The Bible in a Year “Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.” — Daniel 5:27 Daniel 5 brings us into a banquet hall filled with wealth, influence, music, and wine. King Belshazzar is entertaining a thousand nobles while Babylon appears secure around them. Yet the celebration becomes an act of openContinue reading “When God Weighs What the World Applauds”
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When God Weighs What the World Applauds
The Bible in a Year “Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.” — Daniel 5:27 Daniel 5 brings us into a banquet hall filled with wealth, influence, music, and wine. King Belshazzar is entertaining a thousand nobles while Babylon appears secure around them. Yet the celebration becomes an act of openContinue reading “When God Weighs What the World Applauds”
Finishing Well
Paul’s Heart for a Growing Church Thru the Bible in a Year As we step into today’s reading—2 Corinthians 9–13—we complete Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. What strikes me each time I read these chapters is how personal they are. Paul is not writing abstract theology here; he is writing as a spiritual fatherContinue reading “Finishing Well”