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Thank you everyone who read along with me this past year. I hope your journey through the whole Bible brought you many new insights and perhaps opened your eyes to things you had missed before. Whether it is something you do every year or maybe with a longer schedule, I hope you will continue toContinue reading “January 1: Planning for a new year”

As we come to the end of both the Old and the New Testaments in our reading, we see a contrast in the future vision of the authors. Malachi ends his prophecy looking forward to the coming of the Messiah, even if he isn’t sure how all the details fit together. John looks back atContinue reading “December 31: Malachi 1-4; Revelation 22”

As we approach the end of another year, we begin to look forward to the one that is about to begin. I doubt that any of us had any idea of what this past year would be like, as we experienced a global pandemic, frantic attempts to deal with its effects, businesses being closed, jobContinue reading “December 30: Zechariah 13-14; Revelation 21”

One of the challenges in interpreting prophecies about Jesus’ coming is determining whether the prophet is referring to His first coming, His second coming, or both. Many prophecies have already been fulfilled in Jesus’ birth, life, death, and resurrection when He came as the “Word made flesh” two thousand years ago. Many more have notContinue reading “December 29: Zechariah 9-12; Revelation 20”

If you ask Christians what the most important function of a local church is, you might get a few different answers. Many might say evangelism, for the spreading of the gospel and expansion of the kingdom of the Lord is our Great Commission responsibility. Others would focus on ministry, since Jesus told us the wayContinue reading “December 27: Zechariah 5-8; Revelation 19”

When we look at our world today, we see that people have many different motivations in their lives. We prioritize these motivations by what is important to us, with some aspects of our lives getting more attention since they provide us with what we desire most. Psychologists have created a number of scales of needContinue reading “December 26: Zechariah 1-3; Revelation 18”

In the aftermath of a trial, especially one that has had a severe on our lives, it is easy to become so focused on recovering from what has happened to us that we lose sight of the bigger picture. To some extent this is natural; we can’t look at long-term issues until we have theContinue reading “December 25: Habakkuk 1-2; Revelation 17”

There has always been a strain of something called universalism in Christianity. This is a belief that since God is a God of love and since Jesus died for the sins of all that in the end everyone will be saved. It operates from a narrow focus on certain attributes of God and on aContinue reading “December 24: Zephaniah 1-3; Revelation 16”

One of the hardest questions we must face as Christians is how we remain faithful to Jesus when our lives are in disarray. We want to hang on to our faith, but as the challenges rise and our life becomes more difficult it becomes easier to question what we believe. This is especially true whenContinue reading “December 23: Habakkuk 1-3; Revelation 15”

Good news can be hard to come by in some situations. I think many people would have had a hard time coming up with good news in some of the circumstances they went through this past year. Even now many are struggling with health, finances, job, and family, and it may not seem that thereContinue reading “December 22: Nahum 1-3; Revelation 14”