Milestone

Beloved Children of God,

This morning we concluded I Samuel in Morning Worship. Matt mentioned that he thought we were almost half way through the chapters in the Bible. I went back and calculated all of the expository sermon series I have done. By preaching I Samuel 31 I have now preached through 595 chapters of the Bible. That is the exact 50% mark! Funny how the Lord providentially brought that to my attention today.

I was recently reading a mild criticism of expository preaching on the grounds that it is designed to give the whole counsel of God to people, but almost never delivers on the promise, since preachers so rarely get through the whole Bible over the course of their entire preaching ministries. That is true. One of the reasons for that lack: We do not have the pattern of daily preaching in our day that we find in Acts 2 or in the ministry of men like Calvin and Whitefield.

If you are committed to preaching through books of the Bible and you preach 1 chapter per day for about 40 weeks per year, you can preach through the Bible in six years.

One other thought: After preaching through exactly half of the Bible, I have such a settled conviction that it is all about Christ, the cross, and the resurrection. I am grateful to God for the cross of Jesus, and for His righteousness alone that saves sinners - displayed so convincingly in his rising from the dead. Books like the Psalms make no sense unless we understand about the imputed righteousness of Christ alone that Paul so clearly speaks of in Romans.

Every Blessing in Christ,
Pastor Magee