THE BIBLE DIARY

2 Kings 8:1-9:13

Acts 16:16-40

Psalm 143:1-12

Proverbs 17:26

Reading about Elisha and the acts of the apostles I am amazed at how convinced they are that God will act. 

I think most Christians I know pray "if it's Your will God" as though they have no inclination as to what...

1 Kings 11:1-12:19

Acts 9:1-25

Psalm 131:1-3

Proverbs 17:4-5

Nothing is impossible! 

Ananias got a HUGE lesson in that in this little remarkable chapter of Acts. Saul was the guy everyone told Ananias to avoid, the guy everyone worried about...he was not the guy anyone was...

2 Samuel 22:1-23:23

Acts 2:1-47

Psalm 122:1-9

Proverbs 16:19-20

Wow! How long has it been without Jesus? The disciples sit...pray...wait and then all of a sudden the Holy Spirit rushes in and does THE most unexpected to accomplish exactly what Jesus told the disciples to e...

2 Samuel 19:11-20:13

John 21:1-25

Psalm 120:1-7

Proverbs 16:16-17

In this last passage of John Jesus stands on the shore, calls out to the tired disciples as they fish fruitlessly "try the other side of the boat!"

"Okay, stranger, sure."

The nets overflow with the number of...

1 Samuel 5:1-7:17

John 6:1-21

Psalm 106:13-31

Proverbs 14:32-33

When Jesus feeds the 5,000 with only 5 loaves of bread and 2 small fish. 

There's a lot of crazy miracles that Jesus performs and this is not the least of them. And the lesson it teaches the disciples is insane...

Deuteronomy 28:1-68

Luke 11:14-36

Psalm 77:1-20

Proverbs 12:18

Psalm 77:13-14

"Your ways, God, are holy.

What god is as great as our God?

You are the God who performs miracles."

You are the God who in fact performs miracles. 

Luke 11:33

"No one lights a lamps and puts it in a pl...

Leviticus 20:22-22:16

Mark 9:1-29

Psalm 43:1-5

Proverbs 10:18

Yesterday I talked about how cool it was that God kept saying "I'm the Lord your God" at the end of different rules like He was answering the unspoken "but why?" But today as I read I thought about how obvious t...

Leviticus 11:1-12:8

Mark 5:21-43

Psalm 38:1-22

Proverbs 10:8-9

Yep, the Bible talks about periods. And while I'm not afraid of that topic, obviously, I did find it rather unsettling today. 

I had to pause in the reading when I finished Leviticus today. I already found it co...

Exodus 2:11-3:22

Matthew 17:10-27

Psalm 22:1-18

Proverbs 5:7-14

It's late, I'm tired...but just like yesterday, I'm reminded in today's reading that nothing is impossible. 

"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move...

Genesis 50:1-Exodus 2:10

Matthew 16:13-17:9

Psalm 21:1-13

Proverbs 5:1-6

Today I did half the reading on my lunch break at work...on the dirty table at the back of the kitchen with a cup of coffee feeding my headache...and I was encouraged.

Then I did the other half of my r...