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Believing
Jesus asked if the people would ever believe without seeing miracles or wonders. Then this man pleaded for the healing of his son. He was in fact asking for a miracle, which may have prompted Jesus' scolding.…
Created about 24 hours ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans
2011-11-20
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2 Timothy 1:7
2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.Created 8 months ago
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Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 10:13
1 Corinthians 10:13 (NLT)
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.Created 8 months ago
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1 Corinthians 4:5
1 Corinthians 4:5 (NLT)
So don’t make judgments about anyone ahead of time—before the Lord returns. For he will bring our darkest secrets to light and will reveal our private motives. Then God will give to each one whatever praise is due.Created 9 months ago
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Psalm 56:3
Psalm 56:3 (NLT)
But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.Created 9 months ago
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Proverbs 16:9
Proverbs 16:9 (NLT)
We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.Created 9 months ago
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Fickle Crowds
How amazing it is to see where popularity can get you. One day the crowds are wanting to worship Paul as if he were a god. Shortly after, the same crowd was stoning him. It is pretty clear that if we…
Created 9 months ago
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Having Faith For Healing
It appears in this verse that a person can only be healed if they have the faith. This is not really a surprising concept. What does surprise me is that Paul realized this man had the faith to be healed.…
Created 9 months ago
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2 Corinthians 10:3-6
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 (NLT)
We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do.Created 10 months ago
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Whose Faith Healed This Man?
I have often wondered - was this man healed because of his own faith, or because of the faith of Peter and John? I looked up the Greek words through my Strong's Concordance, and I think in some way both…
Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-07-24
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1 Peter 3:21
1 Peter 3:21 (NLT)
And that water is a picture of baptism, which now saves you, not by removing dirt from your body, but as a response to God from a clean conscience. It is effective because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.Created 11 months ago
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how heresy begins
Paul says that there are people teaching the necessity of circumcision not because it is truth, but because they want to look good to others and avoid persecution. Their Jewish culture resisted the truth…
Created 11 months ago
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Acts 19:4
Acts 19:4 (NLT)
Paul said, “John’s baptism called for repentance from sin. But John himself told the people to believe in the one who would come later, meaning Jesus.”Created about 1 year ago
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Acts 18:10
Acts 18:10 (NLT)
For I am with you, and no one will attack and harm you, for many people in this city belong to me.”Created about 1 year ago
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Acts 18:9
Acts 18:9 (NLT)
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision and told him, “Don’t be afraid! Speak out! Don’t be silent!Created about 1 year ago
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A Secret Follower
Joseph was a secret disciple because he feared the Jews - yet he was the one who stepped forward to claim the body and bury it. He chose an interesting time to identify himself with Jesus. The disciple…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-03-13
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Trading Gods
This is true - how odd! No matter how evil, or powerless, a people’s gods are, they stick by them with an incredible loyalty. So why is it that the people of the Living God are so willing to abandon Him?…
Created over 1 year ago
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Isaiah 55:7
Isaiah 55:7 (NLT)
Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously.Created over 1 year ago
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Isaiah 55:8
Isaiah 55:8 (NLT)
“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.Created over 1 year ago
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Isaiah 50:7
Isaiah 50:7 (NLT)
Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will. And I know that I will not be put to shame.Created over 1 year ago
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Isaiah 49:1
Isaiah 49:1 (NLT)
Listen to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.Created over 1 year ago
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God's sovereignty and Men's Minds
How interesting that the King of Assyria will not understand that when he brings judgment on Israel, he is doing so as God's tool. He can't understand this because his mind doesn't work that way. He is…
Created over 1 year ago
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Thinking differently
We all need this warning! We can't afford to think like the rest of the world. They also believe in conspiracy, and fear. Their focus is on self. Instead, we need to see life through the eyes of God.…
Created over 1 year ago
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Stand firm
