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55 days down, 310 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 15:1 – 16:28; Mark 7:1-23; Psalms 40:11-17; Proverbs 10:13-14.

My thoughts from today’s reading:

1. THE BIBLE AND STD’S
2. INDIANA JONES HAD IT WRONG – God is in you, not a gold box
3. WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART – PART 1
4. POOR AND NEEDY? Talk to God
5. I PITY THE FOOL! – Mr. T had it right

1. THE BIBLE AND STD’S
Just in case you still haven’t figured out yet, there’s nothing new under the sun, and that the bible covers almost every issue you can imagine. From murder to rape to prostitution to adultery to intoxication to drugs to robbery to murder…you name it, it’s in there.

Even STD’s. That’s right. It’s a problem today and it was a problem thousands of years ago.

Nowadays, we can wash our hands whenever we want, and we have medications to clear up things that soap cannot. But even today, if you get that burning sensation, that leakage or that weird rash “down there”, you’ve got some problems.
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53 days down, 312 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 13:1-59; Mark 6:1-20; Psalms 39:1-13; Proverbs 10:10.

My thoughts from today’s reading:

1. ANCIENT HATERS – A prophet without honor
2. NEXT ON MAURY – DEADLY STEPDAUGHTER STRIPPERS! (repeat)
3. CONTROL YOUR MOUTH – David’s short temper
4. LIFE IS SHORT
5. ANCIENT DERMATOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

1. ANCIENT HATERS – A prophet without honor
A hater is someone who just doesn’t like you, and for no good reason. They often either wish bad for you, or refuse to give you credit when you deserve it. Often your haters are actually jealous of you.

Nowadays, everyone seems to know what a hater is, and in many cases, the more you achieve, the more “haters” you have. Some people even exaggerate the numbers of haters they have, in an attempt to make themselves feel like more of a success, or more enviable

The term “haters” was popularized by rap lyrics within the last 10 years or so I would say, but the haters themselves have been around much longer – even 2,000 years ago.

Yes, Jesus, too, had haters.
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52 days down, 313 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 11:1– 12:8; Mark 5:21-43; Psalms 38:1-22; Proverbs 10:8-9.

My thoughts from today’s reading:

1. DROP THE DISBELIEVERS
2. YOU GOTTA SMELL YOUR OWN FUNK – Feel your sin
3. WISE PEOPLE WELCOME CORRECTION

1. DROP THE DISBELIEVERS
When you’re chasing your dream, you must keep the faith and maintain your focus at all costs. Whether it’s an athletic pursuit, a business idea, or going to the next level in your spiritual life, your faith and your focus must always be protected.

You must avoid the naysayers and the doubters.

Jesus puts this into practice in Mark 5:39-42.

He is going to the home of Jairus to heal his sick daughter, but before He gets there, the girl dies.
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51 days down, 314 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 9:7– 10:20; Mark 4:26 – 5:20; Psalms 37:30-40; Proverbs 10:6-7.

My thoughts from today’s reading:

1. DEAL WITH YOUR OWN ISSUES FIRST

2. THE POWER OF STORIES – Ancient parables, modern movies – The Passion of the Na’vi

1. DEAL WITH YOUR OWN ISSUES FIRST
No one likes a hypocrite, especially a religious one – they guy that rails on someone for their sins, while they’re secretly doing the same thing, or something just as bad. This goes without saying, so I won’t dwell on that.

But what about the people who aren’t necessarily boldfaced hypocrites?

None of us will ever be prefect on this side of heaven, but thankfully, we don’t have to be perfect and without sin to help someone through their sin.

But we do have to have our hearts in the right place with God before we can really be used to help other people.

In Leviticus 9:15, Aaron the priest offers sacrifice for the people only AFTER he has offered sacrifice for his own sin.
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48 days down, 317 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 4:1 – 5:19; Mark 2:13 – 3:6; Psalms 36:1-12; Proverbs 10:1-2.

My thoughts from today’s reading.

1. DON’T SPILL THE WINE – God wants to stretch you.
2. HAS SIN EVER WHISPERED TO YOU?
3. $100 FOR A LIE & $200 FOR CUSSING - Paying for your sins
4. BAD KIDS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT AND CRIME DOESN’T PAY

1. DON’T SPILL THE WINE – God’s wants to stretch you
No this post isn’t a defense for Christians to drink wine.

In Mark 2:13-27 Jesus is getting into it with the Pharisees again. They are once again trying to frame Him as guilty of breaking Jewish religious law.

Jesus tells them in Matthew 2:22:
“And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. For the wine would burst the wineskins, and the wine and the skins would both be lost. New wine calls for new wineskins.”

