Reading: Matthew 5-6, Psalm 83 I worked at a major retailer for many years. In that time frame, it became popular to package certain large soft items in clear plastic zippered bags that make one think that the product was put in them by normal humans. I am convinced that
Reading: Matthew 3-4, Psalm 82 We begin Matthew’s account of Jesus’ active ministry today, and while the passages are pretty brief, there is a huge amount going on. The New Testament writers were writing in a time and place when wordiness couldn’t be a primary value for authors- writing was
Reading: Matthew 1-2, Psalm 81 Hey, it’s the New Testament! Now the story will really pick up with some good old fashioned genealogy. Wait, not what you were looking forward to? Oh, but it is so good! If you thought the genealogies in the Old Testament were good (I know.
Reading: 2 Chronicles 35-36, Psalm 80 Hey, we reached the end of the Old Testament! When I was a young adult starting to read the Bible the “One Year Bible” reading plan was popular. This broke the Old and New Testaments into bits and organized them into daily readings. While
Reading: 2 Chronicles 28-31, Psalm 78 We are nearing the closing chapters of the Hebrew Scriptures, and I hope that those of you who have read this far are beginning to see the pattern of events that the Story is built around. Humans choose to define good and bad for
Reading: 2 Chronicles 25-27, Psalm 77 Today we read about three generations of the kings of Judah, all of whom are considered “good” in the history of the house of David. In the book of Chronicles there are two long stretches of good kings. The first was the reigns of
Reading: 2 Chronicles 21-24, Psalm 76 There are some stories that get repeated over and over, especially in well intention intended children’s entertainment media. One of these is the story of the “little white lie.” I think think of at least three television shows I watched when I was grade
Reading: 2 Chronicles 18-20, Psalm 75 Do you remember the assortment of events at which you would receive candy as a child? Harvest parties, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc. There was always the candy I was really hoping to get (pretty much anything involving peanut butter), and the ones I really
Reading: 2 Chronicles 13-17, Psalm 74 Today we begin an unfortunate spiral of initial obedience followed by mistrust and disobedience from the kings of Judah. Now the Chronicler sounds a lot more like the author of Kings. There is just no way to really clean up the behavior of the