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Psalm Sunday Temple Monday _________________________ 1. Tuesday morning begins with the realization that the fig tree had withered. But the ...

Our journey through Passion Week continues from yesterday. 1. In Mark, it is on Monday that Jesus takes action in the temple. On Sunday, he...

Today is Palm Sunday. I'm going to try to do daily posts this week on Passion Week in Mark. As an aside, last year I actually published ...

Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, so I will be turning my attention to Passion Week in the Gospel of Mark. But I wanted to mention some passages in J...

... continued from yesterday . 8. When we first encounter someone who thinks or behaves differently from us, we can have varied reactions. T...

1. Have you ever been caught off guard by a question that has never occurred to you? "Why is it wrong to eat cat meat?" Children a...

I have been working to figure out the most likely historical order of the chapters of Jeremiah. For example, the chapters relating to Jehoia...

Mark 1:1-13 Mark 1:14-15  Mark 1:16-45 ___________ 1. The chapter divisions of the Bible were added over a thousand years after these scroll...

[I see this is not the right chapter to do next, but I will leave it.] 1. In this fascinating chapter, Jeremiah gives us a moral snapshot of...

1. Going in chronological order, Jeremiah 36 clearly dates like Jeremiah 25 to the year 605BC during the reign of Jehoiakim (36:1). [1] Jere...

1. The ordering of the text of Jeremiah is a puzzle. On the one hand, there is the chronological order. We are jumping to Jeremiah 25 becaus...

My readings in Jeremiah for Lent continue. ________________ 1. Jeremiah's prophecies during the reign of Jehoiakim (609-598BC) continue....

Mark 1:1-13 Mark 1:14-15  ___________ 1. The clear impression we get from Mark 1:14 is that Jesus did not commence his earthly ministry unti...

Earlier chapter posts are now at the bottom.  There were always going to be more chapters of Jeremiah than days in Lent, and I have been qui...