Chapter 1 ⁽⁵³⁾

The Great Commission included instruction for the Apostles to teach their disciples to obey everything Jesus commanded them. If everything Jesus commanded them had been included in the Gospels, there would be no need for the letters that make up the rest of the New…

Passage Read: Acts 28 - Romans 1 Meditation Verses: Romans 1:28-32 Turning away from God results in all kinds of depravity, not just sexual immorality and perversion, but all kinds of unrighteousness and wickedness and greed and murder and strife and gossip and arrogance and…

Passage Read: Mark 1-2 Meditation Verse: 2:15 Jesus calls Levi (Matthew) to follow Him, and Matthew throws a banquet for Him at his house. He invites his only other friends, other tax collectors. Apparently, they've all been interested in Jesus; they've all wanted to meet…

Passage Read: Malachi 1-4 Meditation Verses: 1:7-10 The governor gets more honor than the Lord. The governor gets nice, healthy animals for his food, but God gets the sickly, the castoffs, the unsellable. Because God can't say anything; He won't do anything. He can't, because…

Passage Read: Haggai 1 - Zechariah 2 Meditation Verses: Haggai 1:2-9 The Lord had brought Israel back from captivity, and they had started to rebuild the temple, but then quit. They turned to build their own houses, to expand them. They found their farming to…