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Proverbs 21:21
Proverbs 21:21 (NLT)
Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love will find life, righteousness, and honor.Created 8 days ago
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Ephesians 4:1-6
Ephesians 4:1-6 (NIV)
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.Created 13 days ago
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blame game
How often do we blame God and his will for the "ruin" that comes into our lives. We have in our folly brought the difficulty upon ourselves, yet in our infinite ability to deceive ourselves we begin to…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2012-02-03
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2 Peter 3:18
2 Peter 3:18 (NIV)
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.Created 6 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-11-29
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chapter 44 - our perceptions
This chapter seems to begin with a beautiful confession of dependence on God's hand and God's favor. Yet when calamity and attacks come, the trust that God is bringing glory to his kingdom through those…
Created 7 months ago
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relational God
The God of the Bible is so completely relational from the beginning to the end of the story he is writing. He walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. Right living throughout the Old Story is described…
Created 7 months ago
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Philippians 2:14-18
Philippians 2:14-18 (NIV)
Do everything without grumbling or arguing,Created 7 months ago
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1 Corinthians 15:1
1 Corinthians 15:1 (NIV)
Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand.Created 7 months ago
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2 Timothy 4:5
2 Timothy 4:5 (NIV)
But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.Created 7 months ago
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Acts 2:3
Acts 2:3 (MSG)
Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks,Created 8 months ago
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paradox
There seems a paradox of gratitude and fear in this passage. We are instructed and called to gratitude for the leading of Jesus that has brought us to a greatest covenant, a holier mountain, a great city.…
Created 10 months ago
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too often
Too often I turn to the LORD for help late in the game. I pray for wisdom after I have made my pros and cons list. I ask for guidance when I have exhausted all other sources of advice. I pray for I inspiration…
Created 10 months ago
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Truth, Patience, Love
As I read the third chapter of this letter, I hear a pastoral tone of encouragement. Believers struggling and being reminded by their pastor to “stimulate wholesome thinking” by remembering the holy words…
Created 11 months ago
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you are the king
Father, I recognize that you grant me a place in your kingdom. I do not reign in my life or over the circumstances of my day. I submit to your authority, judgment and grace. You are the king, and I am…
Created almost 1 year ago
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salvation
What a beautiful cosmic view of salvation that encompasses all of creation.
Created about 1 year ago
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always?
Really always? Protection without end, trust that always believes, unending hope, never gives up. Really always? This love would change everything!
Created about 1 year ago
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opportunities
A friend recently told me that he drove by a person broken down on the side of the interstate. He prayed, "God send someone to help them." God's reply was, "I did, but you kept driving." He got off at…
Created about 1 year ago
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Hope
Those who have found their lives caught up in the story of God and are allowing him to narrate the twists and turns gain new perspective. It is first off not like the world's dominate perspectives of…
Created about 1 year ago
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Help
"I look to the hills, where does my help come from?" The hills would have been the high holy places of worship for Ba'al and Asherah, Canaanite fertility gods. Our man is leaving the Temple and looking…
Created about 1 year ago
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1 John 3:13
1 John 3:13 (NIV)
Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.Created about 1 year ago
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Acts 20:24
Acts 20:24 (NIV)
However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God's grace.Created about 1 year ago
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faith and sight
I wonder what this really means? Are faith and sight exclusive? Ae there times when we walk by sight, following the signs and wonders and vision of God toward becoming all that he wants us to be all the…
Created about 1 year ago
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God Plans
He has planned for your life and my life to be marked by good works for and in and through his kingdom
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-04-26
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Ephesians 2:10
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.Created about 1 year ago
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freedom
Interesting thought just hit me. Freedom is seen as being able to do whatever you want. However, here we see that freedom is not the ability to do whatever we want. True freedom is that ability to be…
Created about 1 year ago
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Colossians 4:6
Colossians 4:6 (NIV)
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.Created about 1 year ago
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Colossians 1:13
Colossians 1:13 (NIV)
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,Created about 1 year ago
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Colossians 1:11
Colossians 1:11 (NIV)
being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,Created about 1 year ago
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Matthew 27:54
Matthew 27:54 (ASV)
Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.Created about 1 year ago
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Passover
Jews celebrated and celebrate God's saving act in Egypt during the season of Passover. On the night that they were set free from slavery to the Egyptians they were passed over by death because they had…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-04-19
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betrayal
We have nearly all felt the betrayal of a close friend. We have felt the stinging barb of having been turned upon by a brother or sister in Christ. Too many of us allow that to be a stumbling block upon…
Created about 1 year ago
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Acts 9:3
Acts 9:3 (MSG)
He set off. When he got to the outskirts of Damascus, he was suddenly dazed by a blinding flash of light. As he fell to the ground, he heard a voice: "Saul, Saul, why are you out to get me?"Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 24:13
Luke 24:13 (MSG)
That same day two of them were walking to the village Emmaus, about seven miles out of Jerusalem. They were deep in conversation, going over all these things that had happened. In the middle of their talk and questions, Jesus came up and walked along with them. But they were not able to recognize who he was.Created about 1 year ago
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Romans 11:36
Romans 11:36 (NIV)
For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.Created about 1 year ago
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Romans 11:32
Romans 11:32 (NIV)
For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.Created about 1 year ago
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churchES
The letter sharing allowed the churches to learn from each others strengths and weaknesses. The messages should be applied on both personal and congregational levels as we are the church.
Created about 1 year ago
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invest in the church
Jesus esteems the local church - Beth Moore It matters to Jesus that we are sharing our journey in a collaborative effort in the mission of the kingdom for the glory of God.
Created about 1 year ago
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ending
Perhaps he is talking about ending of Israel, jerusalem's temple, the Jewish religious system of the time that occurred because nation went to war against nation and the Romans put an end to it. Perhaps…
Created about 1 year ago
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touch
The leper was given more than he could imagine when Jesus chose to touch him! Who are we afraid to touch, but needs a touch from an agent of the kingdom of heaven.
Created about 1 year ago
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vocation
Jesus knew y he was here. He lived with intention and purposeful clarity, can we live with the same clarity and intention. He knew why he came...that seems tomb the secret we miss out on...we wander aimlessly…
Created about 1 year ago
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know who u are
The demons knew who Jesus was, but some how we all missed it..minus 120 people. How few of us really know him, and how many think that they do?
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-04-12
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Numbers 12:6
Numbers 12:6 (NIV)
he said, "Listen to my words: "When there is a prophet among you, I, the lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.Created about 1 year ago
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vision
God gives his prophets and leaders vision and dreams for the direction and good of the people!
Created about 1 year ago
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when we are broken
When we are broken we often feel like God is farther away than ever. We feel as though we does not see us or hear our prayers. The truth is that when we need him most he is the closest, but we miss seeing…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-04-11
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-04-09
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-04-08