Archive for July 2018

July 31, 2018 DAILY READING 2 Samuel 11:22-27This weekend’s reading: Matthew 6:25-33 FIELD NOTES David is often lauded as one of God’s greatest followers in the Old Testament, but his life is not without major mistakes.  In the passage in 2 Samuel today, David is responsible for trying to cover up an affair by having…

July 30, 2018 DAILY READING Psalm 111This weekend’s reading: Matthew 6:25-33 FIELD NOTES It’s about this time of the summer that my mind and spirit need to offer a great praise to God in Thanksgiving for the summer.  The grass is a bit crunchy from the heat, the weeds have overtaken the flower beds and…

July 28, 2018 DAILY READING Luke 14:12-14Psalm 116:1-4This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES Jesus is invited to dinner at a prominent Pharisee’s home.  He immediately begins confronting their hypocritical and ineffective theology.  They say nothing when he heals on the Sabbath.  They say nothing when he poses a moral question.  When he notices the…

July 27, 2018 DAILY READING 1 Peter 1:13-16Psalm 116:1-4This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES The writer here implores us to put to death our sinful desires.  Our earthly nature, as he puts it, consists of our greed, lust, envy, anger, malice, etc.  We are instead, to be Holy.  How often do you find your…

July 26, 2018 DAILY READING 1 Peter 1:8-12Psalm 116:1-4This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES Here in 1 Peter, we see that even the angels are seeking a deep relationship with God.  We seek and seek, and sometimes we seem to find ourselves where we want to be.  Often times, we fall short, due to…

July 25, 2018 DAILY READING Matthew 12:38-42Psalm 114This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES In Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense, scholar N.T. Wright says this: “Jesus is, at the moment, present with us, but hidden behind that invisible veil which keeps heaven and earth apart, and which we pierce in those moments, such as prayer,…

July 24, 2018 DAILY READING 1 Corinthians 15:19-28Psalm 114This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES John Wesley, in his sermon, The Repentance of Believers, says this: “Continue to believe in him that loved thee and gave himself for thee, that bore all thy sins in his own body on the tree; and he saveth thee from…

July 23, 2018 DAILY READING 1 Corinthians 15:12-20Psalm 114This weekend’s reading: Romans 3:20-24 FIELD NOTES Paul implores us that the resurrection is real.  If it weren’t real he says, what is the point?  What is the point of church?  Of Bible study?  All of this that we call Christianity, what is the point if the resurrection didn’t happen? We have…