Leviticus 2-3 Dear RTB’ers, STS question #1, “Consider how [the cereal] offering is fulfilled in Christ.” This grain offering was of the finest ingredients – fine flour, with oil and frankincense added, but no leaven or honey. Flour and oil and frankincense make a sweet smell when burned. Yeast is used as a metaphor for …
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January 1 / Leviticus 1
Leviticus 1 Dear RTB’ers, We begin the second year of our three-year journey in Search the Scriptures. I’ll be doing something different this year. It was my plan last year that all of us would read the readings and that you would work the questions in STS while I went off on my own with …
January 2025 Readings
Date Readings Verses 01-Jan Leviticus 1 17 02-Jan Leviticus 2-3 33 03-Jan Leviticus 4:1-6:7 61 04-Jan Leviticus 6:8-7:38 61 05-Jan Leviticus 8 36 06-Jan Leviticus 9-10 44 07-Jan Leviticus 11 47 08-Jan Leviticus 12:1-13:46 54 09-Jan Leviticus 13:47-14:32 45 10-Jan Leviticus 14:33-15:33 58 11-Jan Leviticus 16 34 12-Jan Leviticus 17 16 13-Jan Leviticus 18 30 …
December 31 / Reflections
Reflections Dear RTB’ers, No scheduled reading today. Evidently STS is set for 365 days and February 29 this year claimed one of those days. So today we reflect on 2024. Thus far we’ve read one Gospel (Luke); Acts; nine epistles (I and II Thessalonians, Galatians, Romans, I and II Corinthians, I and II Timothy, and …
December 30 / II Timothy 4
II Timothy 4 Dear RTB’ers, Paul was writing some 2000 years ago, but his words sound like they were written directly for today: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions… (v. 3) [NOTE: The NASB …
December 29 / II Timothy 3
II Timothy 3 Dear RTB’ers, My first-ever RTB group was in 1994 at St. James Episcopal Church in Mt. Airy, Maryland. Like this year we used Search the Scriptures as our study book – except that we did three days at a time instead of one and finished the Bible in one year. And, like …
December 28 / II Timothy 2
II Timothy 2 Dear RTB’ers, I’m sure I’ve shared this before; it’s the first thought on my mind whenever I read today’s chapter. 2 Tim 2:2, a “calling card” for young Campus Crusade for Christ students: … what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will …
December 27 / II Timothy 1
II Timothy 1 Dear RTB’ers, II Timothy – today we begin our last book for 2024, another of Paul’s letters to his “son”, Timothy. It was not difficult for us to see Paul’s motivation in writing to Timothy in his first letter – it was mostly church matters. It’s more difficult to pick that up …
December 26 / Titus 3
Titus 3 Dear RTB’ers, It is fairly rare for us to see the members of the Trinity mentioned in one sentence in the Bible, but here we have it: But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us … in accordance with His mercy, by the washing …
December 25 / Titus 2
Titus 2 Dear RTB’ers, SURPRISE!! Titus 2:11-14 was one of the readings at our St. Andrew’s Christmas Eve service. I love it when our RTB readings show up in our service sheet! Here is that selection: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly …