Hebrews 1:1-7 A full day, a long delay in getting to my post… Today we begin Hebrews; we’ll spend the rest of the month – and then some – in this book. Unlike all the other epistles, the author of Hebrews is unknown. There are arguments for and against Paul, Barnabas, Silas, and Apollos, with …
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November 6 / II Peter 3:10-18
II Peter 3:10-18 After talking about the end times, Peter asks the question: …what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness…? (v. 11b) End times or not, we can ask ourselves that question, what sort of people are we? How do others – the world – see us? I …
November 5 / II Peter 3:1-9
II Peter 3:1-9 Clarification on the following verses: …scoffers … will say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” (vv. 3-4) Essentially the scoffers (false leaders/teachers) are saying that, since the world has not changed since …
November 4 / II Peter 2:12-22
II Peter 2:12-22 Carol will attest to the fact that I have trouble with pronouns. I’m consistently asking her which “him” or “her” she is referring to. So I had to ask myself in today’s reading, who are the “they”, “them”, and “these” to whom Peter is referring? And as I read and re-read today’s …
November 3 / II Peter 2:1-11
II Peter 2:1-11 Unbelievable! Of our 11 (or 10, if you prefer) verses today, six and one-half of those verses (vv. 4-10a) are all one sentence!! Peter truly writes differently from Paul! Much of what we have in today’s reading we also saw in Jude. Biblical scholars presume that Peter copied from Jude, or Jude …
November 2 / II Peter 1:12-21
II Peter 1:12-21 …I know that the putting off of my body will be soon … And I make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things. (vv. 14-15) Peter here is speaking of his death and his intention to continue to remind his audience …
November 1 / II Peter 1:1-11
II Peter 1:1-11 Back to Peter, this time his second letter. Just in reading him again after a three-day break with Jude, I often find it difficult to figure out what he is saying. Part of my comprehension problem is his long (to my mind, convoluted) sentences. His first “content” sentence takes two long verses: …
November 2020 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Nov II Peter 1:1-11 11 02-Nov II Peter 1:12-21 10 03-Nov II Peter 2:1-11 11 04-Nov II Peter 2:12-22 11 05-Nov II Peter 3:1-9 9 06-Nov II Peter 3:10-18 9 07-Nov Hebrews 1:1-7 7 08-Nov Hebrews 1:8-14 7 09-Nov Hebrews 2:1-8 8 10-Nov Hebrews 2:9-13 5 11-Nov Hebrews 2:14-18 5 12-Nov Hebrews …
October 31 / Jude 17-25
Jude 17-25 Finishing Jude today… And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. (vv. 22-23) Jude is listing three groups of people here. My take – the first group is new Christians or …
October 30 / Jude 8-16
Jude 8-16 We’ve been reading Paul for so long that Peter seemed quite a change and Jude even more so! For example, Jude has two non-Biblical citations in today’s reading: But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses… (v. 9a) and It was also about these that …