Bible Reading Tips & Tea Time Recipes For The Day

I always start by reading the day-plan with all the readings for the main Text. Gateway put this plan together really well, because there’s an OT reading, a Psalm, a thought from Proverbs, and a NT reading each day. However, the themes are so well interwoven with the Fresh Start, I’m able to always get some context for the main.

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Late evening tea, another Keurig masterpiece with the filter

IKEA Dark Roast
Yerba Mate
Yogi Green Energy Tea

pinch of Cayenne pepper, powdered

Cheyenne-is-hot-I-mean-Cayenne — *JI | blend.dark roast coffee.yerba mate.green energy tea.cayenne | 10.17.22*

Cayenne is working well with plenty of my blends lately. It’s like Cinnamon… only MORE Cinnamon… nothing like a spicy | sweet | sassy | red spice. There are some times I can’t get enough of Cayenne. I hope I never run out.

At times, I do random song lists. This isn’t so random. There’s a method to my Bible reading lately.

I’m utilizing the read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year program in the indexes of the Fresh Start Bible, Gateway Publishing, NLT.

Bible reading tips & tea time recipes for the day

However, I’m tracking with the Scripture references from my Pastor’s sermon on Sunday.

There’s always the main Text and then some supplementary Texts, so you usually have to pay attention to pick up on them.
I always start by reading the day-plan with all the readings for the main Text. Gateway put this plan together really well, because there’s an OT reading, a Psalm, a thought from Proverbs, and a NT reading each day. However, the themes are so well interwoven with the Fresh Start, I’m able to always get some context for the main.
After the main, I spend the next days reading the day-plans for each supplementary Scripture from the sermon.

I think I’m doing pretty good, so I run it by one of those Bible reading gurus at church, you know the type. After he listened intently with a little curiosity to make me feel good about myself, he said he reads about 10-15 chapters a day and he’s read through the Bible 7 times. He doesn’t follow a plan. He just picks up where he left off…
no study…
just repetition!
BTW repetition is at the very heart of the Hebrew Bible definition and flow for the term meditation.

After piquing his curiosity for a brief moment before he schooled me, I’ve started posting a Scripture from the day on Facebook or LinkedIn. Sometimes I pique someone else’s curiosity. If only for a moment I feel like we’re walking alongside each other.

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Weep for her.
Give her medicine.
Perhaps she can yet be healed.
We would have helped her if we could,
but nothing can save her now.
Let her go; abandon her.

from the lament for Babylon

Jeremiah li

Never abandon a friend –
either yours or your father’s.
When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask
your brother for assistance.
It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a
brother who lives far away.

Solomon on solidarity

Proverbs xxvii.10

And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see they are doing what God wants…
*or…
they can see God at work in what he is doing.

John iii.19-21, NLT

Jesus & Nicodemus

Together we walk toward the light
Or we hide in our subgroups in the dark
Fear of vulnerability, that’s all
Christians or nonbelievers
Same processes

Well I only have 1 more show of The Chosen, season 1. Nicodemus is making me cry all along. It’s been so good to watch a show where “whosoever will” has an opportunity to walk alongside Jesus & Co.

I think I’ll start watching reruns of Downton Abbey now where you have to be on certain levels…

in certain rooms…