Coffee With The Lord

Many of you are aware of the Facebook group I host entitled “Coffee with the Lord” (it is also available as a WordPress blog – coffeewiththelord.com, and on Twitter @coffeewithlord). In the past “Coffee with the Lord” has largely featured almost daily devotional reflections from my Bible reading.

With the release and revision, however, of my daily Bible reading plan, “Necessary Food,” I have felt led (and have been encouraged) to devote “Coffee with the Lord” almost exclusively to my devotional reflections on selected passages from the “Necessary Food” Bible reading plan.

The result will be a kind of marriage between “Coffee with the Lord” and the “Necessary Food” Bible reading plan. I think that you that are using the Bible reading plan may find this very helpful and uplifting. Be watching for it beginning January 1 2021. Not every passage from the five daily Bible reading will be featured but at least one will.

If you have not gotten your free pdf copy of the revised “Necessary Food” Bible reading plan yet, do not hesitate to request one via e-mail (leroybartel@gmail.com).

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!!!