Ben Rupp

  • desolate

    Thinking about my conversation with Tyler yesterday and the man who said learn to like beer as the answer for being lonely. Drinking is not bad but God punished the wicked by drunkenness to vomit to desolation.…

    Created 4 months ago

    Jeremiah 25:27 (ESV), Jeremiah 25:28 (ESV)

  • anyone want to help me understand?

    I'm not quite sure what was happening when they said " the burden of the lord." the only thing I can gather is that was a teaching of the false prophets and a way for God to separate the truthful people…

    Created 4 months ago

    Jeremiah 23:35 (ESV), Jeremiah 23:36 (ESV)

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  • Don't be stubborn

    Listen to God and not what you want to hear. I am not God.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 23:16 (ESV), Jeremiah 23:17 (ESV), Jeremiah 23:18 (ESV)

  • The Lord is my righteousness

    I love this prophecy of Christ, the He became our righteousness. Especially in the context of Israel so far gone that they hardened their hearts toward their own ways and by their own terms.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 23:5 (ESV), Jeremiah 23:6 (ESV)

  • The ways of the Lord

    He keeps us humble that we listen to him and love justly. We are to be modest.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 22:3 (ESV), Jeremiah 22:13 (ESV), Jeremiah 22:14 (ESV), Jeremiah 22:15 (ESV), Jeremiah 22:16 (ESV), Jeremiah 22:21 (ESV)

  • what passion in my bones

    There are moments in my life where my passion for God is burning in my bones. However I too often quench this passion and do not proclaim His greatness.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 20:9 (ESV)

  • critical mass

    I love how the Lord instructs his people from every place to come together to worship the Lord with sacrifice and thanks offerings to the LORD

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 17:26 (ESV)

  • YOU are my praise

    It is by YOU LORD that I am head and that I am saved, let the WORD of the LORD come to me! I love the way it is written here. Save me, and I shall be saved.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 17:14 (ESV), Jeremiah 17:15 (ESV)

  • Passover

    I think it would be cool to celebrate the Passover and observe and remember what God did for Israel. I know this is now the Eucharist but there's still more there with the history.

    Created 5 months ago

    Deuteronomy 16:8 (ESV)

  • which king followed these?

    I don't recall david or Solomon to abide by theses commands?

    Created 5 months ago

    Deuteronomy 17:17 (ESV)

  • justice

    Here it is again. Eat and rejoice but do not forget to feed the widowed, the pastors, and the foreigners.

    Created 5 months ago

    Deuteronomy 14:29 (ESV)

  • God of justice

    Reminds me of micah 6:8 Also, I love that it speaks of treating sojourners well.

    Created 5 months ago

    Deuteronomy 10:18 (ESV), Deuteronomy 10:19 (ESV), Deuteronomy 10:20 (ESV)

  • ouch

    Guide to being a foolish Child of God: -know HIM not -be and act Stupid -Understand nothing -Wise only in doing Evil -Know not how to do good. It is crazy to think that this is our nature. It starts…

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 4:22 (ESV)

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    2011-12-28

  • Need This

    Praise the Lord that he brings Shepherds. I Pray we might find a place to settle in that we may meet regularly with Church family to be lead by a shepherd and to lead as well.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 3:15 (ESV)

  • Worship God Alone

    Seems like these dudes became pantheist. The LORD is a jealous GOD, worship the creator, not his creation.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:27 (ESV)

  • Beautiful Words

    "I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God..."

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 3:12 (ESV), Jeremiah 3:13 (ESV)

  • Examine: look into the mirror

    I think of the James verse that talks about looking into the mirror and walking away unchanged.  However, I want to take this serious.  I think about how God has broke my yoke and burst my bonds in the…

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:20 (ESV), Jeremiah 2:23 (ESV)

  • Fear the LORD

    I need this Fear. To know that to follow Him and to fear his Holiness, yet yearn for it, will lead me in his ways.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:19 (ESV)

  • Two Evils

    1Forsaking God as the source of Living Water. Okay, sort of get that... 2 Hewed out Cisterns for themselves. What are these broken Cisterns? Is it that we come up with our own devices that hold no living…

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:13 (ESV)

  • Not After Worthlessness

    My worth is about pursuing the LORD and staying near to Him. This is the fulfilling of life, however it needs to happen.

    Created 5 months ago

    Jeremiah 2:5 (ESV)

  • acknowledge God

    5. acknowledges God before his brother 10. relates Esau to wresting or seeing face to face with God. I think it seems like there is a tie between his Fear of God and Fear of Esau? Even in that fear he…

    Created 7 months ago

    Genesis 33:5 (ESV), Genesis 33:10 (ESV)

  • Wife

    Since Rachel gave Jacob Bilhah for childbearing she became a wife.  Sex between Jacob and Bilhah makes her a wife, interesting to think in todays context, many people take a wife without calling it that,…

    Created 7 months ago

    Genesis 30:3 (ESV)

  • Isaiah 12:1

    Isaiah 12:1 (ESV)
    You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.

    Created 7 months ago

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    2011-10-19

  • His Name

    Beautifully paints who He is.

    Created 7 months ago

    Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)

  • Isaiah 8:13, Isaiah 8:20

    Isaiah 8:13 (ESV)
    But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

    Isaiah 8:20 (ESV)
    To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Isaiah 8:20

    Isaiah 8:20 (ESV)
    To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

    Created 7 months ago

  • Isaiah 6:5-7, Isaiah 6:10

    Isaiah 6:5-7 (ESV)
    And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"

    Isaiah 6:10 (ESV)
    Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."

    Created 8 months ago

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  • Isaiah 6:5-7

    Isaiah 6:5-7 (ESV)
    And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"

    Created 8 months ago

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    2011-10-06