Day 14: I'm still here!

Well, It's a good thing my plan was to "read the whole Bible in a year" and not "to read the Bible everyday for a year!" Otherwise, I'd be seriously off-track!  I'm going back to school for Residential Design & Planning and right now I'm enrolled in a Basic Drafting class.  Killer workload!  I was up past my bedtime 4 nights last week!  (One night til 1:30am!) I finished my work for last week and have started to get a jump on this week, so I'm coming back to my Bible reading for a bit.
Today we're looking at Day 14:  Genesis 11:27-31
This talks about Terah, who was Noah's great, great, great, great, great, great grandson. (I think that's the right # of greats!)  Terah was Abram's father.  It mentions here that he is also the grandfather of Lot.  I'm not familiar with Terah, but I do know who Abram and Lot are!  It also mentions here that Abram's wife was Sarai.  I know who she is too!
That was a short one!  Day 15 will be longer!

Day 12 & 13 Why Can't We Be Friends?

Day 12:  Genesis 11:1-26- This starts with the story of the tower of Babel.  These people made bricks and were building a city with a tower that reached up to the heavens.  11:5 It says, "God came down."  So we are still seeing evidence of God on earth.  11:6 God said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them."  Isn't this true of about any group that gets along and works cohesively together?  Nothing can stop them.  Think of "the church".  I don't mean my church or your church specifically--but the church as a whole, all the representatives of the kingdom of God- can you imagine if we all worked together for the good of the Lord?  As Nicky Gumbel, a vicar in the Church of England and speaker for the Alpha program said about the different denominations, "What unites us is far greater than what divides us."  Imagine if we all concentrated on that.  Anyway--God confused their language and scattered them over the earth.

Verses 10-26 are the lineage of Shem, Noah's son, down to Abraham
Day 13: 1 Chronicles 1:24-27- A recap of the lineage of Shem

Day 8- Day 11 More of the lineage of Noah

Day 8 was yesterday.  I read but I didn't post- the reading was 1 Chronicles 1:8-16 which was basically a recap on the lineage of Noah.  Not much to say accept that that Nimrod guy really made an impression.  Both here and in Genesis it mentions that "he grew to be a mighty warrior" where there is no description for any of the others.

Today's reading:  Genesis 10:21-30

This is more of the lineage of Noah.

For Day 10:   1 Chronicles 1:17-23- an exact duplicate of the reading for Day 9.

Day 11:  Just a summation that, yep, these were Noah's sons. 

So, yeah.  I read ahead.  I'll see you back here for Day 12 on or around April 7th!

Day 7: An Easy One!

Today's reading is Genesis 10:6-20

Genesis 10:8 "Cush was the father of Nimrod"  Hmmm....Nimrod...I wonder why no one uses that name anymore...

Today's reading was a little on the begatting side, but I did notice something.  This was showing the lineage of Noah through his son Ham down to whole populations like the Hittites and Canaanites.  Ham's descendants populated Sodom & Gomorah.  So while Noah "walked with God", it looks like not all of his ancestors stayed so close! 

That's all I've got for today! 
I'll add a picture today for visual interest.  This is the Reading Pagoda in Reading, PA.

Day 6- I got nothin'!

Today's reading:  1 Chronicles 1:5-7--Begatting down Noah's line!  I'm gonna take a much needed rest!  See you tomorrow!