Friday, January 29, 2010

Readings For The Weekend!

Here are the daily Bible readings for the weekend.  Click on the "comments" link below the post to leave a comment.  You do not need to have an account to reply to this post.  Let us know your thoughts and insights into the readings, and we can have a conversation here!  Looking forward to it. 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th:

Old Testament Reading:
Job 11; Job 12; Job 13; Job 14
New Testament Reading:  Matthew 20:1-19
Psalms Reading:  Psalm 17:6-12

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30th:

Old Testament Reading:
  Job 15; Job 16; Job 17; Job 18
New Testament Reading:  Matthew 20:20-34
Psalms Reading:  Psalm 17:13-15

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31st:

Old Testament Reading:
  Job 19; Job 20; Job 21
New Testament Reading:  Matthew 21:1-17
Psalms Reading:  Psalm 18:1-6

Thursday, January 28, 2010

January 28th Reading...

Old Testament Reading:  Job 8; Job 9; Job 10

New Testament Reading:  Matthew 19:16-30

Proverbs Reading:  Proverbs 3:11-20

Read, then comment by clicking "comment" under this post!  Hope there is someone out there doing this with me! 

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

January 27th Reading...

Here is today's reading. 

Old Testament ReadingJob 4; Job 5; Job 6; Job 7 NIV

New Testament Reading:  Matthew 19:1-15 NIV

Psalms Reading Psalm 17:1-5 NIV

-Nathan

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Book of Job starts today!!!

HEYYYYYY-O! I made it so that anyone can post WITHOUT having to make a profile.  Just tell us your name please!!!  Today's readings are:

Old Testament Reading  Job 1; Job 2; Job 3 NIV
New Testament Reading  Matthew 18:10-35 NIV
Psalms Reading  Psalm 16:1-11 NIV

Read them, then post your thoughts (unless you have no thoughts). [I'm sure you do.] HOW FUN IS THIS???  We're starting the book of Job today. That is always interesting. Job is thought to be one of the older known manuscripts in the OT. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job

and here...


Job

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press.

Job , book of the Bible. The book is of unknown authorship and date, although many scholars assign it to a time between 600 BC and 400 BC A lament in narrative form, the subject is the problem of good and evil in the world: "Why do the just suffer and the wicked flourish?" In the prose prologue Satan obtains God's permission to test the unsuspecting Job, whom God regards as "a perfect and an upright man" ; accordingly, all that Job has is destroyed, and he is physically afflicted. The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete. The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he...

Job , book of the Bible. The book is of unknown authorship and date, although many scholars assign it to a time between 600 BC and 400 BC A lament in narrative form, the subject is the problem of good and evil in the world: "Why do the just suffer and the wicked flourish?" In the prose prologue Satan obtains God's permission to test the unsuspecting Job, whom God regards as "a perfect and an upright man" ; accordingly, all that Job has is destroyed, and he is physically afflicted. The main part of the book is cast in poetic form and consists of speeches by Job and three friends who come to "comfort" him: Job speaks, then each of the three speaks in turn, with Job replying each time; there are three such cycles of discussion, although the third is incomplete. The friends insist alike that Job cannot really be just, as he claims to be, otherwise he would not be suffering as he is. Nevertheless, Job reiterates his innocence of wrong. The sequence changes with the appearance of a fourth speaker, Elihu, who accuses Job of arrogant pride. He in turn is followed by God himself, who speaks out of a storm to convince Job of his ignorance and rebuke him for his questioning. The prose epilogue tells how God rebukes the three friends for their accusations and how happiness is restored to Job. The author did not intend to solve the paradox of the righteous person's suffering, but rather to criticize a philosophy that located the cause of suffering in some supposed moral failure of the sufferer. The texts are imperfect, and there may be serious losses, misplacements, or even additions to the original. The book contains many eloquent passages; among them are Job's declaration of faith in the "redeemer," his speech on wisdom, and God's discourse on animals. Job is mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.


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