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The Essence of Religious Hypocrisy
Christians often times get called hypocrites, many times rightly so. The times when religious hypocrisy is most evident is not in the cases of moral and ethical standards but in the sphere of authority…
Created 3 months ago
Matthew 23:5 (NASB), Matthew 23:6 (NASB), Matthew 23:7 (NASB), Matthew 23:8 (NASB), Matthew 23:9 (NASB), Matthew 23:10 (NASB), Matthew 23:11 (NASB), Matthew 23:12 (NASB)
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remorse that leads to salvation
We see a precedent for helping those who don't recognize truth to come to feel remorse.
Created 3 months ago
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frivolity or reverence?
Here we see an abnormal expression of Jesus one that readers having come to grips with he gospel focused on the weak and poor, the sick and the marred would allow for such costly a gift to be bestowed…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2012-02-17
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A problem for atheists
Here we see that in the time Hebrews was written there were those who doubted the existence of God otherwise this passage is spoken to no one.
Created 4 months ago
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hardened by the deceitfulness of sin
This portion of scripture is a good one to study if you are doubting that there will be a judgement of our actions as all who are under God's dominion.
Created 4 months ago
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One Clear Guideline
I, being a father, am continually reminding myself of this verse in my daily life with my children. The words of this passage act as a check for the manifestation of my personal frustration with my child.…
Created 4 months ago
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Communal Responsibility
We are a body of many parts that are to grow up into the Head - Jesus. This means that we're not gauging ourselves as mature and others as immature but instead gauging the growth of the body as a whole.…
Created 4 months ago
Ephesians 4:14 (NASB), Ephesians 4:15 (NASB), Ephesians 4:16 (NASB)
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Benediction - Speaking Good
Ultimately we are seeking to be filled and Paul's prayer for the Ephesian church is a request to God to "fill 'er up!" Here we see a prayer for God's blessing to be bestowed on a church to whom Paul sent…
Created 4 months ago
Ephesians 3:14 (NASB), Ephesians 3:15 (NASB), Ephesians 3:16 (NASB), Ephesians 3:17 (NASB), Ephesians 3:18 (NASB), Ephesians 3:19 (NASB), Ephesians 3:20 (NASB), Ephesians 3:21 (NASB)
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Tough
There may be no harder concept to grasp than this one here, it is the very same issue that we see in Job, and the very same concept that ultimately illustrates our own insignificance. Nothing offends…
Created 5 months ago
Romans 9:15 (NIV), Romans 9:16 (NIV), Romans 9:17 (NIV), Romans 9:18 (NIV)
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Romans 8:31-39
Romans 8:31-39 (NASB)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?Created 5 months ago
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Good Church Creed
How shall our churches be? We should be being made complete subjecting ourselves to God's scrutiny through fellowship of the word. We should be comforted and comforting one another at all in an effort…
Created 5 months ago
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For Those Suffering Depression
There are times in life when the mental and physical burdens are beyond our strength, and here we see Paul admitting to the Corinthians that their sharing in his struggles saved him from the death that…
Created 5 months ago
2 Corinthians 1:8 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 1:10 (NIV), 2 Corinthians 1:11 (NIV)
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-13
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Be Wrong for Good
Here we see Paul expounding upon the teachings of Jesus regarding loving our enemies.
Created 5 months ago
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License to Enact Spiritual Logic
We see Paul lauding the simplicity of the message of Christ and at the same time pointing out that to mature believers there is the right to reason and argue for those things that we have come to known…
Created 5 months ago
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Give it all?
I believe that if we were able to truly live literally the teachings of Jesus, giving up all when he says one who gives up all his possessions is truly one of his disciples, then we would also see the…
Created 8 months ago
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Higher Standards
Here we see Peter say to Jesus, "You give us such great challenges, is this just for us your disciples or everyone?" Jesus' response is basically to whom much is given much is expected. Or, with great…
Created 8 months ago
Luke 12:41 (NASB), Luke 12:42 (NASB), Luke 12:43 (NASB), Luke 12:44 (NASB), Luke 12:45 (NASB), Luke 12:46 (NASB), Luke 12:47 (NASB), Luke 12:48 (NASB)
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Pluck out your eye? I think not!
Often we disregard this passage because we know deep down that Jesus is exaggerating. It is nice to know that for the sake of teaching arguing something ad absurdum is a legitimate way to go about proving…
Created 8 months ago
Matthew 18:7 (NASB), Matthew 18:8 (NASB), Matthew 18:9 (NASB), Matthew 18:10 (NASB), Matthew 18:11 (NASB)
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Free but do not offend
If one desires to maintain peace and friendship with those to whom they are witnessing ( I use witnessing not as a form of super evangelism but rather as a way of life - an example of proper human living…
Created 8 months ago
Matthew 17:24 (NASB), Matthew 17:25 (NASB), Matthew 17:26 (NASB), Matthew 17:27 (NASB)
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To hell or not to hell?