What an amazing statement: Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm. This is so true. If we will trust God completely, nothing can shake us. But if we take our eyes off Him and look at…
Created over 1 year ago
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Manasseh repents
So many kings in Judah started out good, then abandoned the lord. Here, the opposite happened. Manasseh was the most wicked king that Judah ever had. The things he did were horrible. But when God judged…
Created over 1 year ago
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Hezekiah's pride
It doesn't explain Hezekiah's pride in Chronicles, but in Kings, it says that he showed the leaders from Babylon everything in his palace. I guess the problem here is that when God healed him of his illness,…
Created over 1 year ago
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Pride
Uzziah was a good king, until his pride destroyed him. He started to think that he was the ultimate authority, and as such he could do whatever he wanted. When confronted by the priests, he went into…
Created over 1 year ago
2 Chronicles 26:16 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 26:17 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 26:18 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 26:19 (NLT)
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Amaziah continues the trend
And once again, a good king goes bad! Amaziah followed the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. After destroying the Edomites, he begins to worship the idols he took as plunder. When a prophet pointed out the…
Created over 1 year ago
2 Chronicles 25:14 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 25:15 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 25:16 (NLT)
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Joash's lack of sincerity
Joash was king for 40 years. He followed a very evil king, Ahaziah, whose mother was a daughter of the wicked king Ahab of Israel. After his dad was killed, his grandmother ruled Judah, after killing…
Created over 1 year ago
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Asa's Change in Character
It's so sad to see someone who started so strong end so badly. Asa was truly a hero of God, doing His will. He took extraordinary steps by removing his own grandmother from power because of her adultery.…
Created over 1 year ago
2 Chronicles 16:7 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 16:8 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 16:9 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 16:10 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 16:11 (NLT), 2 Chronicles 16:12 (NLT)
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Wise warnings
God warns future kings not to take many wives, or to accumulate large amounts of wealth for themselves. Yet Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, ignored these commands. He was given great wealth…
Created over 1 year ago
Deuteronomy 17:17 (NLT), Deuteronomy 17:18 (NLT), Deuteronomy 17:19 (NLT)
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Balaam's sin
Both Peter and Jude make it clear in their writings that this was because of Balaam. He couldn't curse the Israelites like Balak wanted him to do, so instead he found another way to profit from the situation.…
Created over 1 year ago
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Why was God angry at Balaam?
It appears to me that God just told Balaam that he could go with the Moabite officials in vs. 20. In vs. 22, God is angry for him going and is going to kill him for it. This doesn't seem to make sense…
Created over 1 year ago
Numbers 22:20 (NLT), Numbers 22:21 (NLT), Numbers 22:22 (NLT)
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Pardoned?
God says that He will pardon the people as Moses requested, yet He is still going to punish them. I don't quite see how they are pardoned then. Apparently they can be pardoned while still suffering consequences.
Created over 1 year ago
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Why did Moses want a guide?
Moses and the Israelites were being led by God Himself, with the very visible sign of the pillar of cloud by day, fire by night. They stayed when it was stationary and moved when it moved, and they went…
Created over 1 year ago
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Discouragement
When we get discouraged because of difficult circumstances, it is common to stop listening to what God has to say. It takes a special kind of faith to continue to trust God when things get worse instead…
Created over 1 year ago
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Bad record keeping
How is this possible? It seems like such an important event, seems there would have been records of it.There is a posability that the pharaohs at the time of Joseph were of the Asiatic line of nomads…
Created over 1 year ago
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Avoiding temptation
Joseph avoided her as much as possible - the exact opposite of what most of us do when facing a temptation. The sin would bring pleasure, so we try to get as close as possible, and absorb as much of the…
Created over 1 year ago
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Customs
It was the custom of the people towait to remove the stone over the well and water the sheep until all the shepherds were there, but this was apparently not in the best interest of the sheep. Jacob was…
Created over 1 year ago
Genesis 29:1 (NLT), Genesis 29:2 (NLT), Genesis 29:3 (NLT), Genesis 29:4 (NLT), Genesis 29:5 (NLT), Genesis 29:6 (NLT), Genesis 29:7 (NLT), Genesis 29:8 (NLT)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-01-02
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-01-01
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Genesis 17:1
Genesis 17:1 (NLT)
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-01
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-01
