Coffee With The Lord

The Bible reading plan I authored many years ago (and many of you have used) – “Necessary Food” – now has a “revised version” – I just completed it!  It is unique for several reasons…

• First of all, it focuses on “passages” (natural units of Scripture) as much as possible – not strict chapter boundaries or an arbitrary number of verses.
• Next, you read a passage from each of the major divisions of Scripture daily (thus not getting bogged down and discouraged in “genealogies” 😉 (OT historical books, Biblical poetry, prophetic literature, NT historical books, and the epistles)
• Finally, following the plan you finish reading the Bible in a year.

It’s available to you (and your ministry or church) at no charge… Simply email me at leroybartel@gmail.com and I’ll send you a pdf copy of the plan.  (If you decide to use it/reproduce it for your church or ministry I simply request you include the copyright statement when you reproduce it).

Blessings as you read God’s word daily and make it you “Spiritual Necessary Food” (it contains all the Spiritual “MDR – Minimum Daily Requirements” you need!!!

LeRoy R. Bartel, DMin

I’m an early riser and delight in seeing the dawning of a new day… the sunrise for me is a sign of hope!

There is a dawning that exceeds them all, however – the dawn that occurred when Jesus, the “Light of the World,” was born! Here is how John expressed it… “In the beginning was the Word,, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS CANNOT OVERCOME IT!” (From John 1:1-5 ESV)

Hey, He changed my darkness to LIGHT that cannot be put out! He became (and IS) the dawning of a new day – The LIGHT OF MY LIFE!!! Merry Christmas!!!

Just a reminder during this Christmas season… When the “Kingdom of Heaven” broke into time and space and invaded the “world stage” in the person of Jesus Christ, it didn’t happen in a “religious capitol” – Jerusalem, or the powerful political center of the time, Rome… instead the “King of kings and Lord of lords” came in a humble stable (there was no room elsewhere) in a little “insignificant” town (check out Micah 5:2 and Matthew 2:3-6)… He was “the Bethlehem babe” …

Nothing really has changed… The Messiah’s presence and the revelation of the “Lord of all” comes to the humble, the seemingly insignificant and those receptive by faith (check out 1 Corinthians 1:18-31)… “The Kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Revelation 11:15ff)