Bible In A Year with Jim McCracken
365 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsA daily podcast hosted by Jim McCracken. We will be walking together through the Bible in a year using the ESV chronological bible reading plan. Each day we post a new episode where Jim shares insights, encouragements, prayers, and all kinds of good stuff from that day's reading.
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December 31st - Day 365
December 31, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 31st Our bible reading today is in Revelation 19-22...the last day of the year ushering in something new, something Praiseworthy, something hopeful is our prayer... And we come to such a passage in our reading as we finish our Bible in a Year journey. Before we get into the text I want to thank each of you who have made the journey with me in 2020. You had plenty of choices as ...
December 30th - Day 364
December 30, 2020 10:00 - 8 minutes - 8.14 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 30 The bible reading today is in the book of Revelation chapters 12-18. From chapter 4-19, John was showing the 7 churches of Asia what God’s future work on earth looked like from heaven’s vantage point. Over the years, I have read what my spiritual mentors had to say about the unveiling of future events found in Revelation. Some differed widely. But one thing that they all had...
December 29th - Day 363
December 29, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.03 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 29th The bible reading is in Revelation chapters 6-11. “And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.”
December 28th - Day 362
December 28, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.03 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 28th The bible reading today is Revelation chapters 1-5. The word Revelation comes from a Greek word meaning apocalypse. That makes sense because The Revelation is a book of disclosure and unveiling of events in the future. Tradition says that Roman authorities took elderly John into custody...tried him...found him guilty and put him into a pot of boiling oil to execute him. B...
December 27th - Day 361
December 27, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.61 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 27th The bible reading today are two short, one chapter letters from the apostle John...2 John and 3 John. “The elder to the elect lady and her children, The elder is the apostle John...a leader and missionary in the church from the beginning...The elect lady and her children could refer metaphorically to the church in Asia. And her children could refer to church members in p...
December 26th - Day 360
December 26, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 26th The bible reading today is in 1 John 1-5. There is no doubt in the general theological community that the apostle John wrote 1,2,3 John. And I believe that too. The gospel of John and these three epistles have many similarities...but the main ones that I see are the eternal life that is in Jesus and the love of God that is seen through Jesus and those who believe him. The...
December 25th - Day 359
December 25, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.3 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 25th The Bible reading today is in 2 Peter and Jude. We will start with an introduction to 2 Peter. Since Peter’s first letter, Paul had learned that there were false prophets in the region of Pontus, Galatia, and Capodicea in western Asia Minor north of Lystra and Derbe. Peter wrote the church leaders in that region calling them to be alert to that insidious ploy by Satan to ...
December 24th - Day 358
December 24, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 24th The bible reading today is another pastoral letter...2Timothy. By the time Paul wrote this encouraging letter to the young pastor, Timothy had been pastoring in Ephesus for over 4 years. Timothy received Paul’s first letter some 3 1/2 years before this one. Timothy left his home in Lystra over 10 years before to join Paul on his second and then his third missionary journe...
December 23rd - Day 357
December 23, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.74 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 23rd The bible reading today is in the final chapters of Hebrews...chapters 11, 12, and 13. To this point in our reading, we heard the case that... Jesus is better...and...that is what I'm going to tag Hebrews with...“Jesus is just magnanimously Better than everything else. We read that Jesus was and is greater than Moses. Moses was a rescuer...rescuing Israel from Egyptian bo...
December 22nd - Day 356
December 22, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.7 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 22nd The bible reading is in Hebrews chapters 7-10. Jesus is better. Jesus is a better Priest than Aaron and his line of sons who became High Priests after him. Let us listen... “And the lineage of Aaron indeed have been made priests...as God commanded Moses to bestow the High Priest office upon his brother Aaron and his sons after him. There were many in number...in the hundr...
December 21st - Day 355
December 21, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.61 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 21st The bible reading today is in Hebrews chapters 1-6. 60 years after the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ this letter to the believers on the western front of the spread of the gospel was received and accepted as worthy to be apart of the Biblical record. The authorship of the letter is certainly God, but who he used to pen this scroll is still a mystery. Many ...
December 20th - Day 354
December 20, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.43 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 20th The bible reading today is in the book of 1 Peter. Yes, all five chapters...but it’s worth the read. The apostle Peter wrote to a group of disciples, Jews, and Gentiles, scattered through the northern mountain ranges of Asia...modern-day Turkey. Peter wrote quite a lot about persecution aimed at Christians. By tradition, Peter spent his final years ministering in and aroun...
December 19th - Day 353
December 19, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 19th The bible reading today is in the three chapters of Titus. “To Titus, my true child in a common faith:" No one is absolutely sure about the nature of Titus’ relationship with Paul. Most believe that he was converted to Christ during one of the missionary journeys of Paul. And that he served alongside of Paul on parts of his first missionary journey. However, Paul calls Ti...
December 18th - Day 352
December 18, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.1 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 18th The bible reading today is the book of 1 Timothy...Paul’s first letter to his disciple from Lystra, young Timothy. 1 Timothy along with 2 Timothy and Titus make up Paul’s final letters...we call them the pastoral letters of Paul...offering practical pastoral counsel from the Holy Spirit...to these young pastors. Paul had recruited young Timothy to accompany him on his seco...
