Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Aug Acts 15:36-16:15 21 02-Aug Acts 16:16-40 25 03-Aug Acts 17:1-15 15 04-Aug Acts 17:16-34 19 05-Aug Acts 18:1-28 28 06-Aug I Thess.1:1-10 10 07-Aug I Thess. 2:1-20 20 08-Aug I Thess. 3:1-13 13 09-Aug I Thess. 4:1-18 18 10-Aug I Thess. 5:1-28 28 11-Aug II Thess. 1:1-12 12 12-Aug II Thess. …
Monthly Archives: July 2021
July 31 / James 5:1-20
James 5:1-20 Come now, you rich, weep and howl… (v. 1a) You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. (v. 5a) Often when I read a New Testament item about the rich I pause and consider the full context, because compared to the rest of the world we in the USA are …
July 30 / James 4:1-17
James 4:1-17 I’m thinking again about the profiteering that James discusses in James 4:13-17. I already discussed entrepreneurship in my second post (below) from last year and I see good in a lot of entrepreneurial activities. But there are some that strike me wrong. Right now I’m thinking of housing developments. We live in the …
July 29 / James 3:1-18
James 3:1-18 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts… (v. 14) and For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist… (v. 16) I wonder what’s going on in James’ world that he would point out jealousy and selfish ambition twice here. Back in Galatians Paul seemed to imply that this was …
July 28 / James 2:1-26
James 2:1-26 James writes that in keeping the Law but failing in one point a person is guilty of the whole Law. He uses an example: If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. (v. 11b) For our 21st-century society that example needs to be flipped: …
July 27 / James 1:1-27
James 1:1-27 Welcome to the Epistle of James! Sin, with a number of verses (seemingly?) reflecting temptations from outside and from inside… First, from outside: Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds… (v. 2) and Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial… (v. 12) [I’m sure brothers …
July 26 / Gal. 6:1-18
Galatians 6:1-18 My daily pattern is to read through two translations and notes and sidebars of our scheduled reading, then to read my comments from last year, then to read a third translation and post new comments. With this pattern it is often the case that in my first readings I do not understand a …
July 25 / Gal. 5:16-26
Galatians 5:16-26 When we did our “Three Streams” series at St. Andrew’s last March during Lent it was Archbishop Foley Beach who spoke on the third “stream”, the Pentecostal/Charismatic stream – the Spirit-filled life. And as he spoke of the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, he was clear in distinguishing the manifestations …
July 24 / Gal. 5:1-15
Galatians 5:1-15 When I read this section last year I was really confused by verse 11. I looked at another translation, and the first paragraph in my comments in the link below helped me to understand what Paul was saying. There are a few other confusions in today’s reading. Please read on. I wish those …
July 23 / Gal. 4:1-31
Galatians 4:1-31 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. (v.3) And: But now that you have come to know God … how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world…? (v. 9) Although it’s confusing, it …