At Gracepoint, devotion time will take place in one of three formats, depending on the day of the week.

Monday to Thursday
For each weekday, from Monday to Thursday,
- Read the assigned text several times
- Do Inductive Bible Study using the questions and prompts provided in the downloadable packet
- Personal Reflection based on the questions in the packet.

Friday
Read [...]

At Gracepoint, devotion time will take place in one of three formats, depending on the day of the week.

Monday to Thursday
For each weekday, from Monday to Thursday,
- Read the assigned text several times
- Do Inductive Bible Study using the questions and prompts provided in the downloadable packet
- Personal Reflection based on the questions in the packet.

Friday
Read [...]

At Gracepoint, devotion time will take place in one of three formats, depending on the day of the week.

Monday to Thursday
For each weekday, from Monday to Thursday,
- Read the assigned text several times
- Do Inductive Bible Study using the questions and prompts provided in the downloadable packet
- Personal Reflection based on the questions in the packet.

Friday
Read [...]

vv.2-3 “Blindness to the truth takes many forms, and those closest to Jesus do not have an advantage in understanding who he is. They are perplexed about the source of Jesus’ wisdom and deeds and ask themselves (6:2b), “What’s this wisdom that has been given him… ?” […] The question assumes that wisdom has been [...]

vv.1-16
“Jesus typically fends off his opponents by going on the counterattack. When the Pharisees ask whether divorce is lawful, he asks them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ This rejoinder recasts the issue from a hypothetical debate about some unspecified husband to a command directed to them. It also exposes a fatal flaw in the Pharisees’ [...]

Mark 15-16 Commentary
vv.1-5: “It is from Luke that we learn how deep and determined the bitter malice of the Jews was. As we have seen, the charge at which they had arrived was one of blasphemy, of insulting God. But that was not the charge on which they brought Jesus before Pilate. They knew well [...]

Here is the recommended personal devotions schedule.

Monday to Thursday
For each weekday, from Monday to Thursday,
- Read the assigned text several times
- Do Inductive Bible Study using the questions and prompts provided in the downloadable packet
- Personal Reflection based on the questions in the packet.

Friday to Sunday
Read the assigned Old Testament passage.

Bible Passages for June 14-20, 2010
Monday [...]

Submitted by Gary Chang, Gracepoint Hsinchu.
In this introductory passage of Ephesians, Paul uses a number of related words in describing the course of God’s unfolding His salvation plan, from the creation of the world to the future.  In verse 4, it says that He “chose” us before the beginning of the world to be holy [...]