through the Bible in ... some odd days

Day 5 - Exodus 8 to 18
Day 6 - Exodus 19 to 23
Day 7 - Exodus 24 to 32
Day 8 - Exodus 33 to 40
Day 9 - Leviticus 1 to 7
Day 10 - Skipped
Day 11 - Leviticus 8 to 16

We had a few light days there, and skipped one.  Part of the challenge was the Ladies Bible Study that started last Thursday in our home and the regular stuff of life that is bogging us down.  Hopefully we will be able to get caught back up this week.

Anybody else want to take up this challenge?

The Bible in 90 Days (day 3 and day 4)

Day 3 we read Genesis 31 to 46.

Day 4 we read Genesis 47 to Exodus 7.

All I have to say is, the Bible is an amazing book with some amazing stories.  It doesn't picture the people we would consider to be the "saints of old" in a pretty light, but they are definitely portrayed in the light.  Their deeds are not hidden to make them out to be anything but normal.  It gives me hope and reminds me that it is truly by faith and not by works that we are justified!

Bible in 90 days (day two)

Day two passage: Genesis 15-30

Last night's reading took a little over an hour.  I think that we paused in the middle for something, but that still isn't all that long.

In last night's reading my wife pointed out something interesting.  We were reading in chapter 17 and just finished this passage:

And God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.  I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her.  I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."   

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old?  Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"  And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"   

God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.  I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.  As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly.  He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.  But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."

At this point my wife interrupted and made an interesting observation.  She said something like, "How is it that when other people, like Moses, see God, they are trembling and falling on their face in fear, but here Abraham has the audacity to laugh after God makes this pronouncement.  He fell on his face and laughed.

Interesting.

My first observation was that it doesn't seem that Abraham is actually laughing at God, it is more at the thought of these two old people having a baby.  He finds it to be exceptionally funny.  Second, I noticed that God doesn't reprimand Abraham for laughing.  Did God laugh with him?  I don't know, it doesn't say.  Notice that Abraham simply goes on to try to recommend Ishmael, as in, "You don't have to do that, Ishmael is already born, he's a good kid, just let it be him!"   But God says, "No, that isn't what I am going to do."

I don't have any great, insightful applications of this passage.  I just found it interesting.  It gave me a snapshot of God; of how He interacted with this man Abraham.

The Bible in 90 Days?!?

The other day I ran across a blog titled My Brain Doodles.  The author of this blog was talking about reading through the Bible in 90 days.  I thought, "Wow, that sounds interesting."  The thought stuck with me throughout the day, so I told my wife about it when I got home.

She thought it sounded interesting too, so last night we started reading through the Bible in 90 days.  (I am going public with this little announcement because it adds to the accountability, right?  I mean, if I post this to my blog won't it give me the extra energies to undertake such a challenge?)  We read through the first 14 chapters of Genesis last night, I read seven and she read seven.  My youngest son sat with us through the majority of the reading.  It took approximately 50 minutes to accomplish this task, and I felt like it was a much better spent 50 minutes than the TV series on DVD viewing that I originally had planned.

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This morning, when I decided to post something on my blog about this little challenge, I went searching for that blog that I ran across.  Once I found it, I realized that this person was talking about this challenge as if it was something official.  Sure enough, I searched for it, found the website.  Through the Bible in 90 days is a special Bible and a curriculum.   They also have a leader's kit and several other resources to assist small groups.  I am still doing a little research, but I am wondering if this might make an awesome summer event for our church (or anyone else in our little community that might be interested).

I will try to let you know what I learn and how it goes.  If anyone else has done this, let me know what you thought.