06/10/2025 – Morning Devotion / “We live unto the Lord.” Romans 14:8
If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should …
Read More06/04/2025 – Day 339 – Nehemiah – Chapters 5 – 9 / 5 of 5 / Chapter 9 commentary – “A Time to Mourn”
Let’s get started with J.G. McConville’s commentary on Chapter 9:
“It was right to celebrate God’s goodness to the returned exiles in enabling Jerusalem to be built. Their leaders however …
Read More06/04/2025 – Day 339 – Nehemiah – Chapters 5 – 9 / 4 of 5 / Chapter 8 commentary – “The Need to Know” and “A Time to Dance”
Picking up J.G. McConville’s commentary from pg. # 115, under (ii):
“This chapter is the most important, however, for its picture of Israel at worship. The buzz of excitement at …
Read More06/09/2025 – “The possibilities of prayer run parallel with the promises of God.” E. M. Bounds
Soli Deo Gloria!
Read More06/09/2024 – “… Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life’s song, “He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.” // Link below to Spurgeon’s free daily devotional. It is not about the messenger, but it is a rich habit to bookend your day.
“The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.”Psalm 126:3
Some Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more …
Read More06/04/2025 – Day 339 – Nehemiah – Ch 5 – 9 / 3 of 5 / “Chapter 7 commentary -“Priorities” – Nehemiah, God’s messenger, “a leader who knows that all true success is the product of godliness … these are the things which have established Jerusalem and frustrated the malevolence of her antagonists.”
Let’s proceed with excerpts from this edifying commentary from J.G. McConville starting on pg. # 110:
“… The inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem stand at the end of the long process, …
Read More06/08/2025 – “There is a Higher Throne.” arr. Robert E. Grass – Covenant Choirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV3uFKQoamE_
Soli Deo Gloria!
Read More06/04/2025 – Day 339 – Nehemiah – Chapters 5 – 9 – 2 of 5 / Chapter 5: “Strife Within” commentary
I give you excerpts of “Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther” commentary, by J.G. McConville:
“Ever since the days of Zerubbabel, we have been accustomed to reading of the difficulties put in the …
Read More06/08/2025 – “Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther” by J.G. McConville – Commentary Book recommendation
I think I am going to put a pause at day 340 – Psalms 140 – 142 on the 365 read through the Bible plan. I have …
Read More06/08/2025 – “What’s Next to Do” / “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them” (John 13:17).
“Be determined to know more than others. If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm …
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