Posts with the category “daily-reading”

Daily Scripture & QuestionsRomans 12-14 Chapters 12f are connected to the teachings of chapters 1-11 by the word therefore.  How are we transformed?  How are we to think about ourselves?  How are we t...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsRomans 9-11 These chapters address God's righteousness and faithfulness to the promises He made both to the Jews and to the Gentiles.  Chapter nine addresses God's sovereign...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsRomans 8 This chapter is so hope-filled and encouraging that you are challenged to read it slowly and even read it twice today.  Why is there no condemnation for those who a...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsRomans 6-7 The apostle wrestles with the false implications of what some might suggest come out of the gospel truths that he has presented so far.  Wouldn't the gospel of gr...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsRomans 4-5 Paul uses Abraham as a case study to show that it has always been true that people are justified (declared righteous before God) by faith and not works.  Looking ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 20:1-3; Romans 1-3 During Paul's three-month layover in Corinth (in Greece), he wrote the letter to the Romans.  At the end of that letter, he explains his plans to bri...  Read More

Preparing for today's message: FENDING OFF KILLER LIES WITH FAITHFULNESSRead: Malachi 2:10-16Biblical Prayer Focus:Psalm 3:7  Arise, O LORD!  Save me, O my God!  For you strike all my enemies on the c...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsII Corinthians 10-13 In this next major section, Paul appeals to the rebellious minority who still reject his gospel and authority.  Paul is willing to be bold, but he would...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsII Corinthians 7:2-9:15 Paul, now again, asks that the church make room in their hearts for him, expressing his deep love and confidence in them as a whole (though some stil...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsII Corinthians 4-7:1 Paul did not tamper with God's word, but faithfully proclaimed Jesus.  Why doesn't Paul lose heart (4:16)?  Paul describes his body as a tent, and the r...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsII Corinthians 1-3 After a painful visit and then a tearful letter (see 2:1-4; 7:8-16; 11:4) dealing with the rebellion stirred up by Paul's enemies from the east, the apost...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Corinthians 12-14 These three chapters deal with spiritual gifts: first generally and then specifically, prophecy and tongues.  Why are spiritual gifts given to believers ...  Read More

Preparing for Today's Message: FENDING OFF KILLER LIES WITH PURITYRead: I Corinthians 6:13-20 Psalm 54:1-3  O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.  O God, hear my prayer; give ea...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Corinthians 9-11 Paul defends his apostleship and then shares that he gives up his rights in order to advance the gospel.  What are some of the rights that he gave up?  In...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Corinthians 7-8 "Now concerning" introduces Paul's responses to a number of issues the Corinthians wrote about to him, in addition to an oral report Chloe's people had bro...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Corinthians 4-6 Paul points to the arrogance of the Corinthian church a number of times.  In chapter four, contrast the way they saw themselves and how the apostles were v...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Corinthians 1-3 Near the end of his three-year ministry in Ephesus, Paul writes to the Corinthian church.  He addresses behavioral issues and theological confusion.  Paul ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 18:19-19:41 These verses present the end of the second and the beginning of the third missionary journey of the apostle Paul.  Several inadequate understandings of the ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsII Thessalonians 1-3 This second letter to the Thessalonians is probably written shortly after the first, when Paul had received an update of what was happening back in Thes...  Read More

Preparing for today's message: FENDING OFF KILLER LIES WITH INTEGRITYRead: Psalm 101Biblical Prayer Focus:1 Peter 3:10-12  For Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue f...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Thessalonians 4-5 Write a title for the following paragraphs: 4:1-8, 9-12, 13-18; 5:1-11.  How do these words encourage and build us up (see 4:18, 5:11)?  Chapter 5 verses...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsI Thessalonians 1-3 After preaching three Sabbaths, several people believed (Acts 17:4).  Paul then seems to have spent time ministering to the Gentiles.  Having to leave th...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 17:1-18:17   What were the different reactions to the gospel in Thessalonica and in Berea?  Note how Paul's presentation of the gospel in Athens (at the Areopagus/Mars ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsGalatians 4-6 Paul continues showing us that we are not justified by keeping laws – we are like children of the free woman, not of the slave woman.  Christ has freed us from...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsGalatians 1-3 Why does Paul defend his appointment as an apostle and his receiving of the Gospel directly from Jesus Christ?  What is the crisis that is taking place in the ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 15-16 The Jerusalem Council dealt with the question of what ceremonial provisions of the Old Testament the new Gentile believers should follow.  The conclusion presente...  Read More

Preparing for today's message: FOLLOW ME!!!Read John 21Biblical Prayer Focus:Psalm 94:18-19  When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, helps me up. When the cares of my heart are m...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsJames 3:13-5:20 What are the key markers of earthly, unspiritual wisdom?  How is peace related to wisdom from above?  To whom does God give more grace?  How does humility im...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsJames 1:1-3:1 James, the half-brother of Jesus, came to faith in Christ only after the resurrection.  He went on to be a key leader in the church of Jerusalem.  His letter i...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 13-14 These chapters are the account of Saul/Paul's first missionary journey.  Now that Paul is working among the Gentiles, it makes sense that he would use his Gentile...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 11-12 As Peter retells what happened in Caesarea, what does he make clear?  How wonderful it is that God has "granted repentance that leads to life" even to the Gentile...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 9-10 Why were the believers afraid or skeptical of Saul's conversion?  Saul (whose Greek name would have been Paul) was powerfully used to prove that Jesus was the Chri...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 6:8-8:40 Today we read of the accounts of two of the deacons, Stephen and Philip. Contrast the way that Stephen is described in this passage with the way he describes t...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 4:1-6:7 Twice in this passage the apostles are threatened.  What is their response; who will they obey?  Do their prayers reflect the way that you pray (4:29-30)?  Two ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsActs 1-3 Luke's second book, Acts, records the early history of the church.  Why did the disciples need to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit? What would He help them to ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsLuke 24; John 20-21 Why did Jesus confront the disciples on the road to Damascus for being "slow of heart to believe"?  What did Jesus do to prove that He was risen from the...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsMatthew 28; Mark 16 If the disciples had actually stolen the body of Jesus and made up the resurrection, how would that explain their change from being cowards to being the ...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsLuke 23; John 18-19 Each account of Jesus' trial and crucifixion adds more details to our understanding of what happened.  What are new facts that you have picked up on in t...  Read More

Daily Scripture & QuestionsMatthew 27; Mark 15 We know that the death of Christ was God's plan, but there is still responsibility among those who killed Him.  Based on these chapters, who should be he...  Read More

Preparing for today's message: The Call of the CrossRead: John 19:16b-42Biblical Prayer Focus:1 Thessalonians 5:23-24  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spir...  Read More