Psalms: 61, 62 Meditation Matthew: Jesus was certainly busy during His last week. First the Sadducees (priests/Levites) who don’t believe in the resurrection – after all there is no mention of resurrection in the Torah (Pentateuch – Genesis - Deuteronomy). Since this was only a test, I question their sincerity. Jesus exposes them (and their …
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Going Deeper: April 26
Read 1 Peter 1:17-23 together. Watch the sermon video (available at pacificunionchurch.org/churchsmall) Listen. What did you hear in the Scripture reading and the sermon? What is God saying to you? What does it mean to be Easter people? What does it look like to live as Easter people? Respond. If God is calling you to live …
Wednesday, June 12
Psalm: 66 Meditation Matthew: Jesus talks about a “wicked and adulterous generation”; not all that much has changed. Now the sign of Jonah, there’s the hope. Jesus may, and undoubtedly was alluding to His own resurrection, but He may also be speaking of the spreading of the gospel. Jonah did not want to go to …
Tuesday, June 11
Psalm: 10 Meditation Ecclesiastes: If you weren’t depressed when you started this reading, it would be understandable if you became so after reading it. The reading strikes me as the opposite approach to affliction than Job. While difficult to accept try to remember that God is still sovereign and that passage through this life is …
Sunday, May 19
Psalm: 47 Meditation Luke: Early in His ministry, Jesus ventures back to His home town of Nazareth (after his encounter with Satan in the wilderness). Delivered the scroll of Isaiah, He turns (i.e., chooses) to read the passage in what we know as chapter 61:1-2. So early on Jesus is sending a message that He …
Saturday, May 18
Psalm: 19 Meditation Exodus: As the book of Exodus closes, Moses describes how he had set up the Tent of Meeting and the placing of all the articles required for worship at that time. Moses was meticulous enough to do everything precisely as God had described; “Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting” (v. …
Friday, May 17
Psalms: 3, 5 Meditation 1 Thessalonians: Driven out of town (Thessalonica & Berea) by his vaunted rhetorical skill, Paul finds himself finally, after Athens, in Corinth. He is quite concerned about the Thessalonians and how they are growing in their faith. Paul’s concern had prompted him to commission Timothy to go back to Thessalonica to …
Thursday, May 16
Psalm: 147 Meditation Matthew: You have heard that old expression “It’s not the gift, it’s the thought that counts”? Well, that is rather like what Jesus is talking about: it’s not the sin, it’s the thought that counts.” We have this notion that God sees sin as we do. I think that the 10 Commandments …
Wednesday, May 15
Psalms: 138, 144 Meditation Exodus: “I will send an angel before you…” (v. 2) It happens several times in the OT that the term “Angel of the LORD” shows up. The problem: is this “angel” a disguise God uses (as in the case of Lot while he was in Sodom, or when Hagar was driven …
Tuesday, May 14
Psalms: 134, 137 Meditation 1 Thessalonians: As I write this, Advent Sunday is fast approaching. But even in this passage there is a sense and a longing generally characterized by Advent. Truth be told, this is the Second Advent just before the Second Coming. This book (letter) spends some time on this theme helping us …
