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Commuter Bible NT

John Ross

Commuter Bible NT is a work-week audio Bible reading plan to match your weekly schedule. In five days a week, Monday-Friday, you can listen to the entire New Testament over the course of a year. We even break on holidays! Subscribe today and get more of God's Word in your daily life. Part of the Commuter Bible family of podcasts, using the Christian Standard Bible translation (CSB). Learn more at www.commuterbible.org

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Friday · 6 min
1 Timothy 5
Practical problems in ministry call for practical answers based on good theology. In today’s reading, Paul helps Timothy and his church navigate the practical matter of supporting widows. In summary, his conclusion is that widows with family members should be supported by their family but widows who are devoted to the Lord and are truly in need should receive help from the church. He goes on to consider what it looks like to support good leaders. The phrase “the elders who are good leaders” can
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Thursday · 4 min
1 Timothy 4
Paul warns that some people will depart from the faith and begin teaching things that are contrary to Scripture. In order to be equipped and ready to fend off such falsehood, Timothy, as well as the church he shepherds, should train themselves in godliness. This comes from being nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching of the church. Is training in physical fitness beneficial? Sure, but only in limited ways; spiritual fitness, on the other hand, is beneficial in every way and wo
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Wednesday · 7 min
1 Timothy 2-3
Paul instructs Timothy and the church to pray for everyone including kings and those who are in authority. Given that Paul was imprisoned and mistreated regularly by these in authority, we should mark that such admonition doesn’t come lightly. For the sake of the gospel going forward, Paul wants the church to pray and to conduct themselves in a manner that reflects order and appropriate forms of submission and authority. This includes relationships between men and women in the church, and appoin
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Tuesday · 5 min
1 Timothy 1
In today’s episode we’ll being reading Paul’s first letter Timothy, the young man who worked alongside Paul during some of his missionary journeys, serving as his protégé in pastoral ministry. The two are now separated and Timothy is in a season of life where he is shepherding a church. He advises his son in the faith to address those in the church who teach, or who believe, false doctrine, warning especially about those things that are opposed to the Gospel and are speculative, divisive, and fr
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August 24 · 5 min
Philippians 4
Lest we forget that Paul is writing a real letter to a real local church with real people, today’s passage begins with practical counsel concerning two ladies who can’t seem to agree with one another. These women have contended for the gospel along with Paul, and he urges them to be united in Christ. He encourages the church at large to rejoice at all times and to pray without ceasing, thanking God for his gifts even while making prayer requests known. He also urges the church to let minds dwell
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August 21 · 5 min
Philippians 3
Paul warns the church at Philippi to beware of the dogs, and no, he’s not talking about puppies or pack animals, he’s talking about those Judaizers who say you must be circumcised in order to be a follower of Jesus. If anybody had reason to boast in the Jewish-ness, it was Paul, and in today’s chapter he gives an extensive list of his Jewish commendations. He places no trust in these fleshly accomplishments, however, as his goal is only to know Jesus and the power of his resurrection. He is quic
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August 20 · 6 min
Philippians 2
Even within the church, humility and unity don’t come easy, but even so, Paul wants to see the church at Philippi to be united in their thinking, int their love, in spirit, and in purpose. There’s a lot of heart-work involved in serving one another with Christlike love, and Paul admonishes the church to meditate on Christ’s humility as inspiration for humility. The church ought to shine like stars in the world, bringing light to the dark through blameless and pure conduct. As examples, Paul puts
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August 19 · 6 min
Philippians 1
During his second missionary journey, Paul travelled through the city of Philippi and planted a church there. As is evident from the opening chapter of Philippians, Paul had a deep love for this congregation and he has no trouble expressing his affection. His occasion for writing is to inform them about the details of his imprisonment, and even in such circumstances, Paul’s mind and heart are focused on the gospel of Christ going forward. He springboards from reflections on dying for the sake of
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August 18 · 5 min
Ephesians 6
At the end of our last reading, Paul was admonishing husbands and wives to love each other in a way that reflects the relationship between Christ and his church. Today, we pick up where we left off as Paul admonishes children to obey their parents in the Lord, for this is right. As mentioned in our intro to Philemon, the relationship between slaves and masters during this time period was closer to that of modern-day contract labor. With this in mind, slaves are instructed to obey their masters,
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August 17 · 6 min
Ephesians 5
Paul continues to admonish the Ephesian church to live a new life in Christ, a life that is distinct from the rest of the world. The Christian ought not to partner with those who are disobedient. Instead of walking in their darkness, as we once all formerly walked, we should instead walk as children of light. To do this, we must pay attention to our daily walk, growing in our understanding of the Lord’s will, giving thanks to God, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. Continuing in th
