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Chronological Thematic Bible Reading - Adam and Beginnings

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 “Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.” Romans 5:20 Last year, 2025, I read the entire Bible with the Bible Recap reading plan. I read the New Testament with that plan in 2024 and resolved I would do the whole plan January 1, and I did! Some of my favorite readings were in the Kings and Chronicles. More on that in another post.  I wanted to capture this journey through the Bible. It’s a totally different plan it is not cover to cover but as the title suggests, Chronological Order AND thematic. So we jump around from Old Testament to New. I don’t think a lot of believers have ever read their Bible cover to cover. Many reject the Old Testament because it “doesn’t apply.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Leviticus will absolutely bless you when you read it through the lens of our Savior. I fell in love with the Old Testament last year and how beautiful it truly is.  Without rambling on, you can find this reading on YouVersion Bible App. Let’s connect and...
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Oh Saint Suffer Well

" The Lord   God   has given   me  the tongue of those who are taught,  that   I may know how to sustain with a word  him who is weary.   Morning by morning he awakens;   he awakens my ear   to hear as those who are taught." Isaiah 50:4 Be the end of the year, which is just a couple more weeks, I will complete my first Bible in a Year plan!  While I have read the entire Bible in 90 Days years ago, I haven't ever (that I can remember) read it all the way through and pondered.  When I finished the Old Testament I loved it so much I immediately started another Bible in a year plan so I could start again and refresh the Old Testament while I go through the New Testament.  At the moment I am reading Isaiah and Romans.  I've loved every word of the Old Testament, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, the battles in Kings and Chronicles, the words of the prophets.  I have found His Word as treasure, and I often think how sad tha...
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A Blip on the Radar

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"For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,   as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ESV I recently was in a meeting at work with some managers at my job and the phrase came up that "this will all be a blip on the radar down the road."  I've been pondering that statement these last few weeks.  "A blip on the radar."  My life doesn't feel like a blip on the radar, there's danger and turbulence everywhere and alarms are going off and we're firing missiles every direction!  I'm paying the consequences of sin from years ago and I can't get away from the reminders of what a mess life got to be.  It's like we all got knocked out of orbit in 2020 and we're spinning out of control trying to regain ourselves and who we were ...
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Ponderings on Charlie Kirks Death - Keeping Jesus the Main Thing

To be quite honest, I didn't listen to Charlie Kirk much.  I saw clips of him here and there and knew about his grassroots ministry of Turning Point.  I liked what he stood for and what he was doing.  He definitely was doing what God put him here to do.  He had the personality for it, and the drive to do what he did.  However, even though I wasn't an avid listener, I did listen to his last interview with Laura Ingram on Fox News last Monday night.  I loved what he said, "Get married, have children, love your family."  And I smiled and agreed, that is the true American and Christian way to live happily.  For reasons only known to the Lord, He has not granted me that happiness yet, but He has given me many children who need love into my arms to make laugh, to teach, and hug tight.  I love being Aunt Aggie. Last Wednesday I was working from home as is usual, and I was flipping around on the TV usually between Fox News and something else, Martha ...
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Jeremiah: The Word of the LORD Came to Me

 A couple of years ago as God was leading me back into a fellowship of Church and Believers after a few years of hard trials I found myself in what I called the "Land of Oz" and in a Sunday Morning study through the book of Jeremiah.  I wrote a piece a few years ago about it linked here  . Like the book of Ecclesiastes changed my life in a Sunday morning book study and birthed this ministry "Living Above the Sun," so this book written by a prophet whose nickname is "The Weeping Prophet" was a sweet gift from my LORD as he gently was leading me back to the life He had called me to live.  It was a sweet gift because He was leading me in repentance for the years of hard living I had just come through.  Sin I never intended to ever do, or thought I could do...I fell hard.  But here I was back in a church pew around people that felt foreign to me.  I was longing for Jesus and His Word, the familiar, the truths I had held near to me.  The theologies I ...
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Tait still has a place at the Table

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  My heart has hurt this week for Tait, his band mates, his family…what a heavy burden to carry all these years alone and not know what to do or where to start turning to deal with his sin. My rock has dropped from my hand and fallen on the path of grace and mercy God set me on!  I’m not far behind Tait in my sin and shame. What courage he had to step out and confess and seek help. I’m not sitting here saying what he did isn’t a big deal, it is. What I’m saying is as someone who has battled from the pits of hell in my own life and lived to tell it, he has battled through and still is and living to tell it!  We Christian folks like to wound our broken.  The lyrics we of the 90s took to heart with DC Talk: “What if I stumble? What if I fall? What if I lose my step and make fools of us all? Will the love continue when my walk becomes my crawl?” Has the love continued? I don’t know, but I’m praying that someone will come along side Tait, love him unconditionally and help...
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The Fruit of the Righteous is a tree of Life

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“Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.” -  Daniel‬ ‭12‬:‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ I’ve been laying in my hammock on my porch this lovely Saturday morning, listening to the leaves rustle in the wind and give just enough umph to make my wind chimes ring a note or two. The crepe Myrtle’s are blooming white snowballs, and birds gathered in her limbs singing their song bouncing branch to branch.  I’ve been reading a book called “The God of the Garden” and continuing to read Proverbs in my Bible Recap journey to read the entire Bible in a year. My porch feels like a paradise; an Eden tucked under the dogwood and crepe Myrtle and birds and …okay, even the dang bugs. As I swing in my hammock reading the wisdom of God in Proverbs juxtaposing righteousness and wickedness I’m drawn to the life it’s giving me.  As I watch the flowery white blooms fall like snow to the ground and on my car! I’m ...
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