Saturday 10th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 7:10-17 Matthew 8:23-34, Matthew 9:1-13 Genesis 21, Genesis 22, Genesis 23 GENESIS 21, 22, and 23 Today’s reading is all about Births, Deaths, and Marriages! And about faith and failure too. At the end of yesterday’s readings (Genesis 21) Abraham, out of fear, repeated the same lie about his wife (not being his wife)…
Friday 9th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 7:1-9 Matthew 7:24-29, Matthew 8:1-22 Genesis 19, Genesis 20:1-18 MATTHEW 8 All in a day’s work, it would seem! Everything in a frenetic Chapter 8 seems to have occurred within 24 hours. First a leper demonstrated the faith to ask for healing: “If you are willing, you can make me clean” (v2). That…
Apologies!
The audio readings for today, the 8 January were incorrect (and simply repeated 7th January’s readings). I have pasted the correct ones underneath… Audio readings: Proverbs 1:8-19 Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 7:1-23 Genesis 17, Genesis 18
Thursday 8th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 6 Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 6:1-24 Genesis 14, Genesis 15, Genesis 16 MATTHEW 7 Jesus was especially against hypocrisy. He hated outward righteousness blended with inward corruption. He was particularly offended by those who criticised others whilst doing even worse things themselves. The hyperbole of attempting to remove a speck from someone else’s eye, whilst…
Wednesday 7th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 6 Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 6:1-24 Genesis 14, Genesis 15, Genesis 16 MATTHEW 6 It is the curse of short-termism! It is a sign of immaturity… The need to have it all now! We see it every day: the credit card that ‘takes the waiting out of wanting’; the relationship where instant sexual gratification is…
Tuesday 6th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 5:1-12 Matthew 5:21-42 Genesis 11:10-32, Genesis 12, Genesis 13 GENESIS 11, 12, and 13 “Abraham: The Man of Faith and the Friend of God”. We now begin to see the fulfilment of Deuteronomy 32:9 (see yesterday’s notes) though the life of Abraham. But is goes further than this: indeed it is hard to…
Monday 5th January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 4:1-8 Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 5:1-20 Genesis 9:18-29, Genesis 10, Genesis 11:1-9 MATTHEW 5 Moses climbed up the mountainside and sat while God dictated the Ten Commandments and the law to him, for the benefit of his people. Here in Matthew, the author is portraying Jesus as the Great King, giving his own teaching to…
Sunday 4th January 2026
Audio readings: Proverbs 1:1-7 Matthew 4:1-22 Genesis 7, Genesis 8, Genesis 9:1-17 MATTHEW 4 These days, after a baptism, everyone usually sits down to a relaxing celebratory meal with friends and family. Not so for Jesus! The very next thing was that the Spirit of God ‘drove him’ into the Judean wilderness to be tested or…
Saturday 3rd January 2026 – Bonus!
Hi Readers! I hope you are enjoying the notes you receive each day on the ‘Bible In One Year’ readings – and obviously I hope you are benefitting from the readings themselves! A couple of points of information that I didn’t make earlier today in the regular post: Andy.
Saturday 3rd January 2026
Audio readings: Psalm 3:1-8 Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 3 Genesis 4:17-26, Genesis 5, Genesis 6 MATTHEW 3 John the Baptist represents the ‘tipping point’ between Old and New Covenants. He was the final Old Covenant prophet, whose job was to ‘close’ that covenant and open the new one, by introducing the Messiah. In a sense, his whole ministry…
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