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August 14 · 6 min
Ephesians 4
If you’re a part of a healthy church, you know that unity and fellowship is God’s good gift to the saints, but that gift doesn’t come without effort. Paul urges the Ephesian church to make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. This kind of work doesn’t fall only to those who have titles within the church; the ascended Christ has blessed the whole church with gifts of varying kinds to strengthen and equip the entire church body for the work of ministry. In Christ
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August 13 · 4 min
Ephesians 3
Here in chapter 3, Paul uses the word “mystery” again and again, so be gracious and allow me to reveal and clarify what the word mystery means in this sense. We often to refer to that which is unknown to be a mystery, but that’s only a partial definition. Technically, a mystery is something that was once hidden but is now revealed. In this case, the mystery is that God’s plan was to redeem both Israel and the rest of the world through the Messiah, a plan that was once hidden but has now been rev
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August 12 · 5 min
Ephesians 2
Most of us do not like to think about death, especially when we think about our own death. While all men will die one day in the future, Paul turns this concept on its head by saying that all men start off as dead men. In this case, however, they are spiritually dead. In his extravagant grace and mercy, God, who is very much alive, brings lifeless souls to new life in Christ. Paul goes out of his way to say that it is by grace we have been saved, through faith and not of works. In other words, y
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August 11 · 5 min
Ephesians 1
After a standard greeting to the church at Ephesus, Paul seems to overflow with joy and thanksgiving over the rich blessings of God offered to the believer through the gospel. The entire passage seems to effervesce with gratitude and jubilant praise. Notice, too, how much of this is centered on Christ and on God the Father. God is the main actor of the passage; in other words, it is God’s work for God’s glory. We’ll hear the phrase “in Him” repeatedly, and three members of the triune Godhead are
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August 10 · 5 min
Philemon
At the end of Colossians, Paul mentioned a man named Onesimus as a beloved brother in the work of ministry. This brother, Onesimus, was a slave to Philemon, and Paul writes to Philemon to ask if he could be freed. Many in slavery in this day and age were enslaved voluntarily as means by which they could repay debt. Once that debt was paid or the years of service to which they agreed came to an end, that person would be freed. Onesimus had been helping Paul, presumably by helping him to get what
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August 7 · 4 min
Colossians 4
Paul’s letter to the church at Colossae concludes with admonition to speak with God regularly in prayer, and to speak graciously with others, acting wisely toward outsiders who do not yet know the mystery of Christ revealed through his gospel. After this, he includes a summary about the ministry of the gospel being performed through other faithful men. These include Tychicus and Onesimus who are delivering the letter, Aristarchus, who is also in prison with Paul, as well as Mark, Barnabas, Justu
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August 6 · 6 min
Colossians 3
Paul has positioned Christ rightly as the one who is before all things, and in whom all things hold together. All things were created by him, through him, and for him. This same Christ humbled himself to death on a cross so that our debt our sin might be canceled. In doing so, he disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly, triumphing over them. With this as his preface, Paul tells the church to seek the things that are above, where Christ is, who rests in victory and in auth
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August 5 · 6 min
Colossians 2
Having reminded the church of the preeminent Christ, He who is before all things and in whom all things hold together, Paul moves on to consider how false teachers compare to him. All treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found in this Christ, which means that mere men cannot teach anything that would be new or unknown to the Lord. It is the gospel of Christ that has saved them and cancelled their debts, and no new teaching can compare with this glorious reality. Rather than trusting in em
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August 4 · 6 min
Colossians 1
Paul writes to the church at Colossae from prison to correct false teaching and encourage the church to trust in Christ fully as Lord. In this first chapter he presents Jesus as supreme and preeminent over all of Creation. He is the firstborn, meaning he is the one inherits all things from the Father and that He comes first before anyone else and before anything else. This same powerful and authoritative Jesus is also the head of the church. Though we were alienated from God and hostile to him,
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August 3 · 7 min
John 21
We have reached the final chapter of the Gospel of John, wherein John reveals some of the events that took place following the resurrection of Jesus. In our last episode, the disciples discovered that Jesus had risen from the dead. He has presented himself to them on a couple of occasions already, but in today’s episode, Jesus appears to them on the shore of the Sea of Tiberius where has breakfast with the disciples. You may recall that Peter had denied Jesus three times, before the crucifixion.

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