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Nehemiah 12- 2020-08-04READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 12 12:1–7 With the Judahite-Benjaminite settlement of Jerusalem and the region now documented, the account offers a supplementary list of clerical personnel extending across multiple generations. The list is headed by those associated with the high...August 4, 2020 -
Ps147- 2020-08-03READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 147
1 Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem; he gathers...August 3, 2020 -
Ps121- 2020-07-31READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 121 A Song of Ascents. 1 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? 2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not...July 31, 2020
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Nehemiah 11- 2020-07-30READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 11 11:1–3 Having recommitted themselves in the previous chapter to a giving of the firstfruits and tithes that would sustain the temple, the people now cast lots in order to “tithe” themselves in the repopulation of Jerusalem...July 30, 2020
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Nehemiah 10- 2020-07-29READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 10 Bible Text: Nehemiah 10:30-39 30 We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons. 31 And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or...July 29, 2020
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Nehemiah 10- 2020-07-28READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 10 10:30 Given the prominence of the theme of separation in the book as a whole (Ezra 9; Neh 9:2) and the aversion for intermarriage (Ezra 9), it is hardly surprising that this concern heads the...July 28, 2020
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Ps116- 2020-07-27READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 116 1 I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. 2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as...July 27, 2020
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Ps103- 2020-07-24READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 103 Of David. 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, 3 who forgives...July 24, 2020
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Nehemiah 9- 2020-07-23READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 9 Bible Text: Nehemiah 9:26-38 26 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you,...July 23, 2020
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Nehemiah 9- 2020-07-22READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 9 9:1–5 As in Ezra 10, the assembled people here manifest visible signs of mourning, and the Israelites separate themselves from those described as “foreign.” While it is suggested that the Israelites’ separation here is...July 22, 2020
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Nehemiah 8- 2020-07-21READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 8 Bible Text: Nehemiah 8:13-18 13 On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words...July 21, 2020
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Ps91- 2020-07-20READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 91 1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God,...July 20, 2020
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Ps62- 2020-07-17READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 62 To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. 1 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. 2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my...July 17, 2020
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Nehemiah 8- 2020-07-16READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 8 8:1–8 Having described in great detail the diversity and distribution of the returnees in Neh 7, the narrative moves quickly to affirm in 8:1 the unity of (“all”) the people and the singularity of their...July 16, 2020
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Nehemiah 7- 2020-07-15READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 7 Bible Text: Nehemiah 7:4-73 4 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. 5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles...July 15, 2020
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Nehemiah 7- 2020-07-14READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 7 7:1–4 Given their appearance in 7:45, it is most probable that the gatekeepers (7:1) mentioned by Nehemiah were normally associated with the temple and here stationed along with the other cultic guilds (singers and Levites)...July 14, 2020
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Ps61- 2020-07-13READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 61 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1 Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; 2 from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the...July 13, 2020
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Ps56- 2020-07-10READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 56 To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. 1 Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long...July 10, 2020
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Nehemiah 6- 2020-07-09READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 6 6:1–7 News of Nehemiah’s virtual completion of the wall apparently prompts Sanballat and Geshem to request a meeting with Nehemiah outside Jerusalem (6:2). Whatever the full story may have been, Nehemiah is clearly of the...July 9, 2020
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Nehemiah 5- 2020-07-08READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 5 5:1–5 Nehemiah 5:2–5 appears to report separate complaints, but the increasing specificity of their presentation contributes to the cumulative rhetorical effect on the reader. Thus the articulation of the basic problem, an existential need for...July 8, 2020
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Nehemiah 4- 2020-07-07READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: NEHEMIAH 4 4:1–3 Sanballat’s earlier allegations of rebellion, easily dismissed by Nehemiah (2:19–20), now give way to a vitriolic questioning of the returnees’ ability to complete the job. Sanballat scornfully calls into question either their own unrealistic...July 7, 2020
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Ps46- 2020-07-06READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 46 To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives...July 6, 2020
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Ps37- 2020-07-03READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 37 Of David. 1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! 2 For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. 3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell...July 3, 2020
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Nehemiah 3- 2020-07-02READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 3 3:1–2 Confirmation of the community’s earlier commitment to the project (2:18: “Let us arise and build”) is supplied by the report here that Eliashib the high priest and his confederates “arose and built” (3:1) the Sheep...July 2, 2020
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Nehemiah 2- 2020-07-01READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 2 Bible Text: Nehemiah 2:11-20 11 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my...July 1, 2020
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Nehemiah 2- 2020-06-30READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 2 2:1–8 Whether Nehemiah awaits his turn to attend to the king, or perhaps awaits the return of the king himself from the royal winter residence in Babylon, some four months pass before an opportune time...June 30, 2020
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Ps32- 2020-06-29READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 32 Psalm 32 A Maskil of David. 1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit...June 29, 2020
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Ps30- 2020-06-26READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Bible Text: Psalm 30 A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple. 1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over...June 26, 2020
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Nehemiah 1- 2020-06-25READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Nehemiah 1 1:1–4 Nehemiah’s concern for “the remnant” resonates with Ezra’s prayer (Ezra 9:8, 13, 15) without differentiating between those who had returned to the land and those who had never been exiled in the first place....June 25, 2020
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Ezra10- 2020-06-24READ MOREJournal Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals: A Guide to Journaling & Prayer A Guide to Self-Reflection A Chart to help articulate feelings Commentary: Ezra 10 Bible Text: Ezra 10:16-44 16 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the...June 24, 2020
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