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1 Timothy 6:6-10 Your Money or Your Life

Submitted by tcblack on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 9:01am
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Snare: Tacuina sanitatis (XIV century)

Being a bit of a word-fiend I get one of those word-a-day emails
1in my email box every day... and I actually read it. This week Ifound a goldmine: pleonexia (pli-uh-nek-see-uh) It means “insatiable covetousness.” It is in my opinion one of the most defining words for America today. In fact I see way too much pleonexia in my ownlife not to mention in the lives of those around me. This should not be.

This morning I want us to look together into 1 Timothy 6:6-10 so that we can learn how to really have it all – by merely being content with what we have.

Day 8-12 With the Literary ESV

Submitted by tcblack on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 9:00am
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ESV Literary Study Bible

Well it's not because I didn't read but because I couldn't read. It's Thursday morning and till now I've had no internet since last Friday. Our local service provider's antenna got hit by lighting the second week in a row out here. I guess when you put an antenna on top of the co-op's tallest bin you're just begging for a lighting strike.

The end result, on top of missing the fact that I was linked on the ESV blog is that I'm unintentionally three days behind. Well enough of that, Tallyho!

Let's do Judges and 1 Samuel today and Psalms 60-75.
Plus, to mix things up a bit, I'm going to start with the Psalms Today. From a cry for deliverance to cries of victory the Psalms resound with faith in the midst of struggle. Surely as on preacher said, there is no life situation which the Psalms fail to encounter and encourage us. Perhaps the crown of today's reading in the Psalms comes from PS 64:10.

Let the Righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!
-Psalm 64:10

All in all these fifteen Psalms, while they encompass a variety of literary types they center around the theme of salvation as echoed most strongly in the 68th Psalm.

Our God is a God of salvation,
oand to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
-Ps 68:20 ESV

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