The Daily Pursuit is a journal of my daily study and worship, mostly for my own accountability but hopefully for the inspiration and motivation of others as well. Follow along if you wish as I read the scriptures, sing hymns, pray, and read edifying books for my own spiritual growth and private worship.

Bible Study:

• 2 Corinthians 11-12
• Impact Verses: So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
• The Baptist Catechism by Benjamin Keach
  • Q. 16. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wherein he was created?
    A. When God had created man, He entered into a covenant of works with him, upon condition of perfect obedience, forbidding him to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death. (Gen. 2:16,17; Gal. 3:12; Rom. 5:12)
• Listen To: Ezra – https://www.biblestudytools.com/audio-bible/esv/ezra/

Singing of Hymns:

• Fairest Lord Jesus – https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/175
• When we survey the wondrous cross – https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/101
• Rock of Ages, cleft for me – https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1058

Book Reading:

• The Manual: Getting Masculinity Right – Chapter 4 Initiation: From Boys To Men

Prayer:

• Reading and Meditations from The Valley of Vision
• Personal Prayers

The Doxology:

• Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
  Praise him all creatures here below;
  Praise him above, ye heav’nly host;
  Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
• About The Doxology – https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-best-known-hymn-in-history
• Accompanying Music – https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/8