Nolan Owings

  • PNolan
  • Centerville, IA

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    Daniel 3:16-18 (NIV)
    Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, "King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.

    Created 3 months ago

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    Isaiah 6:8 (NIV)
    Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

    Created 3 months ago

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    Exodus 3:4 (NIV)
    When the lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."

    Created 3 months ago

  • A New Creation

    This passage from the Message gives such a beautiful picture of God's creation and how he can take the chaos of our lives.and bring order and beauty out of it if we will only let him.

    Created 4 months ago

    Psalm 51:10 (MSG)

  • Sin that costs.

    How often would we mindlessly sin if it actually cost us something.

    Created 5 months ago

    1 Chronicles 21:24 (MSG)

  • Children of God

    Adoption was around even in the time of Christ. In the Roman world to be adopted was to mean that you became a child with full rights.in the new family you were brought into. But this also meant that…

    Created 5 months ago

    Romans 8:14 (NIV), Romans 8:15 (NIV), Romans 8:16 (NIV), Romans 8:17 (NIV)

  • Discipline of children

    In this day and age this verse seems to hold some small amount of irony. The question of today seems to be who has disciplined their children instead of who hasn't. Our society today lives by a code of…

    Created 6 months ago

    Hebrews 12:7 (NLT)

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    What a novel concept this is, to be known and loved not for the way you look, the money or toys that you have, but instead for your actions of your life, for the beliefs that you live out each day!

    Created 6 months ago

    1 Timothy 2:10 (NLT)

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    Crusifiction was reserved for the worst or crimes. So imagine that the sins that daily entangle you are the worst of offenders that must be put to death with finality so that you can then get on with…

    Created 6 months ago

    Galatians 5:24 (NLT)

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    We don't bring glory to God when obey the "Law", or perform acts of service, or do any good work in general. We bring glory to God when we continue to walk in faith even when our circumstances don't seem…

    Created 6 months ago

    Romans 4:20 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-11-20

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    Is there any special relation between the hissop branch the hebrews used during the first Passover and the branch they used to give Jesus a drink?

    Created 7 months ago

    John 19:29 (NLT)

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    Can the world wide church make a claim to this prayer from Christ for our unity? It would seem too me that at this time in history when we have a greater and greater ability to communicate instantly with…

    Created 7 months ago

    John 17:21 (NLT)

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    How many people are out there today, believing, but not ready to make to decision to actually follow because they are afraid of what that decision will do to there lives. And all they need is for someone…

    Created 7 months ago

    John 12:42 (NLT), John 12:43 (NLT)

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    This verse alone would seem to stand on its head any idea that God needs or even desires anything more from us then our worship and belief. The only work desired is for us the believe.

    Created 7 months ago

    John 6:29 (NLT)

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    This seems to be man in a nutshell, we spend our lives looking for answers about life, but somehow we always seem to miss the truth right in front of us.

    Created 7 months ago

    John 5:39 (NLT), John 5:40 (NLT)

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    many times in the gospels when Jesus says that someone is asleep they are actually physically dead, and when they are spiritually bankrupt Jesus calls them dead. seems to turn on its head the ideas that…

    Created 7 months ago

    Mark 5:39 (NLT)

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    there is a vast difference between slow and patient. we have a patient God, not a slow God. he has pomissed eternal life through his son Jesus, he has also promised judgment at a given time, and just…

    Created 7 months ago

    2 Peter 3:9 (NIV)

  • A change in perspective

    Jesus said, I come not to save those who "think" they are righteous, but those who "know" they are sinners. Maybe its time that we in the churches remember that. Setting in a pew every Sunday does not…

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 9:13 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-11-01

  • unless the people can show more

    unless the people can show more reighteouness than the people they call the most righteous they can't go to heaven, that must have been a hard message to hear. the people must have been both shocked…

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 5:20 (NLT)

  • Godlike

    How would it change the way that we function on a daily basis if we thought about ourselves as Godlike, that we are in our every essense like God, in that our very souls are like God, created by God

    Created 9 months ago

    Genesis 1:27 (MSG)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2011-04-06

  • Revelation 12:11

    Revelation 12:11 (NIV)
    They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-04-05

  • 1 Peter 2:10

    1 Peter 2:10 (NIV)
    Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 1 Peter 2:12

    1 Peter 2:12 (NIV)
    Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 11:35

    Romans 11:35 (NIV)
    "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay them?"

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 8:22

    Romans 8:22 (NIV)
    We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 8:22

    Romans 8:22 (NIV)
    We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 19:13

    Acts 19:13 (NIV)
    Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 19:14

    Acts 19:14 (NIV)
    Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 19:14

    Acts 19:14 (NIV)
    Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 19:16

    Acts 19:16 (NIV)
    Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 11:18

    Acts 11:18 (NIV)
    When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, "So then, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance that leads to life."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 9:15

    Acts 9:15 (NIV)
    But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Acts 9:16

    Acts 9:16 (NIV)
    I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • John 17:14

    John 17:14 (NIV)
    I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • John 10:10

    John 10:10 (NIV)
    The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • John 8:58

    John 8:58 (NIV)
    "Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • John 3:13

    John 3:13 (NIV)
    No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • John 3:15

    John 3:15 (NIV)
    that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Luke 19:7

    Luke 19:7 (NIV)
    All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a sinner."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Luke 19:7

    Luke 19:7 (NIV)
    All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a sinner."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Luke 18:13

    Luke 18:13 (NIV)
    "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Luke 4:1

    Luke 4:1 (NIV)
    Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-03-04

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-03-01

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2010-12-22