‘The Big Picture’ Daily Notes

Sunday 22nd March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 36:1-12     Luke 4:14-37     Numbers 13:26-33, Numbers 14  NUMBERS 14 Democracy only takes you so far!  Many times it actually holds you back.  The problem that Moses created by choosing a representative from each tribe to explore the land was that when ten of them rejected the will of God, all their tribal relatives…

Saturday 21st March 2026

Audio readings:  Proverbs 7:21-27     Luke 3:23-38, Luke 4:1-13     Numbers 11:4-35, Numbers 12, Numbers 13:1-25  LUKE 4 “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread”.  (v3).  “The Devil led him to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world…’I will give you all their authority and splendour……

Friday 20th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 35:19-28     Luke 3:1-22     Numbers 9:15-23, Numbers 10, Numbers 11:1-3  LUKE 3 Read the first couple of verses… For the third chapter in a row, Luke wants to anchor these key events firmly in a historical context and so he links the lives of seven famous people of the time to the emergence of…

Thursday 19th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 35:11-18     Luke 2:41-52     Numbers 7:66-89, Numbers 8, Numbers 9:1-14  NUMBERS 8, 9 and 10 The Holy of Holies (or ‘Most Holy Place’) had no man-made light in it.  On the one hand, it wasn’t necessary, since no human was allowed in there; on the other hand, the glory of God filled that tent,…

Wednesday 18th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 35:1-10     Luke 2:21-40     Numbers 7:1-65  NUMBERS 7 Well, now I know where they got the idea for “The Twelve Days of Christmas”!  Numbers 7 is the longest chapter in the Pentateuch (89 verses) and it benefits hugely from the copy-and-paste facilities that a word processor now provides.  Twelve representatives of the twelve…

Tuesday 17th March 2026

Audio readings:  Proverbs 7:6-20     Luke 2:1-20     Numbers 5:11-31, Numbers 6:1-27  LUKE 2 “She gave birth to her firstborn, a son.  She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger” (v7). At his birth, she wrapped him in strips of cloth and placed him in a manger.  Much later, at his death, she was present…

Monday 16th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 34:11-22     Luke 1:57-80     Numbers 4, Numbers 5:1-10  NUMBERS 4 Then these three branches of Levites were counted again – this time for all the men between thirty to fifty years old, who would serve at the tabernacle.  Previously, every male had been counted for the purposes of redemption, and the total had…

Sunday 15th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 34:1-10     Luke 1:39-56     Numbers 2:10-34, Numbers 3  NUMBERS 2 and 3 As well as individuals, there was a careful arrangement of each clan in their encampment around the tabernacle.  Three camps to the East, under the authority of Judah, three to the South, under Reuben, three to the West under Ephraim, and…

Saturday 14th March 2026

Audio readings:  Psalm 33:12-22     Luke 1:26-38     Numbers 1, Numbers 2:1-9  NUMBERS 1 The Book of Numbers covers a period of 38 years and 9 months, most of which was a complete waste of time!  The actual distance to the Promised Land could have been covered in a matter of weeks or months at the most. …

Friday 13th March 2026

Audio readings:  Proverbs 7:1-5     Luke 1:1-25     Leviticus 26:14-46, Leviticus 27  LUKE 1 “…since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught” (vv3-4). The ‘Good News’ must be accurate and historically…

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