Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the reading.

There is a little hand-painted sign in a candle store, which reads: “A candle begins as a piece of string that is dipped again and again into wax. With each dipping, more and more wax forms about the string, so that in the end, a light may be lit that burns softly and brightly.”

If each day you dip yourself into the Word of the Lord, this soaking in the anointing oil of the Holy Spirit will mean that that the spark I offer here will ignite within you and keep burning.

In this little letter, John is talking in an urgent way to “abide in the doctrine of Christ.” Our lives are plunged into all kinds of energies, subject to being “dipped” and surrounded by what is Antichrist. All the more do you and I need everyday to be soaked in the Word of the Lord—totally surrounded with nothing but Christ, so that nothing but Christ burns in us.

2 John

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Example: Love is walking by Your Word. v. 6

Thursdays are dedicated to the letters of Paul, other letters,
the Book of Acts, and the Book of Revelation.
In the Winter Season of Advent to Epiphany this year we read the Letters of John and Jude.

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Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.

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One thing about David: he feels all the emotions. The personal vengeance that David wants to bring against his enemies is at the level of his feelings; he knows that vengeance is the Lord’s and that God will bring justice to bear.

Actually, that is the point of David’s anger. His deepest emotions have to do with the Lord’s honor and justice violated. In this respect, he is like Jesus. Christ’s anger comes out, not when something personal is done to him, but when his Father’s glory is at stake. Such was Jesus’s anger when he overturned the moneychangers in the Temple. The business of the world was profaning the Temple.

These days, may your anger be full and free when you see God’s glory diminished when one of God’s little ones is being abused. Then we need the energy of anger to address the sin.

Psalm 58

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We continue to follow the Psalms in numerical order.

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Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and Proverbs 4:1-9.

The key to this chapter is the Hebrew musar: “instruction.” The word means “correction, chastisement, rebuke, and warning,” not the kind of physical punishment that parents wrongly inflict on their children. We would say it is what happens when we “learn the hard way”; the pain of our mistakes becomes instruction for change.

Anything less than total surrender to God will bring spiritual distress to you. Take responsibility for your situation, without blaming others or punishing yourself for your sin and mistakes.

Actually, the image of a parent is not the one that Proverbs uses here, but rather of a woman who longs to be loved by a man. A feminine dimension of God’s love is beautifully expressed here. Embrace wisdom.

Proverbs 4

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Example: Keeping watch over my heart v. 23

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Winter Season of Advent to Epiphany this year we read Judges, Proverbs 4 6.

For all the Firestarters I recommend the ebook.  You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or tablet. Check the menu options at the site for more information