Friday
Easter Kids Dice Game for Families - Plus FREE PRINTABLE
Sunday
Reading Through The Bible - MALACHI
The Overview Bible tells us the following
The prophet Malachi isn’t mentioned anywhere else in the Bible, but he deals with some of the same issues that Ezra the scribe and Nehemiah the governor deal with when the Jews disregard God’s law in their times:
- Corrupt priests
- Intermarriage with pagans
- Lapses in tithes and offerings
"The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi."
The Overview Bible tells us the following
"God has been faithful to Israel, but they continue to live disconnected from him—so God sends Malachi to call them out."
Teach Sunday School tells us the following
"By the time of Malachi, the people had been back after the Babylonian exile for over 100 years. They were looking for blessings. The temple had been rebuilt. However there was corruption in the priesthood and the people were becoming spiritually disinterested."
"Remember the Law of Moses, My servant,Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel,
With the statutes and judgments."
The Overview Bible gives us the following
- God loves His children (Mal 1:1–5)
- God disciplines His children (Mal 1:6–2:17)
- For the priests’ dishonesty (Mal 1:6–2:9)
- For intermarriage with foreigners (Mal 2:10–12)
- For husbands’ infidelity (Mal 2:13–17)
- God will purify His children (Mal 3:1–15)
- Some people again revere The Lord (Mal 3:16–18)
- God will bless those who fear Him (Mal 4)
Wednesday
10 Bible Verses of Encouragement about EASTER - plus Free Printable
We all need encouragement and the best place to go is to the Bible.
In this blog Post I have tried to gather some Bible passages or Bible verses which will encourage us all around the topic of Easter.
When we think of Easter many first think of the empty tomb but we also need to remember the cross had to come before the empty tomb could be celebrated.
Jesus although He was the sinless one the Son of God took on our sins
The death on the cross
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”
29 Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.
30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Easter - the cross and resurrection are the signs for us that God loves us
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Sunday
Reading Through The Bible - JONAH
"Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me."
"But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord."
The Overview Bible tells us the following
"Jonah is the most widely known of the Minor Prophets, the last 12 books of the Old Testament. When God had a message for the people, He spoke through the prophets. His word came in visions, oracles, dreams, parables, and the like. Most of these book were written to the people of Israel and Judah, but Jonah, Obadiah, and Nahum are more concerned with surrounding nations.These Minor Prophet books record those messages. They outline the people’s sins, the consequences of those sins, and the proper response to God.
Well, except the book of Jonah. It’s a story, not a sermon. It focuses on the prophet, not the people. And Jonah contains hardly any prophecy at all . . . only one line: “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown” (Jonah 3:4). Among the books of the Bible, Jonah is a bit of an oddball."
These Minor Prophet books record those messages. They outline the people’s sins, the consequences of those sins, and the proper response to God.
Well, except the book of Jonah. It’s a story, not a sermon. It focuses on the prophet, not the people. And Jonah contains hardly any prophecy at all . . . only one line: “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown” (Jonah 3:4). Among the books of the Bible, Jonah is a bit of an oddball.""Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai"
"He [King Jeroboam the son of Joash] restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Hepher"
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me."
The Overview Bible tells us the following
"Jonah’s life events told some of Christ’s story, and his message foreshadowed Christ’s message: repent!But Jonah isn’t all about repentance. It’s also a story of God’s compassion for all peoples, not just Israel."
"Jonah’s life events told some of Christ’s story, and his message foreshadowed Christ’s message: repent!But Jonah isn’t all about repentance. It’s also a story of God’s compassion for all peoples, not just Israel."
Teach Sunday School tells us the following
"The Book contains not only one of the most famous Bible miracles but it is also a great study on what can happen when we behave like snobs ."
"But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. "
The Overview Bible gives us the following:
- God directs Jonah, Jonah disobeys (Jonah 1)
- God has compassion on Jonah (Jonah 2)
- Jonah preaches to Nineveh, Nineveh repents (Jonah 3)
- God has compassion on Nineveh, but Jonah does not (Jonah 4)