Faith

Ryan Corcoran on December 30th, 2010

Advice and rebuke; Value of advisors; Discipline; Lawkeeping; Repentance; Righteousness and wickedness; Integrity and perversion; Appropriate consequences Ryan: There are simply too many good thoughts in these Proverbs to pick out just one to talk about (kinda like Lays Potato Chips), so I thought I’d talk about the Proverbs from a global perspective. As you [...]

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Continue reading about Day 138: Receiving Instruction

Ryan Corcoran on May 12th, 2010

1 Kings 2:13-46, 1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 9:16, 1 Kings 3:2-28 (2 Chron. 1:2-13) Ryan: We read today of an event that I have already referenced several times in which Solomon asks for (and is granted) wisdom beyond that of other men (1 Kings 3:12). What I did not remember before reading this story today [...]

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Continue reading about Day 132: A dingo ate your baby!

Ryan Corcoran on May 11th, 2010

1 Kings 1, 2 Samuel 23:1-7, 1 Kings 2:1-10, 1 Chron. 29:28-30, 1 Chron. 29:23-25 (1 Kings 2:12, 2 Chron. 1:1) Ryan: Tomorrow, May 12, is my father’s birthday. (And, now that Mother’s Day has passed, we’re approaching the season for Father’s Day, too.) It’s hard for a son not to think about his father [...]

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Continue reading about Day 131: Solomon rises to the throne

Ryan Corcoran on May 9th, 2010

Psalm 2, Psalm 22, Psalm 27 Ryan: Today marks the beginning of a couple of days of “Messianic psalms.” These are psalms that reference the Messiah, either directly or indirectly. Psalm 22, specifically, is full of “prophecies” that are very plainly seen in the life of Jesus. Let’s recount a few: the opening sentence, “My [...]

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Continue reading about Day 129: Messianic Psalms

Ryan Corcoran on May 8th, 2010

Psalm 111, Psalm 130-131, Psalm 141, Psalm 146 Ryan: As we are  slowly wrapping up the book of Psalms, it is fitting that one of the last psalms we read is Psalm 111, which includes the very famous line, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” The next major character we will [...]

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Continue reading about Day 128: The beginning of wisdom

Psalm 122, Psalm 124, Psalm 133-6, Psalm 138 Ryan: Psalm 136 is a song (or “poem” as the heading in our chronological Bible calls it) that is written in “call-and-response” form. Call and response is one of the oldest forms of music known to man. It involves a leader issuing the “call” and the congregation [...]

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Continue reading about Day 124: Ибо вовек милость Его (His Love Endures Forever)

Ryan Corcoran on May 3rd, 2010

Psalm 119 Ryan: How cool is it that the longest chapter in the entire Bible is all about how wonderful is the word of God? If you search Psalm 119 in the King James Version for “Thy Word,” you’ll learn that the phrase occurs 39 times, or in approximately 22% of all the 176 verses [...]

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Continue reading about Day 123: “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet”