Afterwords -- week 49

November 26, 2022

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1) “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” (T. S. Eliot)...

Afterwords -- week 48

November 19, 2022

"Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!"...

Afterwords -- week 47

November 12, 2022

"Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by...

Afterwords -- week 46

November 5, 2022

"But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations... Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet...

Afterwords -- week 45

October 29, 2022

October 29, 2022 Dear friends, I don't normally like my picture being taken. But I'm okay with the photo above, taken by my wife (furtively) on a recent hike...

Afterwords -- week 44

October 22, 2022

"...let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy..." (Psalm 96:12) "...he died for all, that those who live...

Afterwords -- week 43

October 15, 2022

"Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from...

Afterwords -- week 42

October 8, 2022

"The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, 'The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and...

Afterwords -- week 41

October 1, 2022

"Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her." (Matthew 26:13) October...

Afterwords -- week 40

September 24, 2022

"Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?" (Psalm 85:6) September 24, 2022 Dear friends, What does it mean for the Christian to be...

Afterwords -- week 39

September 17, 2022

"Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what...

Afterwords -- week 38

September 10, 2022

"But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God." (John 3:21) September 10,...

Afterwords -- week 37

September 3, 2022

"Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever. Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of...

Afterwords -- week 36

August 27, 2022

"So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come." (Psalm...

Afterwords -- week 35

August 20, 2022

"Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life." (Proverbs 4:23) “The heart of man is his worst part before it be regenerate, and...

Afterwords -- week 34

August 13, 2022

August 13, 2022 Dear friends, In a blog post yesterday on Psalm 65 I wrote about how the redemption which Christ accomplished would also bring about the...

Afterwords -- week 33

August 6, 2022

"He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours...

Afterwords -- week 32

July 30, 2022

"Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy." (Psalm 61:2-3) July 30, 2022 Dear friends, In...

Afterwords -- week 31

July 23, 2022

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up...

Afterwords -- week 30

July 16, 2022

July 16, 2022 Dear friends, Martin Luther wrote to his barber in 1535, giving him a few simple guidelines for prayer. This was later published as "A Simple...

Afterwords -- week 29

July 9, 2022

"But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever." (Psalm 52:8 ESV) July 9, 2022 Dear friends,...

Afterwords -- week 28

July 2, 2022

"...let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the...

Afterwords -- week 26

June 18, 2022

"Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD." (Psalm 36:6 ESV) June 18, 2022...

Afterwords -- week 25

June 11, 2022

"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." (2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV) June 11, 2022 Dear...

Afterwords -- week 24

June 5, 2022

"You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at...

Afterwords -- week 23

May 28, 2022

"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from...

Afterwords -- week 22

May 21, 2022

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John...

Afterwords -- week 21

May 14, 2022

"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to...

Afterwords -- week 20

May 7, 2022

"This hope does not disappoint, because God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Rom 5:5 CSB) "If we...

Afterwords -- week 19 edit

May 1, 2022

CORRECTION (RECENT ARTICLES). It was pointed out to me that I had the wrong title (or wrong link) to the Alan Jacobs article. There were in fact two articles...

Afterwords -- week 19

April 30, 2022

"Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all." (Colossians 3:11 ESV)...

Afterwords -- week 18

April 23, 2022

"And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings...

Afterwords -- week 17 (Easter)

April 16, 2022

"The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the LORD has...

Afterwords -- week 16

April 9, 2022

"...his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in...

Afterwords -- week 15

April 2, 2022

"...that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's...

Afterwords -- week 14

March 26, 2022

"See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and...

Afterwords -- week 13

March 19, 2022

"Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught,...

Afterwords -- week 12

March 12, 2022

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,...

Afterwords -- week 11

March 5, 2022

"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these." (Luke...

Afterwords -- week 10

March 1, 2022

“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea." (Habakkuk 2:14) =========== March 1, 2022 Dear...

Afterwords -- week 9

February 21, 2022

“May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works..." (Psalm 104:31 ESV) =========== February 21, 2022 Dear friends, this is a...

Afterwords -- week 8

February 13, 2022

"Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the...

Afterwords -- week 6

February 6, 2022

"Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. Likewise you also should...

Afterwords -- week 5

January 31, 2022

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be...

Afterwords -- week 4

January 25, 2022

"...it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body,...

Afterwords -- week 3

January 17, 2022

"I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel...

Afterwords -- week 2

January 11, 2022

"And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness." (Genesis 1:4 ESV) =========== In my amateur picture-taking I'm often...

Week #1

January 4, 2022

"To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever...

Afterwords

January 3, 2022

"His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." (2 Peter...

bible reading dec 29-31

December 28, 2021

Bible reading for December 29 -- 31 Dec 29 -- Malachi 2 and John 19 Dec 30 -- Malachi 3 and John 20 Dec 31 -- Malachi 4 and John 21 ================ "But for...