December 17th - Day 351
December 17, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 17th The bible reading today is in the four-chapter letter of Paul to the church at Philippi...probably the last of the four prison epistles written during his first imprisonment in Rome. The Prison Epistles from Rome..? Philemon was a letter to a personal friend in the church of Colossae...concerning victory that comes through forgiveness. Colossians was a letter to a church t...
December 16th - Day 350
December 16, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.74 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 16th The bible reading today is Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus. For a brief time at the end of his second missionary journey and for over two years during his third missionary journey, Paul ministered the gospel in Ephesus. Paul wrote this letter about the same time as the letters to Colossae, Philemon, and Philippians...60-61 AD...making them the 4 prison epistles in o...
December 15th - Day 349
December 15, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 15th The bible reading today is in the letters Paul sent to a friend named Philemon, and the church in Colossae. Paul was in his first Roman imprisonment, around 60AD when he wrote these letters. He asked his friend, Tychicus, to deliver the letters for him and take a newly converted slave named Onesimus with him. Onesimus belongs to Philemon’s letter. Onesimus was a runaway s...
December 14th - Day 348
December 14, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.87 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 14th The bible reading today is in Acts 27 and 28. “And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.”
December 13th - Day 347
December 13, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.74 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 13th The bible reading today is in Acts chapters 24-26. We finished yesterday’s reading at the end of the Apostle Paul’s three-year third missionary journey. Eight men joined him on the mission, including Paul’s disciple Timothy. They visited the churches in Galatia again, encouraging the fellow followers of Jesus there. They visited Ephesus again. The church was blessed with ...
December 12th - Day 346
December 12, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.62 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 12th The bible reading today is in Acts chapters 20-23. “After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.”
December 11th - Day 345
December 11, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 11th The bible reading today is in Romans 14-16. Paul closes this letter of Romans with a picture of the church there. Did Paul create a drawing of the building where this church met for worship? No. Paul greeted over twenty people by name that made up the church at Rome. That wasn't all the followers of Christ there, just people that Paul knew. The followers of Christ were the...
December 10th - Day 344
December 10, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 10th The bible reading today is in Romans 11-13. It was Paul’s pattern to start his communication with the churches with solid doctrinal content. Then he usually ended his teaching with exhortations about how to live the Christian life. Dr. Leon Morris, professor, and writer of New Testament commentaries at Oxford University in London believed Paul was showing his readers that ...
December 9th - Day 343
December 09, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.25 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 9th The bible reading today is in Romans 8-10. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
December 8th - Day 342
December 08, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 8th The bible reading today is in Romans 4-7. “What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.”
December 7th - Day 341
December 07, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.74 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 7th The bible reading today is in Romans 1-3 and Acts 20:1-3. Some noteworthy facts about the book of Romans... 1. The writer of the book of Romans was Paul...he wrote it from Corinth during his third missionary journey. 2.The church in Rome was experiencing a season of peace since it would be several years before Ceasar Nero would burn Rome to the ground and blame the followe...
December 6th - Day 340
December 06, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 6th The bible reading today is in 2 Corinthians 10-13. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you...
December 5th - Day 339
December 05, 2020 10:00 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 5th The bible reading for today is in 2 Corinthians 5-9. “For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.”
December 4th - Day 338
December 04, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.84 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 4th The bible reading today is in 2 Corinthians 1-4. By the time Paul wrote this second letter to the disciples in Corinth, most of the issues that had divided the young church had been resolved. However, the years of selfish behavior and false judgments against one another had left deep wounds. So deep that some members of the family probably said that relationships would nev...
December 3rd - Day 337
December 03, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.49 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 3rd Today's Bible reading is in 1 Corinthians 15 & 16. The Apostle Paul finished up his first letter to the young church at Corinth by emphasizing the seriousness and weightiness of the gospel message. There is no other message given under heaven whereby one may be saved from their sins. Therefore, we might struggle with the meanings of the spiritual gifts. We may even debate th...
December 2nd - Day 336
December 02, 2020 10:00 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 2nd The bible reading today is in 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”
December 1st - Day 335
December 01, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 December 1st The bible reading today is in 1 Corinthians chapters 9-11. In our reading today Paul reminds the church that it was God who planted the church in Corinth, and that God used him in that process. But Paul also addressed some church members who had their doubts about him...doubting his leadership and doubting his call from God as an apostle of Christ. Sometimes I forget that P...
November 30th - Day 334
November 30, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.72 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 30th The bible reading today is in 1 Corinthians chapters 5-8. God used Paul to teach the young Corinthian church several things in our reading today. For instance... #1. How was the church to deal with immorality inside the church family? The Holy Spirit led Paul to write his brethren in Corinth...“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a ki...
November 29th - Day 333
November 29, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes - 8.36 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 29th The bible reading today is in 1 Corinthians 1-4. Paul begins his letter to the Corinthian church by reminding who they are in Christ. “To the church of God that is in Corinth,". They are the church of God himself...not the church of any man or organization...but the “church of God". That title trumps any other title that anyone can hang on it. It’s from God...to God...it’s...
