As part of our studying Proverbs we were encouraged to plan. Planning and diligence are the ways of the wise. Laziness and sloth are ways of the foolish. This includes spiritual diet, physical exercise, friendship, finances, and all areas of life. How have I been with my daily reading and devotion time? Not very good. [...]
Been working through Salt and Light sunday school at church. Sonship is continuing as we are gaining traction. Reminder of how great a God has called us his own. Devotional times have been slow and seldom as we have been prepping many things. I am reminded that we need to turn to God especially during [...]
It seems like I have less and less time to blog. As for our corporate times of worship, we have relegated to evenings nearing bed time to read the scriptures and pray. One of the things I want to continue to incorporate is singing and more intercessory prayers. Some of the main requests as of [...]
Continue in our reading of 1 Samuel. This has been slow as we have also been reading through our daughter’s children’s bible. The children’s bible provides more pictures and little less depth, than the Family Bible, but overall the time has been quite good as our daughter is intrigued by the pictures. Jonah seems to [...]
We finished up the book of Ruth and continued with 1 Samuel. During the time of judges we see the corrupting nature of sin as men were being led astray from God. In Ruth we see the same thing happening but also a strand of hope. God in his providence provided a line to redeem [...]
As we finished up Nehemiah, we were deeply convicted by what we do on Sundays. We were also deeply convicted in our hearts as to how our hearts are pulled in so many directions but we forget to rest in the Lord and place the Lord first on the sabbath. We began reading Esther today. [...]
We continued with our reading of Ezra, finishing the book and starting Nehemiah next. Ezra concludes with a public confession of sin and moving to a list of all the people found in sin. This was actually a good portion in understanding a little about what happened to the Israelites when they were in exile. [...]
We had a quick reading in Ezra 8. It continues with Ezra recruiting a group of people to return with him to Jerusalem. Ezra 7:28 Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, I took courage and gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. It was repeated throughout chapter [...]
We had an hour and a half online session yesterday listening to and discussing chapter 1 of Sonship by Jack Miller. Just read a review of it by Van Dixhoorn concerning it from WTJ vol.61-2. I’m a little biased since Van Dixhoorn was my professor last semester. Anyways, we looked at sin, grace, Christ, adoption, [...]
We continued reading through Ezra today. Chapters 4-6 With all building projects, there is opposition. After Cyrus came Xerxes and Artaxerxes. The enemies of the Jews brought reasons to stop the building of the temple. It is a reminder that even though you are doing God’s work, there will always be people opposed to it. [...]