warrior tools? / That would be the Constitution of the United States duly applied as written. Imagine that!
Read More03/24/2025 – “Search for the LORD and for His strength; seek His face always.” Psalm 105:4
Shimon The Young
Monday, March 24, 2025
Luke tells of a man named Simeon, or Shimon in Hebrew. He was a remarkable man. Simeon was old. Most older people are looking for …
Read More03/23/2025 – 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 …
Read More03/22/2025 – Day 265 – Amos 5 – 9 / Concluding with: “Announcement of Restoration” , 800 years hence…
According to Halley’s Bible Handbook, the prophecy of Amos, was delivered to the northern kingdom, approximately three years before the fall of Israel in 722 B.C. Bear in mind …
Read More03/23/2025 – Again: “Do we really believe what we say we believe is really real?” / Re: Samaritan’s Purse ministry in Sudan and beyond…
This is an email I sent to our prayer group at church:
These excerpts are from Franklin Graham’s heartwarming, Praise God! update for Samaritan’s Purse ministry in Sudan that we received …
Read More03/23/2025 – Morning scriptural devotional
March 23MORNING
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. Rev. 4:8
Thou art holy, O thou that inhabiteth the praises of Israel. Psa. 22:3
Draw not nigh hither; …
Read More03/23/2025 – “The Centrality Factor” (Day 309) / “The Mission: Whatever is of God is in the center. Put the things of God in the center of this day. And make God the center around which your life revolves.”
The “Book of Mysteries”, by Jonathan Cahn is one of my favorite devotionals of all time. “Day 309” does not correspond with our Semikkah7 Bible Study; today is Day …
Read More03/22/2025 – “The Burning Heart” / “Did not our heart burn within us …?” (Luke 24:32).
“We need to learn this secret of the burning heart. Suddenly Jesus appears to us, fires are set ablaze, and we are given wonderful visions; but then we must …
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