-
right then wrong
Gideon makes a great choice then blunders by creating something the people "whore"
Created 29 days ago
-
Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 4:24
Deuteronomy 4:9 (MSG)
Just make sure you stay alert. Keep close watch over yourselves. Don't forget anything of what you've seen. Don't let your heart wander off. Stay vigilant as long as you live. Teach what you've seen and heard to your children and grandchildren.Deuteronomy 4:24 (MSG)
God, your God, is not to be trifled with-he's a consuming fire, a jealous God.Created about 1 month ago
-
family
Deuteronomy 4:9 (MSG)
Just make sure you stay alert. Keep close watch over yourselves. Don't forget anything of what you've seen. Don't let your heart wander off. Stay vigilant as long as you live. Teach what you've seen and heard to your children and grandchildren.Created about 1 month ago
-
Blessing
Romans 15:13 (MSG)
Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!Created about 1 month ago
-
In our season of hardship
Deuteronomy 1:28-31 (ESV)
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'Created about 1 month ago
-
Patience Prepares
As I think back through what Joseph has gone through, I can imagine that these years of having dreams, then being done wrong, and working hard and being done wrong, prepared him in his relationship with…
Created 4 months ago
-
Jamie on Psalm 16
1 - He's our God, our first love. 4 - There's other gods. The 40's are where most men falter and lives blow up. Know which side of the battlefield you are on. 5 - Whatever the taste of the cup at…
Created 4 months ago
-
Restored? His Kids are Dead!
I don't understand this. There is certainly power in the beginning of Job with the absoluteness of his loss. His restoration seems to be painted the same way, but who can you really account for the loss…
Created 4 months ago
-
odd
Genesis 15:12 (MSG)
As the sun went down a deep sleep overcame Abram and then a sense of dread, dark and heavy.Created 5 months ago
-
Katie and Ally
Proverbs 10:12 (NIV84)
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.Created 5 months ago
-
Katie and Ally
Proverbs 10:12 (NIV84)
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.Created 5 months ago
-
Ally
Proverbs 10:12 (NIV84)
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.Created 5 months ago
-
Different Neighbor from Love Your Neighbor?
I'm guessing not, and that LYN means love your brother. focus on the body (love, disciple, etc) and let the world see your light, recognize they are sick and come for healing and truth. not "go out and…
Created 5 months ago
Ephesians 4:12 (NIV84), Ephesians 4:15 (NIV84), Ephesians 4:25 (NIV84)
-
gotta speak the truth in love to grow
Ephesians 4:12 (NIV84)
to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built upEphesians 4:15 (NIV84)
Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.Created 5 months ago
-
like teams
Ephesians 2:20-22 (MSG)
He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he's using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstoneCreated 5 months ago
Labels: memory verse
-
Ephesians 1:11, Ephesians 1:17-19, Ephesians 1:23
Ephesians 1:11 (MSG)
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.Ephesians 1:17-19 (MSG)
But I do more than thank. I ask-ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory-to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,Ephesians 1:23 (MSG)
The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.Created 5 months ago
Labels: memory verse
-
Ephesians 1:11, Ephesians 1:17-19
Ephesians 1:11 (MSG)
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.Ephesians 1:17-19 (MSG)
But I do more than thank. I ask-ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory-to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,Created 5 months ago
Labels: memory verse
-
Ephesians 1:11
Ephesians 1:11 (MSG)
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.Created 5 months ago
Labels: memory verse
-
Mark 14:22, Mark 14:38
Mark 14:22 (ESV)
And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body."Mark 14:38 (ESV)
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."Created 6 months ago
-
Mark 9:35
Mark 9:35 (ESV)
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."Created 6 months ago
-
Mark 8:36-37
Mark 8:36-37 (ESV)
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?Created 6 months ago
-
Agile Adoption Seeds
lots of parallels here to flesh out.
Created 6 months ago
Mark 4:14 (ESV), Mark 4:15 (ESV), Mark 4:16 (ESV), Mark 4:17 (ESV), Mark 4:18 (ESV), Mark 4:19 (ESV), Mark 4:20 (ESV)
-
Mark 4:14-20
Mark 4:14-20 (ESV)
The sower sows the word.Created 6 months ago
-
Matthew 25:35
Matthew 25:35 (ESV)
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,Created 6 months ago
-
Burying or Talent
we are afraid of expectations, so we take our abilities and put them away, living a life of fearful 'safety' and no return or benefit.
