Discipleship
Psalm 120-121, Psalm 140, Psalm 143-144 Ryan: Psalm 144 ends with, “Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.” The Jews have a strong tradition in issuing blessings. In Fiddler on the Roof, when someone asks the rabbi if there is a blessing for a sewing [...]
Psalm 61-62, Psalm 64, Psalm 69 Ryan: I am very curious about how old David was when he wrote most of these songs and poems. I remember being a teenager, filled with angst, and coming up with poetry that I couldn’t even dream of today. Your emotions are at such at heightened state at that [...]
Continue reading about Day 112: “I will praise God’s name in song”
Psalm 13, Psalm 17, Psalm 23, Psalm 26, Psalm 28, Psalm 31 Ryan: I doubt there’s anything that can be said about Psalm 23 (“The LORD is my shepherd…”) that hasn’t been said already, so I don’t think my adding one more paragraph will help. Instead, I’d like to pull one verse out of today’s [...]
1 Chron. 23, 1 Chron. 24:1-19, 1 Chron. 25, 1 Chron. 26:1-11 Ryan: Yet another “job-that-we-could-do-without-if-we-followed-the-Bible”: career counselors. Most of what we read today was simply a list of who was going to do what job. And how did they decide who was going to do which job? They cast lots. How would you have [...]
2 Sam. 19:5-43, 2 Sam 20 Ryan: So here’s a weird-but-true coincidence in a modern day connection to today’s daily Bible reading: in today’s Wichita Eagle there was an article reporting that an Olathe man who had cursed a police officer with expletives and giving him “the finger” had won a lawsuit to repeal a disorderly conduct [...]
2 Sam. 6:12a, 1 Chron. 15:1-29 (2 Sam. 6:12-19), 1 Chron. 16:1-36, Psa. 105, Psa. 96 Ryan: Another first we read about today! While I’m sure they’ve already had them in the past, during today’s reading, we learn about the first song leader mentioned in the Bible. Of course, we had also had the lead [...]
2 Samuel 2:1-10, 2 Sam. 2:12-32, 2 Sam. 3:1-39 (1 Chron. 3:1-4), 2 Sam. 4:1-3, 2 Sam. 4:5-12, 1 Chron. 11:1-3 (2 Sam. 5:1-3), 2 Sam. 5:4-5 (2 Sam. 2:11, 1 Kings 2:11, 1 Chron. 3:4b, 1 Chron. 29:26-27), 1 Chron. 12:23-40 Ryan: Now, we all know that the Israelites had a way of being [...]
Continue reading about Day 96: It’s like déjà vu, all over again.
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