Galatians 2:11-21 One of the all-time Christian memory verses, I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for …
Category Archives: RTB 2020 – Epistles
March 4 / Gal. 2:1-10
Galatians 2:1-10 One quick comment – Paul will frustrate you with his parenthetical expressions (vv. 2, 4, 6, 8; occasionally comments set off by dashes instead of parentheses). These side comments can easily distract you from his main point in the rest of the sentence. So my advice to you is to jump over these …
March 3 / Galatians 1:11-24
Galatians 1:11-24 Paul again defends his apostleship here, in three parts. First, …the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. (vv. 11-12) Here Paul is claiming “divine revelation”, …
March 2 / Galatians 1:1-10
Galations 1:1-10 Epistles…! Here we are! We have arrived. We are more than halfway through Acts and only 1/6 of the way through the year. So the remaining ten months will be mostly readings from the Epistles. Letters from apostles to churches with a bit of history and a lot of theology! It’ll be a …
March 1 / Acts 15:30-35
Acts 15:30-35 Depending on the translation that you are reading, the following verse may be absent: But it seemed good to Silas to remain there. (v. 34) [NOTE: The ESV has it in a footnote.] But it’s a key verse, as we will see in a few weeks when Silas becomes Paul’s missionary companion. “Encouragement” …
March 2020 Readings
Date Reading(s) Verses 01-Mar Acts 15:30-35 6 02-Mar Galatians 1:1-10 10 03-Mar Gal. 1:11-24 14 04-Mar Gal. 2:1-10 10 05-Mar Gal. 2:11-21 11 06-Mar Gal. 3:1-14 14 07-Mar Gal 3:15-29 15 08-Mar Gal. 4:1-11 11 09-Mar Gal. 4:12-20 9 10-Mar Gal. 4:21-31 11 11-Mar Gal. 5:1-15 15 12-Mar Gal. 5:16-26 11 13-Mar Gal. 6:1-10 10 …
February 29 / Acts 15:22-29
Acts 15:22-29 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us… (v. 28). This verse has always struck me positively every time I read it – “…to the Holy Spirit and to us…”. The apostles and elders clearly had the Holy Spirit first in their lives – individually and corporately. And with …
February 28 / Acts 15:6-21
Acts 15:6-21 Four names are mentioned in today’s reading: Peter/Simeon, James, Barnabas and Paul. [Notice that Barnabas is mentioned first here (v. 12); this is common when the two of them are in Jerusalem.] So of these four, Peter had trips to Samaria and Caesarea; Barnabas and Paul went to Cyprus and Asia Minor; and …
February 27 / Acts 15:1-5
Acts 15:1-5 First, a couple of brief geographical items… Paul and Barnabas (and a large contingent of Christians) are based in “Antioch”. This “Antioch” is Syrian Antioch, about 300 miles north of Jerusalem, on the northeast coast of the Mediterranean, as opposed to Pisidian Antioch, which Paul and Barnabas had visited in chapters 13 and …
February 26 / Acts 14:19-28
Acts 14:19-28 It’s so strange that Jews from Antioch would come all the way to Lystra (130 miles) just to harass Paul and Barnabas. Iconium was only 20 miles from Lystra, so some Jews from Antioch had probably followed Paul and Barnabas to Iconium and been part of the rabble that drove them out of …