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In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The story of Scripture traces the genealogies through Abraham’s three wives. Remember, God is telling His story to the Hebrews who have just come out of their slavery in Egypt. He wants them to know who He is, and He desires that they understand who they are. He is Creator. He promised a Seed to Eve who would on...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God provides for Hagar and Ishmael but establishes that Isaac will inherit the promise of the Seed. For twenty-five years in the land of Promise, God trained Abraham and Sarah to walk by faith. God needs Abraham to be ready to obey when He commands him to place his only son on the altar of atonement. Once the ro...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God teaches Sarah to resist telling Him what is possible and what is not. His judgment on Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plains comes ten generations after the flood. God’s action at Babel allows Him to execute judgment in isolated places until the time of the final judgment. Abraham is allowed to partic...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Abram has acted by faith. After rescuing Lot from the kings who captured him and recovering all of the wealth that was taken in the war... Abram has declared that Creator God alone is his King. He has refused to keep any of the possessions that belong to the king of Sodom. Now God responds to Abram's faith obed...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  God designed mankind in His image to live in a faith relationship with Him according to His design. God created this faith relationship by: Giving instructions to obey Promises to believe And boundaries to trust Even though God had commanded Noah to "be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth," And although Noah...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The flood story reveals God’s righteousness and wrath. He acts to make Himself known. God desires that His image-bearers understand His character, their need for redemption and His faithfulness to both forgive those who walk by faith and punish all wickedness. God defines for Noah all that He is doing. He is des...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Two groups of people form: those who call on the name of the Lord and those who live according to their own pleasures. In the second generation, Abel and Cain’s story teaches us that God’s terms for salvation are non-negotiable. Understanding the story of the Bible helps us interpret why God accepts Abel’s offer...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), God redeemed the Hebrews from their slavery in Egypt. Now in the wilderness after experiencing God’s authority and power over the most powerful nation on the earth and its false gods, God wants His covenant people to know His character. As the story of Scripture is told from the beginning, God desires to deprogr...

If you are not paying close attention, this storyline can escape your attention...but it is an important storyline! This is Edom's story...and Edom's story--when you understand it--can keep you from making some interpretive errors later in Scripture!

Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He gave the church one job to do...make disciples who make disciples. 

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  The proverbs address sexual immorality and violence quickly. These are two areas man struggles with from the beginning of the Story. Also, wisdom is paying attention to what God loves. It is also paying close attention to what God hates. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Solomon records proverbs as an intentional training manual for attaining wisdom from the Lord. Proverbs invites us to choose God's blessing over the devastating consequences to sin. The invitation comes with a promise. If you desire wisdom and are willing to apply yourself to it, God will grant it. Let’s di...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  In Solomon's generation, God's promises to Abraham are fulfilled. Solomon understands what God requires of the heart of Israel's kings. His short-lived obedience and Israel's short-lived flourishing highlight our need for a King who never fails. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  God blesses everything Solomon touches. On the surface, it seems that nothing can stop Israel rise to prominence on the world stage. Under the surface, however, Solomon is growing calloused to the rebuke of Scripture.  Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Solomon’s wisdom becomes known through the untangling of the testimonies of two untrustworthy witnesses. Unique among men, Solomon possess the ability to uncover truth in spheres where truth seems undiscoverable. He uses wisdom to negotiate with his allies. In seven years, Solomon completed the difficult task o...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Asaph again pens a corporate worship song instructing Israel of future things. Solomon establishes the kingdom by administering justice. The king must do the work of tearing down the wicked in order for righteousness in his rule to have integrity. What the king desires most from the Lord reveals his understandi...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Psalm 79 provides Israel with another means through which to be exposed in their sin before the hand of God's wrath falls. Because Israel fails to sing this song consistently, its words must remind an exiled Israel to repent. Something really neat is going on with this psalm--another opportunity to champion...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Four songs of Asaph instruct God's people to know God through His story. God makes Himself known to every generation. He raises up stewards of His word and sends them out to declare His works among the nations. God administers His redemption plan among the nations. He also speaks, acts, and reveals in such...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Asaph, one of the leaders of Israel's corporate worship, memorializes God's charge against His people, transparently allows Israel to witness and remember his repentance journey, and he leads Israel through corporate repentance. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  The Psalms search out and state the character of God, His deeds that produce praise in His people, and the glory of His name. The prayers and songs of God's people instruct all believers to order their lives according to who God is and how He acts rather than be conformed to the culture around them. Let’s d...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team),  Israel's corporate worship directs believers to think rightly about God, themselves, and others. Singing truth together reminds all believers to order their lives by faith, making every effort to learn obedience to the Lord's commands. Let’s dive into today’s reading! ©2023joelstrahan

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Entering God’s rest is difficult because of our weakness. This is why Jesus is appointed our High Priest. The writer of Hebrews says: Hebrews 4:15–16 (NLT) 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin. 16 So let us come boldly to the thro...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), The writer of Hebrews explains that Jesus is God. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are One—Jesus being the full revelation to us of God’s glory and character. It may appear that the Son is different than the Father or even lesser than the angels, but God has declared Him Son in order to bring...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Paul tells Timothy: 2 Timothy 4:6 (NLT) 6 As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near. Paul encourages Timothy to remain faithful to Jesus, endure suffering, and be strong through grace in Jesus Christ. Difficult days lie ahead, but the Lord’s servant has on...

In today’s reading of Tyndale’s OYCSB (with featured content written by the CBT team), Paul concludes his first letter to Timothy. He reinforces the need for Timothy not to be outward-focused, but attentive to his own faith-journey. The integrity of the gospel is proven in its transformative power in the one who proclaims it. Paul calls Timothy and Titus his sons. He left Titus in Crete to appoint...