November 28th - Day 332
November 28, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.13 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 28th The Bible reading today is in the last half of Acts 18 and all of 19. Paul was still in his second missionary journey and he spent a little over a year in Corinth of Achaia. There he partnered with Aquilla and his wife Pricilla. Tradition says that this couple was a part of the 70 disciples mentioned in Luke 10 that Jesus sent to the towns and cities that he would be visiti...
November 27th - Day 331
November 27, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 27th The bible reading today is 1st and 2nd Thessalonians “We give thanks to God always for all of you (O church of Thessalonica), constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of “faith” and labor of “love” and steadfastness of “hope” 1 Thessalonians 1 Paul wrote this letter and the letter to the Galatians during his second missionar...
November 26th - Day 330
November 26, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 26th The bible reading today is in Acts 17 and 18. We were in Acts chapter 16 three days ago. There, Paul and Silas and young Timothy were on Paul’s second missionary journey. “And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the ni...
November 25th - Day 329
November 25, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.25 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 25th The bible reading today is in Galatians 4-6. Now when we read Galatians, let us keep in mind that most likely some of the recipients of the original letter were apart of the Jew and Gentile mob that stoned the writer, the apostle Paul, just a few years before in Lystra of Galatia. Paul was preaching that the Gentile gods were no gods at all and that the Jewish scribes and ...
November 24th - Day 328
November 24, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 24th The bible reading today is in Galatians 1-3. Galatians is perhaps the first of Paul’s many letters in our New Testaments. And many a scholar dates it in the early ’50s, perhaps during his second or third missionary journey. The primary message of Galatians deals with how a person gets saved...by the works of the law or by faith? Paul says there is “...not another gospel o...
November 23rd - Day 327
November 23, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 23rd The bible reading today is in Acts 15 and 16. Paul and Barnabas spent the better part of three years, 46-48, on their first missionary journey. The church of Galatia was started in the region of Lystra and Derbe. And during their time in Lystra, Paul was stoned by locals...almost killed. And what did Paul do? He convalesced in Derbe for a while and then he and Barnabas...
November 22nd - Day 326
November 22, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 22nd The bible reading today is the five chapter book of James. “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.”
November 21st - Day 325
November 21, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.3 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 21st The bible reading today is in Acts 13 and 14. Paul and Barnabas were on their first missionary journey...having been sent out by the elders of the church at Antioch Syria. Some notable things happened in the beginning of that missionary journey. One had to do with an opportunity to preach the gospel to the governor of the island and to a demon-possessed magician who was o...
November 20th - Day 324
November 20, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.3 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 20th The bible reading today is in Acts 11 and 12. “Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.”
November 19th - Day 323
November 19, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.19 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 19th The bible reading today is in Acts 9 and 10. So who was this Saul that was instrumental in the killing of Stephen...that deacon who was full of grace and power...whom Jesus used to demonstrate the presence and supernatural power of God in and around Jerusalem? “But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them...
November 18th - Day 322
November 18, 2020 10:00 - 3 minutes - 3.54 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 18th The bible reading today is in Acts 7,8. The church in Jerusalem was growing by leaps and bounds. The apostles could not have imagined that the numbers of converts would multiply so rapidly. So how would the apostles handle it? They did two things...They recommitted themselves to the preaching and teaching of God’s Word, as well as to prayer. Then they asked the church ...
November 17th - Day 321
November 17, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 17th The bible reading today is in Acts 4-6. On the day of Pentecost, fifty days after the Ascension of Christ, close to a million Judeans (probably) gathered on the Temple Mount to worship the God who brought forth the fruit of the harvest for them. Peter, by the Holy Spirit, stood and preached the gospel of Christ to the crowd. The Holy Spirit came upon 120 disciples of Jesu...
November 16th - Day 320
November 16, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 6.35 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 16th The bible reading today is in the first three chapters of Acts. “In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.”
November 15th - Day 319
November 15, 2020 10:00 - 6 minutes - 5.53 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 15th The bible reading today is in Luke 24, and John 20 and 21. Jesus had died on a cross just as he said. Jesus was buried in a borrowed tomb just as it was prophesied. And Jesus rose from the dead on the third day just as Christ told his disciples. And over the next 40 days, Jesus showed himself alive to his disciples...to his disciples “only”. In the last chapter of John, th...
November 14th - Day 318
November 14, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 14th The bible reading is in Matthew 28 and Mark 16 today. “And Jesus came and said to his disciples (before his ascension to heaven...) All power is given unto me both in heaven and on earth.”
November 13th - Day 317
November 13, 2020 10:00 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 13th The bible reading today is in Luke 23, and John 18 and 19. “When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.”
November 12th - Day 316
November 12, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.53 MBJoin our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2183117951984132/?source_id=181918175166472 November 12th The Bible reading today is in Matthew 27 and Mark 15. Jesus had been arrested by Temple guards on Thursday night of the Passover Festival. Jesus and his disciples had retreated to the Garden of Gethsemene right after they participated in The Last Supper. When the guards asked who the leader was, Jesus said “I am!” ... God Almighty. And immediately the hundreds of Temple gu...