Day Eighty-Nine: John 20 / Revelation 20 + 21

"God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more, neither shall there be anguish (sorrow and mourning) nor grief nor pain any more, for the old conditions and the former order of things have passed away ( Read more... )

Day Eighty-Eight: John 19 / Revelation 18 + 19

This morning I have been struck by the willingness of the Pharisees to go against God in order to see Jesus killed.

"But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered." (John 19:15 ( Read more... )

Day Eighty-Four: John 15:1-25 / Revelation 10 + 11

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. - John 15:9 ( Read more... )

Day Eighty-Two: John 13 / Revelation 6 + 7I thought it was great that God has orchestrated it so we read one of the chapters that depicts the last meal Jesus had with his best friends on the day that we remember that last meal. I think this has been one of my favourite things about reading the New Testament in 90 days - I couldn't plan for this ( Read more... )

Day Eighty-One: John 12 / Revelation 4 + 5In Revelation 4 there are 24 elders who have gold crowns*. Jesus is enthroned in the centre and he is surrounded by a few creatures who speak praise and adoration to him. It says "day and night they never stop". Whenever these living creatures give glory, honour and thanks to Jesus the 24 elders fall down ( Read more... )

Day Eighty: John 11 / Revelation 2 + 3

"I've been thinking how you wept for Lazarus,
Tears on your cheeks, resurrection on your lips."- My Epic ( Read more... )

Day Seventy-Nine: John 10 / Revelation 1

There seems to be a lot about his voice in today's two chapters:

1. One of the most important things that I have discovered during my life is that I can hear the voice of God: "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can ( Read more... )

Day Seventy-Eight: John 9 / Jude 1I restrung my guitar a few days ago. Embarrassingly, it was the first time I had replaced the strings since January 2011. Usually my D string snaps and then I restring them all but it hadn't snapped (it was incredibly frayed though). Anyway, for months I have been playing these dull, slightly out of tune, dirty, ( Read more... )

Day Seventy-Five: John 6 / 1 John 2 + 3

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires ( Read more... )

Day Sixty-Nine: Luke 24 / James 5

"This is what is written: the Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you ( Read more... )