Dave Miller's 2024 Bible Reading Challenge

 Hebrews 11 - The Hall of Faith All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Hebrews 11 If you have time, read the entire chapter, Hebrews 11. Our key passage today is verses 20-22, and you should spend time focusing and meditating on those verses. 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. 21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and he worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. 22 By faith Joseph, as he was nearing the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the Israelites and gave instructions concerning his bones. Through the Bible Readings:   1 Samuel 19-20, Luke 19:1–27, Psalm 55:1–4, Proverbs 12:1-2 If you wish to read through the Bible in a year, follow these ...

 Hebrews 11 - The Hall of Faith All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Hebrews 11 If you have time, read the entire chapter, Hebrews 11. Our key passage today is verses 11-19, and you should spend time focusing and meditating on those verses. 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents as did Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.   11 By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, receiv...

 Hebrews 11 - The Hall of Faith All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Hebrews 11 If you have time, read the entire chapter, Hebrews 11. Our key passage today is verses 2-7, and you should spend time focusing and meditating on those verses. 2 For by this our ancestors were approved. 3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. 4 By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith. 5 By faith Enoch was taken away, and so he did not experience death. He was not to be found because God...

 Hebrews 11 - The Hall of Faith All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Hebrews 11 If you have time, read the entire chapter, Hebrews 11. Our key passage today is verse 1, and you should spend time focusing and meditating on that verse. This is the shortest passage we will have all year in our readings, perhaps, but it may be one of the most difficult. 11:1  Now faith is the reality  of what is hoped for, the proof  of what is not seen. Please, before you read my devotional, which attempts to explain what this verse means, take some time to think this through prayerfully and consider what it means. Through the Bible Readings:   1 Samuel 13-14, Luke 17:20–37, Psalm 52, Proverbs 11:25-26 If you wish to read t...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 If you have time, 2 Corinthians  4-5. Our focus passage today is 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. Meditate on it carefully. Though I have called Romans 8 the Mt. Everest of Scriptures, there are not many 6-verse sections of Scripture that have this much meat! 16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministr...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 Read 2 Corinthians  4-5 if you have the time. Focus on and meditate on 2 Corinthians 5:11-15. 11 Therefore, since we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your consciences. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in outward appearance rather than in the heart. 13 For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for ...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 Read 2 Corinthians  4-5 if you can. Focus on 2 Corinthians 5:6-10. 6 So we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 Therefore, whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to be pleasing to him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil. Through the Bible Readings:   1 Samuel 7-8, Luke 15:11–32, Psalm 51:1–7, Proverbs 11:19-20 ...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 Read 2 Corinthians  4-5 if you can. The focus passage today is 2 Corinthians 5:1-5. For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands. 2 Indeed, we groan in this tent, desiring to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 since, when we are clothed we will not be found naked. 4 Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment. Through...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 If you have time, read 2 Corinthians  4-5 again. Our focus passage is 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, which has one of my favorite verses. 16 Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. 17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. 18 So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Through the Bible Readings:   1 Samuel 3-4, Luke 14:12–35, Psalm 50:11–17, Proverbs 11:15-16 If you wish to read through the Bible in a year, foll...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5    Today's focus passage is 2 Corinthians 4:7-15. Read the entire 2 chapters, if you can, but meditate on this section. 7 Now we have this treasure in clay jars, so that this extraordinary power may be from God and not from us. 8 We are afflicted in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair; 9 we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed. 10 We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be displayed in our body. 11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal ...

Himalayan Heights: 2 Corinthians 4-5 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months, we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    2 Corinthians 4-5 , focus - 4:1-6 If Romans 8 is the Mt. Everest of the Bible, 2 Corinthians  4-5 may be the K2 (the second-highest mountain in the world). Read the entire passage today. Then focus on 4:1-6. The church at Corinth was always Paul's problem child. By this point, many were questioning the validity of his apostleship. Much of the thrust of 2 Corinthians is about genuine Christianity and what makes us real. Through the Bible Readings:   Ruth 3-4, Luke 13:1–21, Psalm 50:1–3, Proverbs 11:11-12 If you wish to read through the Bible in a year, follow these readings.  Devotional: Walking in Christ's Light Paul is a fraud. That is wh...

Himalayan Heights: Romans 8 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Romans 8 Though we are going to focus each day on a different portion of this wonderful text, read Romans 8 each day. If there are some Scriptures that are the Himalayas of the Bible, Romans 8 must be Mt. Everest!  Starting with the affirmation that there is no condemnation in Christ, through the promise that all things work for the good of those who love him, and ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, it is one mountain peak after the other. We could do a year of daily devotions from this passage and not exhaust its glories, but we will settle for doing one week - seven days.  We have enjoyed taking our grandchildren...

Himalayan Heights: Romans 8 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Romans 8 Though we are going to focus each day on a different portion of this wonderful text, read Romans 8 each day. If there are some Scriptures that are the Himalayas of the Bible, Romans 8 must be Mt. Everest!  Starting with the affirmation that there is no condemnation in Christ, through the promise that all things work for the good of those who love him, and ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, it is one mountain peak after the other. We could do a year of daily devotions from this passage and not exhaust its glories, but we will settle for doing one week - seven days.  In verse 31, Paul reaches the pinnacle o...

Himalayan Heights: Romans 8 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Romans 8 Though we are going to focus each day on a different portion of this wonderful text, read Romans 8 each day. If there are some Scriptures that are the Himalayas of the Bible, Romans 8 must be Mt. Everest!  Starting with the affirmation that there is no condemnation in Christ, through the promise that all things work for the good of those who love him, and ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, it is one mountain peak after the other. We could do a year of daily devotions from this passage and not exhaust its glories, but we will settle for doing one week - seven days.  We can potentially open a can of worms t...

Himalayan Heights: Romans 8 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Romans 8 Though we are going to focus each day on a different portion of this wonderful text, read Romans 8 each day. If there are some Scriptures that are the Himalayas of the Bible, Romans 8 must be Mt. Everest!  Starting with the affirmation that there is no condemnation in Christ, through the promise that all things work for the good of those who love him, and ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, it is one mountain peak after the other. We could do a year of daily devotions from this passage and not exhaust its glories, but we will settle for doing one week - seven days.  Some verses are more prone to misinterpr...

Himalayan Heights: Romans 8 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful, but there are some Scriptures that we can consider the Himalayan mountaintops of the Bible. In the next few months we will be looking at a series of great texts that inspire and move us - the "Himalayan Heights" of God's Word. Today's Reading:    Romans 8 Though we are going to focus each day on a different portion of this wonderful text, read Romans 8 each day. If there are some Scriptures that are the Himalayas of the Bible, Romans 8 must be Mt. Everest!  Starting with the affirmation that there is no condemnation in Christ, through the promise that all things work for the good of those who love him, and ending with the promise that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, it is one mountain peak after the other. We could do a year of daily devotions from this passage and not exhaust its glories, but we will settle for doing one week - seven days.  Gordon Fee says that the key theme of Pa...