MONTHS: January and February THEME: 60-Day Overview of the Bible This week’s daily readings: Sunday, January 15: Exodus 32:1-35 ………………………….. The Golden Calf Monday, January 16: Numbers 20:1-29 ………………………….. Moses’ Mistake Tuesday, January 17: Joshua 1:1-18 & 3:1-17 …………………….. Joshua Takes Command Wednesday, January 18: Joshua 8:1-35 & 11:1-23 …………………Conquest Thursday, January 19: Judges 6:1-7:25 ……………………………. Gideon Friday, January 20: Judges 13:1-25 & 16:1-31 …………………………… Samson Saturday, January 21: First Samuel 1:1-28 & 16:1-31 ……………………. The Call of Samuel Note: This series has been adapted from Zondervan, as published at http://alextran.org/2007/11/25/23-bible-reading-plans-that-will-satisfy-anyone/.

At Lebanon Road, we have spent a lot of time in prayer recently for a wonderful five-year-old boy. Blake Rader was diagnosed last week with a brain tumor, and underwent an 8-hour surgery last Friday. Dozens of people came to the hospital to be with his parents, Michael and Connie, and the outpouring of love through prayer, notes, online messages, and other acts of kindness has been nothing short of amazing. Yesterday, Blake had to go back to the ER here in Nashville with more difficulties. He and his parents spent the night at Vanderbilt Children’s hospital, awaiting more results from more tests. If you want to know more of…

This link couldn’t wait for our monthly roundup. My friend Neal Pollard shares a tremendous story that every parent must prayerfully read. http://preacherpollard.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-best-play-was-not-even-on-the-field/ Parents…it makes you think, doesn’t it?

MONTHS: January and February THEME: 60-Day Overview of the Bible This week’s daily readings: Sunday, January 8: Genesis 32:1-33:20 ……………….. Brothers Reunite Monday, January 9: Genesis 37:1-36 & 41:1-57 ……………… Joseph in Egypt Tuesday, January 10: Genesis 42:1-38 & 45:1-28 ……………… Family Reunion Wednesday, January 11: Exodus 2:1-3:22 …………………. Moses Introduced Thursday, January 12: Exodus 12:1-42 & 13:17-14:31 ………………… The Exodus Friday, January 13: Exodus 15:22-17:16 ………………….. In the Wilderness Saturday, January 14: Exodus 20:1-21 ……………………. The 10 Commandments   Note: This series has been adapted from Zondervan, as published at http://alextran.org/2007/11/25/23-bible-reading-plans-that-will-satisfy-anyone/.

I don’t do very many “odds and ends” posts, but I have a few short notes to share, so I thought I’d empty the file. Enjoy! 1. Lebanon Road is now on Twitter! If you want to follow what’s going on at Lebanon Road, just follow @lrcoc at this link: https://twitter.com/#!/lrcoc We will update with news and notes every so often, and are encouraging our members to follow this via text message. 2. This Sunday, January 8, is the last day for guys ages 20-33 in Middle Tennessee to apply for the mentoring program I outlined earlier this week. If you did not see that post, click here. 3. We rarely put…

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures exclude them.” C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

Tonight after our evening services at Lebanon Road, I met with our young adult men, ages 20-33. At that meeting, I told them the substance of this post, and also that this was going live on the blog tonight. To get to the point: I’m beginning a Christian mentoring program for young adult men, and I want you to know about it. The program is one year in length, and will be a time of true Christian growth and maturity. While I know it is somewhat rare to “publicize” such a group, I have to start this somewhere. My prayer is that it is a success and “word of mouth”…

MONTHS: January & February THEME: 60-Day Overview of the Bible This week’s daily readings: Sunday, January 1:  Genesis 1:1-2:25 …………… Creation Monday, January 2: Genesis 3:1-24 ……………. Mankind Falls into Sin Tuesday, January 3: Genesis 6:1-8:22 …………….. The Flood Wednesday, January 4: Genesis 12:1-5, 18:1-15, 17:1-22 & 22:1-7 ………….. God’s Promise to Abraham Thursday, January 5: Genesis 18:16-19:29 ………………. Sodom and Gomorrah Friday, January 6: Genesis 24:1-67 ………………. Isaac’s Love for Rebekah Saturday, January 7: Genesis 25:19-34 & 27:1-40 …………. Jacob and Esau’s Dissension   Note: This series has been adapted from Zondervan, as published at http://alextran.org/2007/11/25/23-bible-reading-plans-that-will-satisfy-anyone/.

Welcome to 2012! At Lebanon Road, we are emphasizing our theme of “Back to Basics: Where are Your Roots?” One of the ways we are striving to do that is to encourage people to spend time in the Bible, but in a different way than we often do. Most congregations encourage members to read through the Bible word-for-word in some fashion (cover-to-cover, chronologically, etc.). That is a worthy goal, but we are trying something different. Since we are emphasizing basic Bible knowledge, we are giving our members several readings to do through the year. Each of these is short, but emphasized a particular part of the Bible for just a…

“The relationship between grace and works will always be somewhat of a mystery to man. It seems that this is an intentional part of God’s plan to test human hearts and prove the sincerity of faith. There is a special chemistry between grace and works that keeps a man striving while preventing him from despairing. It is not a question of doing enough but of bringing one’s heart into submission to God. Heaven is not a hall of fame for spiritual superstars. God wants surrender, not statistics.” Aubrey Johnson Spiritual Patriots, pages 31-32