Digging Deeper Daily: By Daily Bible Reading PodcastSample

GENESIS 20-21:
In chapter 19 of Genesis we heard what happened to Lot and his daughters after being saved from Sodom. The sons of Lot’s daughters became the ancestors of the Moabite and Ammonite races who were always at war with God’s people.

JOB 11:
In chapter 10, Job accused God,

Job 10:13 GNT But now I know that all that time [since birth]
you were secretly planning to harm me.
14 You were watching to see if I would sin,
so that you could refuse to forgive me.
15 As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you,
but when I do right, I get no credit.
I am miserable and covered with shame.

MARK 7:
In yesterday's reading in Mark 6 Jesus fed 5,000+ and walked on water.

In today’s reading, I would like to challenge each of my listeners to dig deeper to find a spiritual gem behind Jesus’ seemingly harsh and impolite first answer to the Syro-Phoenician woman. I encourage you to ask what right anyone (and especially any Gentile) would have to come to Jesus and ask for a miracle. With that question in mind, I encourage you to read all of Ephesians chapter 2.

Choose a good Bible version for your reading this year!
I recommend that you choose a good meaning-based translation for your daily devotional Bible reading this year— rather than one of the literal versions. However, please open a literal version also whenever you have time for in-depth study. Here’s the difference:

The advantage of a literal translation is that it
gives you a word-for-word view into the form of the
original. The disadvantage of literal translations is
that they cannot give you the meaning in clear and
natural English.

• The advantage of a meaning-based translation is that
  it gives you the meaning of the text in clear, natural
  English.
• The disadvantage of the meaning-based
  translation is that they cannot show you the word-for-word form
  of the original text.

We need both kinds of translations! Use both kinds when you are doing in-depth study. But for devotional reading, my top choices are the New Living Translation and the Good News Bible. These meaning-based translations will help you be successful in reading the Bible in a year, because the text is so much easier to understand. Both have good scholarly backing and are reliable.