Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 2 Chronicles 18 and Zechariah 3. This devotional is about 2 Chronicles 18. “Counseling should be encouraging” a man said to me years ago. It was his justification for ending weekly sessions of marriage counseling I’d arranged for him and his wife with a Christian […]
2 Chronicles 16, Zechariah 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read 2 Chronicles 16 and Zechariah 1. This devotional is about Zechariah 1. When Zechariah wrote these words (v. 1) there were still 18 years or so to go in Judah’s 70 year exile. The end was not yet in sight but it was closer than the […]
2 Chronicles 8, Habakkuk 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read 2 Chronicles 8, Habakkuk 3. This devotional is about 2 Chronicles 8:11: “Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, ‘My wife must not live in the palace of David king of […]
2 Chronicles 6:2-42, Habakkuk 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read 2 Chronicles 6:2-42 and Habakkuk 1. This devotional is about Habakkuk 1. Habakkuk, a prophet to the Southern Kingdom of Judah, was very upset with the Lord in the first four verses of this chapter. He saw so much sin and violence (v. 3) among […]
Judges 10:1-11:11, Jeremiah 23
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Judges 10:1-11:11 and Jeremiah 23. This devotional is about Judges 10:16b: “And he could bear Israel’s misery no longer.” The book of Judges recorded God’s relationship with Israel in the Promised Land before the era of the kings began. Israel was settled in the promised land, […]
Joshua 24, Jeremiah 13
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 24, Jeremiah 13. This devotional is about Jeremiah 13:1-11. One summer a few years ago I was assembling something in our backyard for my kids. Somehow I left my tools out in the yard. They remained outside in the yard for the entire fall, […]
Joshua 20-21, Jeremiah 10
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 20-21 and Jeremiah 10. This devotional is about Jeremiah 10:23-25. Here we are, ten chapters into the prophecies of Jeremiah and many more chapters to go. And what have we been reading? Condemnation of sin and predictions of judgment, mostly. Chapter 10 here is no […]
Joshua 9, Jeremiah 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 9 and Jeremiah 3. This devotional is about Jeremiah 3:11 (NIV): “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.” In this chapter God compared his people to a wife and their idolatry to adultery. The wife imagery was a better analogy when Israel was […]
Joshua 7, Jeremiah 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 7 and Jeremiah 1. This devotional is about Joshua 7. It really didn’t take very long, did it, before Israel’s great victory over Jericho gave way to a crushing defeat in Ai (vv. 2-5). God’s people lost all the confidence they had gained in Jericho […]
Joshua 6:6-27, Isaiah 66
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | Calvary Bible Church Read Joshua 6:6-27 and Isaiah 66. This devotional is about Isaiah 66:2-4. The book of Isaiah ends with this chapter and it does so with some surprising words. God had commanded his people, through Moses, to offer animal sacrifices as well as grain and incense offerings. So […]