All Aboard! The voyage begins today!
The readings from Genesis1, 2, Psalm 1, and Matthew 1 are appropriate for the first day of reading through the Bible. God said His creation is "good" each day. How awesome is the story of creation! The wonder of God fills these pages. (stars, creatures, heaven, earth, seas, day, night) Psalm 1 states constant meditation is like a tree planted by streams of water. What a wonderful image to begin this voyage! Do not worry about the bumpy reading of all the names of Jesus' ancestory in Matthew. Just scan and notice there are three groups of fourteen generations...Abraham to David, David to exile, and exile to Jesus. Matthew wants his readers to know Jesus is connected in Jewish heritage all the way back to Abraham.
posted by Philip McVay @ 6:47 AM
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Philip, thank you for getting us started!
I was drawn to the passages describing the creation as a dome. I am a visual learner, so I enjoyed the image of God looking down upon me like I look down upon a sports stadium from camera attached to the Goodyear blimp!
I hope He is pleased with my execution of His game plan!
Jack, I agree. I am a genealogy nut, from my own family to these we are now reading about. I am especially interested in the genealogy represented in the Aug. 9 reading--that of Noah and his sons. I am using Wesley's Expository Notes and Strong's Concordance to read about the meanings of each of the names and also to connect them to key figures in our New Testament readings. You can link to both resources by going to www.studylight.org. Enjoy!
First mention of Baseball, "In the Big-inning, God"
What is the difference in the genealogies as reflected in Luke vs. Matt.?
I would tend to agree with Phillip regarding scanning the genealogy part of Matthew. For the typical reader, like myself, getting bogged down in names I can hardly pronounce, nor ever hear from again in the Bible tends to sidetrack me from the ultimate message inherent in the passages of the day. I am not intending to knock genealogy nor the importance of Jesus' heritage. I don't think he meant to imply to scan the entire Bible as we go along, just the genealogy parts that tend to get pretty lengthy (as we will see later on in our Bible readings).
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