Created 6 months ago
-
Mark 3:5
Mark 3:5 (ESV)
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.Created 6 months ago
-
Luke 22:26
Luke 22:26 (ESV)
But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.Created 6 months ago
-
Matthew 22:29, Matthew 22:37
Matthew 22:29 (ESV)
But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.Matthew 22:37 (ESV)
And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.Created 6 months ago
-
Matthew 22:29
Matthew 22:29 (ESV)
But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.Created 6 months ago
-
Matthew 22:37
Matthew 22:37 (ESV)
And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.Created 6 months ago
-
a2
Proverbs 12:8 (ESV)
A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.Proverbs 12:15 (ESV)
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.Proverbs 12:18 (ESV)
There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.Created 6 months ago
-
awesomeness
Proverbs 12:8 (ESV)
A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.Proverbs 12:15 (ESV)
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.Created 6 months ago
-
Don't Let People Set You Up
Its even okay to argue/prove them wrong, partly for hope of their own learning.
Created 6 months ago
-
Servant Leaders in Business
Great verse for leaders and managers out there. Couple this with "do you begrudge my generosity," on how workers are treated - fairness (not equality) plus generosity.
Created 6 months ago
-
Untitled Note
wondering if this means not thinking of myself but the company that I work for. Hard. feels like trusting God.
Created 7 months ago
Luke 16:10 (ESV), Luke 16:11 (ESV), Luke 16:12 (ESV), Luke 16:13 (ESV)
-
Though It Tears You Apart
Abide. Easy to do in good times, hard to do in tough times - when you can't pay your mortgage and have to leave your home, when you can't find a job for months and have to use food stamps, when your child…
Created 7 months ago
-
The Yoke is Easy for Children
I never realized that the yoke metaphor comes after Jesus' statement of revelation for those like children. God, I will choose to trust you and have peace with spiritual things being hidden from me and…
Created 7 months ago
Matthew 11:25 (ESV), Matthew 11:26 (ESV), Matthew 11:27 (ESV), Matthew 11:28 (ESV), Matthew 11:29 (ESV), Matthew 11:30 (ESV)
-
Why I Don't Lead People to Christ
As I sit and wonder why I haven't known anyone to be born again in 10 years, I wonder if I'm not among the right people. Earlier Jesus said that it's not the well that need the doctor, but the sick. Here…
Created 7 months ago
-
Easy Test, Tough Command
Two things strike me from this one. First, what should I do with my disposable income? Give it away. Somehow I'll need to work that out between what Dave Ramsey says (first save, then invest, then be…
Created 8 months ago
-
Decreasing My Identity
If John the Baptist was saying that he must decrease, it's not about the work he's doing but about the relative importance. I could make a two column list, and fill one side with what I do for work, the…
Created 8 months ago
-
Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2011-09-11
-
Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-07-23
-
Out of Appreciation
I love the first two sentences of 1 Cor 15:10 in The Message. I was feeling something similar at church yesterday morning - overwhelmed with appreciation that someone so perfect and holy makes all this…
Created 11 months ago
-
Obedience Equation
In The Message is says, "Do what you're told so that you'll have a good life." I do want to have a good life. I think about that a lot. But I don't see so clearly how to get there. I think of my career,…
Created 11 months ago
-
unsure, scared & successful
In The Message, it's phrased as Paul saying "I was unsure...I was scared...but God did it anyway." Awesome!
Created 12 months ago
-
Untitled Note
I like Paul's refreshing honesty in telling us "There are difficult times ahead" (verse 1, The Message) and "Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble," and finally the way…
Created 12 months ago
2 Timothy 3:1 (MSG), 2 Timothy 3:12 (MSG), 2 Timothy 3:17 (MSG)
-
Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-06-12
-
Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-06-10
-
Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-01-25
-
Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2010-12-24
-
Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2010-12-24
-
Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2010-12-24
-
Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2010-12-24