Salvation

Ryan Corcoran on February 10th, 2010

Numbers 20-21, 33:1-49 Ryan: There are pluses and minuses to reading supplemental material in addition to the Bible. I’m thinking specifically of historical fiction novels in the vein of Francine Rivers’ Sons of Encouragement series and Lineage of Grace series. When we read today the one sentence devoted to the death of Miriam (20:1), and the one [...]

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Ryan Corcoran on February 6th, 2010

Numbers 3:14-39, 4:1-49, 3:40-51 Ryan: Reading Francine River’s book, The Priest, which is a historical fiction book based on the life of Aaron, it was very interesting to read how God trained the Levites to setup and tear down the tabernacle at moment’s notice. As soon as the cloud lifted or the pillar of fire moved, [...]

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Continue reading about Day 37: Levites’ division of labor

Ryan Corcoran on February 2nd, 2010

Exodus 39:2-40:35 Ryan: It says in Exodus 40:16 that “Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.” It then walks through the entire set up of the tabernacle for the first time, and after every major step, it says that Moses had done it “as the Lord commanded him.” In only these two chapters [...]

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Continue reading about Day 33: Tabernacle completed

Ryan Corcoran on January 30th, 2010

Exodus 29:1-31:18 Ryan: Again, today’s reading is filled with many details that do not have a ton of relevance to modern Christians, but a good understanding of the laws of the Israelites is invaluable in coming into a deeper relationship with God. For example, in the section regarding the bronze wash basin (30:17-21), God said [...]

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Continue reading about Day 30: Incense, Oil & Water

Ryan Corcoran on January 10th, 2009

I apologize for the great delay since the last post. Also, if you’ve visited the site recently, it probably looked a little odd. Our host, Godaddy.com, decided to change our IP address of our shared hosting account, which disturbed the location of our images repository. I’m sorry for the ugly look of the site. I [...]

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Continue reading about Missed me?

Ryan Corcoran on December 17th, 2007

Truth & Testimony The first part of this passage is a continuation of John’s discourse on how obedience to God saves. The last passage ended with the famous verse, “For God so loved the world that he save his one and only son…” which mentioned that whoever believed in the son “is not condemned” (v. [...]

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Continue reading about John 3:19-36

Ryan Corcoran on November 19th, 2007

For God so loved the world… A Pharisee named Nicodemus came to Jesus at night with a question. More than likely, he was coming during the night because he had a genuine interest in what Jesus had to say, while others of the Sanhedrin were already rejecting Jesus as being a blasphemer. Nicodemus, however, acknowledged [...]

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