http://timgoldsmith.com/archives/2010/01/tbcap Just another WordPress site Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://timgoldsmith.com/archives/2010/01/tbcap#comment-1411 Donna Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:15:00 +0000 http://timgoldsmith.com/?p=644#comment-1411 <p>Hi Tim, Happy new year! I've just bought a very small Bible in One Year - all laid out nicely in daily readings. I have a similar resolution to read it every day (but since I just bought it today I already have a day to catch up...) I wonder if the difference between being Pharisaical and doing something out of duty is whether you impose it on others. It's not Pharisaical to do something good even if your emotions aren't in it, but it can be if you dictate to others that they should do the same as you. No?</p> Hi Tim, Happy new year! I’ve just bought a very small Bible in One Year – all laid out nicely in daily readings. I have a similar resolution to read it every day (but since I just bought it today I already have a day to catch up…) I wonder if the difference between being Pharisaical and doing something out of duty is whether you impose it on others. It’s not Pharisaical to do something good even if your emotions aren’t in it, but it can be if you dictate to others that they should do the same as you. No?

]]> http://timgoldsmith.com/archives/2010/01/tbcap#comment-1410 Amy Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:46:13 +0000 http://timgoldsmith.com/?p=644#comment-1410 <p>I use the Robert Murray M'Cheyne plan <a href="http://hippocampusextensions.com/mcheyneplan/" rel="nofollow">http://hippocampusextensions.com/mcheyneplan/</a> I read the whole Bible over two years as I find that it is too hard to catch up four chapters per day if you get a little behind but two chapters are fine. I too struggle with the whole duty/Pharisee issue but feel, in the end, that reading the Bible is always going to be better than not reading it, whatever the motivation. If we wait for right motives we'll never do anything good.</p> I use the Robert Murray M’Cheyne plan http://hippocampusextensions.com/mcheyneplan/ I read the whole Bible over two years as I find that it is too hard to catch up four chapters per day if you get a little behind but two chapters are fine. I too struggle with the whole duty/Pharisee issue but feel, in the end, that reading the Bible is always going to be better than not reading it, whatever the motivation. If we wait for right motives we’ll never do anything good.

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