As hard as it is to grasp a loving God sending people to hell, it is very clear in this passage that there will be a clear separation between those who are true wheat and those who are just weeds. Thank…
Created 9 months ago
Matthew 13:37 (NASB), Matthew 13:38 (NASB), Matthew 13:39 (NASB), Matthew 13:40 (NASB), Matthew 13:41 (NASB), Matthew 13:42 (NASB), Matthew 13:43 (NASB), Matthew 13:44 (NASB), Matthew 13:45 (NASB), Matthew 13:46 (NASB), Matthew 13:47 (NASB), Matthew 13:48 (NASB), Matthew 13:49 (NASB), Matthew 13:50 (NASB)
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Matthew 8:21
Matthew 8:21 (NIV)
Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."Created 9 months ago
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Loyalty and Faithfulness
These passages liken our relationship as a people to a proper relationship between a man and a woman likening a healthy relationship to one who does not forsake God for other gods and respects the one…
Created 10 months ago
Malachi 2:13 (NIV), Malachi 2:14 (NIV), Malachi 2:15 (NIV), Malachi 2:16 (NIV)
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The Newest of the Old Hymns
Looking back over all of OT history the author of this song is moved to say that when God restores us to our former glory we are like dreamers ecstatic. But it is not the dreamers who reap with songs…
Created 10 months ago
Psalm 126:1 (NIV), Psalm 126:2 (NIV), Psalm 126:3 (NIV), Psalm 126:4 (NIV), Psalm 126:5 (NIV), Psalm 126:6 (NIV)
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The King Makes the Playlist
I wonder how much freedom an ancient worship leader had in Jerusalem. It looks like they too had the joy of being under authority like their modern counterparts.
Created 10 months ago
Nehemiah 11:22 (NIV), Nehemiah 11:23 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:8 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:9 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:31 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:32 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:33 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:34 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:35 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:36 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:37 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:38 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:39 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:40 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:41 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:42 (NIV), Nehemiah 12:43 (NIV)
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Og of Bashan and Sihon of Heshbon
Og is by far the more interesting character with legend taking him back 3000 years prior to his encounter with Moses to the time of the flood where he supposedly rode atop or hanging on to the Ark to…
Created 10 months ago
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Name Changing gods
In this passage it says God made a name for himself, which remains to this day. God is compared to the gods of the day whose names changed and whose attributes were as fickle as the changing societies…
Created 10 months ago
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Nehemiah 7:65
Nehemiah 7:65 (NIV)
The governor, therefore, ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there should be a priest ministering with the Urim and Thummim.Created 10 months ago
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Fear Tactics Against God's People
Satan uses all kinds of tools to hinder our participation in God's work. One of the major ones is the neigh saying of our brothers and sisters in Christ who fear the leading and guiding of God's people…
Created 10 months ago
Nehemiah 6:10 (NIV), Nehemiah 6:11 (NIV), Nehemiah 6:12 (NIV), Nehemiah 6:13 (NIV)
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Nehemiah 2:20
Nehemiah 2:20 (NIV)
I answered them by saying, "The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it."Created 10 months ago
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Farewell to the children of our sin
Wow! This is a passage I struggle to understand the logic that goes with this. Truly God's ways are higher than my ways. I live in a culture that says once you take on a responsibility it is evil to pass…
Created 10 months ago
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Zechariah 13:3
Zechariah 13:3 (NIV)
And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, 'You must die, because you have told lies in the lord's name.' Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.Created 10 months ago
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Zechariah 7:4
Zechariah 7:4 (NIV)
Then the word of the lord Almighty came to me:Created 10 months ago
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Ezra 3:13
Ezra 3:13 (NIV)
No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.Created 10 months ago
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Ephesians 1:19
Ephesians 1:19 (NIV)
and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strengthCreated 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:22
Lamentations 3:22 (NIV)
Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:23
Lamentations 3:23 (NIV)
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:24
Lamentations 3:24 (NIV)
I say to myself, "The lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:25
Lamentations 3:25 (NIV)
The lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:26
Lamentations 3:26 (NIV)
it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the lord.Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:31
Lamentations 3:31 (NIV)
For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:32
Lamentations 3:32 (NIV)
Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.Created 10 months ago
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Lamentations 3:33
Lamentations 3:33 (NIV)
For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.Created 10 months ago
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Ezekiel 37:1
Ezekiel 37:1 (NIV)
The hand of the lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.Created 10 months ago
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Ezekiel 37:14
Ezekiel 37:14 (NIV)
I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the lord.'"Created 10 months ago
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Ezekiel 36:25
Ezekiel 36:25 (NIV)
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 36:26
Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 36:27
Ezekiel 36:27 (NIV)
And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 36:28
Ezekiel 36:28 (NIV)
Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 28:3
Ezekiel 28:3 (NIV)
Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 27:9
Ezekiel 27:9 (NIV)
Veteran craftsmen of Byblos were on board as shipwrights to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to trade for your wares.Created 11 months ago
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Ezekiel 17:24
Ezekiel 17:24 (NIV)
All the trees of the forest will know that I the lord bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. "'I the lord have spoken, and I will do it.'"Created 11 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-03-18
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-20
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-16
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-01-03
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2010-12-29