This is another one of those parables and analogies that are a bit anachronous for us today, meaning they don’t quite apply to our day and time.

Back then, wineskins held wine, and newer wineskins were more flexible and more able to be stretched than old
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47 days down, 318 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Leviticus 1:1 – 3:17; Mark 1:29 – 2:12; Psalms 35:17-28; Proverbs 9:13-18.

Leviticus underway. Let’s go.

1. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF BLOOD – Old Testament Sacrifices
2. ANCIENT HEALTH TIPS – God M.D.
3. LINE UP YOUR DEMONS
4. JESUS – AN EXAMPLE OF PRAYER
5. JESUS WAS BADDER THAN MIKE

1. THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF BLOOD – Old Testament Sacrifices
Leviticus 1-3 begins the third book of the bible with graphic details of God’s system of animal sacrifice.

From our modern perspective, reading it paints a pretty gruesome picture of priests stabbing animals in the throat, breaking birds’ necks, skinning dead animals, ripping and tearing their bodies apart, and then splashing the blood on an altar.

By today’s standards it almost sounds like a slasher flick. It even reminds me of some type of voodoo or witchcraft ritual.

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43 days down, 322 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Exodus 34:1 – 35:9; Matthew 27:11-31; Psalms 33:12-22; Proverbs 9:1-6.

Here we go.

1. IDOLATRY IS CONTAGIOUS – Be careful who you hang around
2. THERE’S BLOOD ON OUR HANDS – and we should thank God for it
3. NEVER BE CONQUERED – but sometimes it’s just easier to settle for defeat!
4. HOW MUCH LONGER WILL GOD PROTECT AMERICA?

1. IDOLATRY IS CONTAGIOUS – Be careful who you hang around
OK we’ve all heard it when we were kids. Our parents would tell, “Those kids are no kid. Don’t go hanging around with them.” Of course we all know that parents don’t obtain any actual sense until we’re about 20 or 25 years old ourselves, so until then, there’s no point in really listening to them.

All joking aside, look what God says in Exodus 34:12-17.
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42 days down. 323 days to go.

Here are the scriptures for the day. Exodus 32:1 - 33:23; Matthew 26:69 - 27:10; Psalms 33:1-11; Proverbs 8:33-36.

I know this blog is going up a lot later in the day than normal. It was a crazy day. Forgive me.

1. SIN DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN – We build our own golden calf
2. 400 YEARS AND HOLDING – An inheritance of faith
3. KILLER PRIESTS!
4. GOD LIKES MUSIC

1. SIN DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN – We build our own golden calf
Sometimes we like to blame everyone except ourselves for our sin. It is true that we are under a spiritual attack that aims to weigh us down with our own sin, ultimately destroying us. However this does not exempt us from responsibility for our actions.

Ultimately, we are to blame for our own sin, because whenever we sin, we could have chosen to do otherwise.

Sin doesn't just happen. We like sin, so we choose to sin, and that is why we do it.
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41 days down, 324 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Exodus 30:11 – 31:18; Matthew 26:47-68; Psalms 32:1-11; Proverbs 8:27-32.

Here we go.

1. GOD’S CEO SUPPORT PROGRAM – You don’t need to know how to cook hamburgers
2. COME OUT OF THE CLOSET - CONFESSION IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL
3. NOW THAT'S COMMITMENT
4. GET CONTROL OF YOURSELF!

1. GOD’S CEO SUPPORT PROGRAM
When God gives you a vision for something, whether it be a business, a ministry or somewhere in between, He doesn’t necessarily pick something you have previous experience with.

When our ministry began making movies, we had no experience in that area. No film school. No Hollywood connections. Not even a theater background.

So may be the case with you. Have you ever heard this saying? “You don’t have to know how to cook hamburgers to open up a hamburger joint. You just have to know someone who does.”
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35 days down, 330 to go.

Today’s scriptures for my Read the Bible in a Year plan are Exodus 20:1 – Exodus 21:21; Psalms 27:7-14; Proverbs 7:1-5.

I know some of these are out of order from yesterday, but it will be back in order tomorrow. So here we go.

1. THE GREATER THE SIN, THE LESS THE FEAR OF GOD
2. PATIENCE, BRAVERY AND COURAGE
3. SLAVERY IN THE BIBLE – QUITE A DOOZY

1. THE GREATER THE SIN, THE LESS THE FEAR OF GOD
In Exodus 20, God is declaring His 10 Commandments from Mt. Sinai. The people at the base of the mountain can hear God’s thunderous voice and apparently feel the mountain literally shake from God’s presence.

They become extremely frightened and later tell Moses, “Hey man. You talk to God and tell us what He said. We don’t want Him to talk to us, because we’ll die if He does.”
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