Thinking Theologian

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 23-25 Title: Warnings to Evil Shepherds    Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 23:2 “Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend my people: You have scattered my flock, banished them, and have not attended to them. I am about to attend to you because of your evil acts” — this is the Lord’s declaration.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah...

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 18-22 Title: A Fire Burning in the Heart    Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 20:9 “I say, “I won’t mention him or speak any longer in his name.” But his message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones. I become tired of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 23-25

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 14-17 Title: Deep Roots and Amazing Fruit    Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 17:8 “He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn’t fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 18-22

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 10-13 Title: Why Do the Wicked Prosper?    Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 12:1 “You will be righteous, Lord, even if I bring a case against you. Yet, I wish to contend with you: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 14-17

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 7-9 Title: Going Backward, Not Forward   Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 7:24 “Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 10-13

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 4-6 Title: Disobedience Judged    Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 6:19 “Listen, earth! I am about to bring disaster on these people, the fruit of their own plotting, for they have paid no attention to my words. They have rejected my instruction.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 7-9

Today’s Reading, Jeremiah 1-3 Title: Speak What the Lord Declares   Focal Scripture: Jeremiah 1:9 “Then the Lord reached out his hand, touched my mouth, and told me: I have now filled your mouth with my words.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 4-6

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 64-66 Title: The Person the Lord Favors   Focal Scripture: Isaiah 66:2 “My hand made all these things, and so they all came into being. This is the Lord’s declaration. I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and trembles at my word.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Jeremiah 1-3

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 59-63 Title: The Reality of Sin   Focal Scripture: Isaiah 59:1-2 “Indeed, the Lord’s arm is not too weak to save, and his ear is not too deaf to hear. But your iniquities are separating you from your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not listen.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 64-66

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 54-58 Title: The Thoughts of the Lord   Focal Scripture: Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 59-63

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 49-53 Title: The One Who Bears Our Iniquities Focal Scripture: Isaiah 53:6 “We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished him for the iniquity of us all.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 54-58

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 45-48 Title: The Plans of the Lord Focal Scripture: Isaiah 46:10 “I declare the end from the beginning, and from long ago what is not yet done, saying: my plan will take place, and I will do all my will.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 49-53

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 40-44 Title: The Lord Our Savior Focal Scripture: Isaiah 43:11-12 “I — I am the Lord.  Besides me, there is no Savior.  I alone declared, saved, and proclaimed — and not some foreign god among you.  So you are my witnesses” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and I am God.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 45-48

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 36-39 Title: Prayers the Lord Hears Focal Scripture: Isaiah 38:2-3 “Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord. He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before you faithfully and wholeheartedly, and have done what pleases you.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 40-44

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 31-35 Title: The Lord Our King Focal Scripture: Isaiah 33:22 “For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King. He will save us.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 36-39

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 28-30 Title: Deceitful Lips and Hardened Hearts Focal Scripture: Isaiah 29:13 “The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 31-35

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 23-27 Title: Trust the Lord Focal Scripture: Isaiah 26:4 “Trust in the Lord forever, because in the Lord, the Lord himself, is an everlasting rock! Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 28-30

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 18-22 Title: When Adversity Comes How Do You Respond Focal Scripture: Isaiah 19:3 “Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it, and I will frustrate its plans. Then they will inquire of worthless idols, ghosts, mediums, and spiritists.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 23-27

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 13-17 Title: The God Who Judges Focal Scripture: Isaiah 17:13   “The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 18-22

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 9-12 Title: The Root of Jesse Focal Scripture: Isaiah 11:3-4   “His delight will be in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears, but he will judge the poor righteously and execute justice for the oppressed of the land. He will strike the land with a scepter from his mouth, and he will k...

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 5-8 Title: A Glimpse of the Lord Focal Scripture: Isaiah 6:5   “Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Armies.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 9-12

Today’s Reading, Isaiah 1-4 Title: Have You Abandoned the Lord? Focal Scripture: Isaiah 1:4 “Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the Lord; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 5-8

Today’s Reading, Song of Songs 1-8 Title: The Timing of Love Focal Scripture: Song of Songs 2:7 “Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and the wild does of the field, do not stir up or awaken love until the appropriate time.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Isaiah 1-4

Today’s Reading, Ecclesiastes 9-12 Title: Don’t Waste Your Youth Focal Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:1 “So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: Before the days of adversity come, and the years approach when you will say, “I have no delight in them”; Tomorrow, I plan on reading Song of Songs 1-8

Today’s Reading, Ecclesiastes 5-8 Title: Being Patient is a Testimony Focal Scripture: Ecclesiastes 7:8 “The end of a matter is better than its beginning; a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.” Tomorrow, I plan on reading Ecclesiastes 9-12