Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Job 40:3-14.

God responds to Job in a manner very different from the “friends” of Job. They are into debate, to set the mind and mouth going in the search to solve the mystery of evil. God’s tactic is to silence Job’s tongue so that he can peer through the lens of God’s eyes and see God’s world.

The Lord presents Job with some large animals of the wild. God invites him to enter their world and to exit Job’s limited one. The secret is to be released from the obsession of his own thoughts, to place himself again into the mystery of the universe.

When you find that you are being obsessed with problems, look out the “window” of your world and look at the Lord’s. Get involved in something that is fun for you, so that in the joy of pure living, you give God glory.

God’s wisdom and power are beyond our capacity to understand. In God’s own time, the scales of justice will be balanced.

Job 40

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Example: Laying my hand on my mouth v. 4

Tuesdays are dedicated to the Old Testament books of history
and the Hebrew “Writings.”
In the Season of Lent this year we read Job 15-21; 39-40

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

Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Jeremiah 33:14-16.

Can you imagine the sun no longer rising, or the moon changing its faithful rotation about the earth each month? So unchanging is God’s Covenant with us. However, there is one condition—obedience. Slaves must be set free. How can anyone be free while controlling the lives of others through slavery?

There is a marked change in the atmosphere of this section of Jeremiah. Greater than the punishment of exile is God’s desire to restore the people to their land. There is a sense of “hoping against hope” that Jeremiah is holding out to you. God is faithful, unchanging as the sun and the moon.

Are you unchanging toward God in your response? Are you letting go of the need to control others, which in our day, is a brand of slavery? As you read about the Rechabites, ask yourself, “Is there something specific that the Lord is asking of me?”

Read quietly, with joy. God will do wonderful things with your life, if you will let God do it.

Jeremiah 33—35

Mondays are dedicated to the reading of the Hebrew Prophets.
In the Season of Lent this year we read Jeremiah 18 to 35.

What are “Bible Breaths”? Learn More…
Example: Your steadfast love forever v. 11

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.

Listen to Pastor Nick read the Firestarter and Mark 15:33-39.

The greatest week of the year has come, Holy Week. Hour by hour, follow the movement of Jesus as your salvation and mine is won. You might read the Passion according to Mark throughout the day, taking portions of it as each hour strikes.

Go near the cross. Do not shy away and be distant. Look what happened when Peter did that! When that nightly hour struck with the cockcrow, he remembered his denial; Peter’s heart was pierced along with Jesus’s.

Remember the obvious: Christians throughout the world are entering into Holy Week; pray for them. May the palm you bring home be a sign of loyalty to Christ.

Mark 14:1—15:47

What are “Bible Breaths”? Learn More…
Example: Hosanna in the highest! v. 10

Sundays are dedicated to the Gospels from the Revised Common Lectionary.

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.