• Church Life

    An Unlikely Palace

    One of my goals each year is to read through the Bible. I try to do it in different ways, however, and this year I am reading theĀ One-Year Bible, which gives a passage each day from the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs. I like using this reading method every few years to help me not “jump ahead” in my mind, like I often do when reading cover-to-cover. Anyway, yesterday I made a mistake in my reading, but it caused me to do a lot of thinking. I was reading Mark’s account of the crucifixion of Jesus. I try to read slowly and basically “mentally sound-out” the words…