Christopher Gow

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights

    2012-05-11

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2012-04-16

  • 2 days

    Jesus stays with the Samaritans for 2 days and before he leaves they say that "[they] know that he is the savior of the world" If God works through us, we should be able to be such shining examples…

    Created 5 months ago

    John 4:40 (NASB), John 4:42 (NASB)

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2012-01-01

  • The Price of a Slave

    Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver which is roughly 90 days of labor's worth in silver. Which today would be about $5000. More significantly, 30 pieces of silver was the price of a slave during…

    Created 8 months ago

    Matthew 26:15 (ESV), Matthew 26:47 (ESV)

  • Inquiring of the Lord

    In this verse, David asks the Lord if he should up-root and move his family. This is something that I've never seen someone do. In my experience, when people I know have gotten job opportunities or even…

    Created 8 months ago

    2 Samuel 2:1 (NIV)

  • 1 Samuel 28:13

    1 Samuel 28:13 (NIV)
    The king said to her, "Don't be afraid. What do you see?" The woman said, "I see a ghostly figure coming up out of the earth."

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Kings 7:23

    1 Kings 7:23 (ESV)
    Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 2 Corinthians 10:4

    2 Corinthians 10:4 (ESV)
    For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 16:14

    1 Samuel 16:14 (ESV)
    Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 15:33

    1 Samuel 15:33 (ESV)
    And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 15:22-23

    1 Samuel 15:22-23 (ESV)
    And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 15:11

    1 Samuel 15:11 (ESV)
    "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 13:22

    1 Samuel 13:22 (NIV)
    So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    1 Samuel 12:21 (ESV)
    And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

    Created 9 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 12:18

    1 Samuel 12:18 (ESV)
    So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

    Created 9 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-08-30

  • power of the Lord

    The most profound thing about this passage is that the Lord first puts "the anger of the Lord" into Saul, and then "the DREAD of the Lord into the people. I find it fascinating that the Lord even has…

    Created 9 months ago

    1 Samuel 11:6 (ESV), 1 Samuel 11:7 (ESV)

  • 1 Samuel 10:9

    1 Samuel 10:9 (ESV)
    When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.

    Created 9 months ago

  • Judges 10:13

    Judges 10:13 (ESV)
    Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Judges 10:13

    Judges 10:13 (ESV)
    Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Judges 7:18

    Judges 7:18 (ESV)
    When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, 'For the Lord and for Gideon.'"

    Created 11 months ago

  • Judges 3:2

    Judges 3:2 (ESV)
    It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Joshua 24:15

    Joshua 24:15 (ESV)
    And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

    Created 11 months ago

  • Proverbs 7:26

    Proverbs 7:26 (ESV)
    for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.

    Created 12 months ago

  • Joshua 20:7

    Joshua 20:7 (ESV)
    So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

    Created 12 months ago

  • Joshua 10:13

    Joshua 10:13 (ESV)
    And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Joshua 10:11

    Joshua 10:11 (ESV)
    And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Luke 12:20

    Luke 12:20 (ESV)
    But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 23:39

    Matthew 23:39 (ESV)
    For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Joshua 1:7

    Joshua 1:7 (ESV)
    Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Luke 4:18

    Luke 4:18 (ESV)
    "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • We Continually Stray

    The bible talks over and over again about God giving us second third and fourth chances. This keeps happening because the God we follow is merciful. But, these second chances are only necessary because…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Judges 21:25 (ESV), Isaiah 53:1 (ESV)

  • Zechariah 9:9

    Zechariah 9:9 (ESV)
    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-04-18

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-04-14

  • Dishonor

    David says that God knows his dishonor and shame as well as his foes Because of the sentence structure we see that David's sin (dishonor and shame) are the same things as his foes David hates his sin…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Psalm 69:19 (ESV)

  • East to the West

    God is amazing. This verse says that He casts our sin as far from us as the east is from the west (if we ask him to) The really remarkable thing however is the language that He chose: God could have…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Psalm 103:12 (ESV)

  • We are the Prey

    This chapter, though it was written over 3000 years ago, generally sums up the apostasy that has occurred in our society today millions "grope along the walls like the blind" trying desperately to find…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Isaiah 59:15 (ESV)

  • God Searches

    God is desperately looking throughout the earth to find people who have given their whole heart to him. Why? So he can strengthen them! (see also Isaiah 53:12) This is how we become lights of the world…

    Created about 1 year ago

    2 Chronicles 16:1 (ESV), Psalm 14:2 (ESV), Isaiah 53:12 (ESV)

  • Thoughts

    These things are the things that Paul said we must be constantly thinking about- nothing else. So, whenever we aren't sure if our thoughts are sinful or not, we should check them against this The goal…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Philippians 4:8 (ESV), 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-03-29

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-03-28

  • Holding Things Together

    In biology, the small members of the amino acid family called "laminins" are what literally hold together the cells of all animal tissues. Interestingly, even though Paul wrote Colossians roughly 2000…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Colossians 1:17 (ESV)

  • Jesus is God and He created all things

    Jehovah's witnesses claim that Jesus created everything except himself, and god created him. this verse(John 1:3) suggests that Jesus is god, and that Jesus(god) created all things

    Created about 1 year ago

    John 1:3 (ESV), Colossians 1:16 (ESV), Colossians 1:17 (ESV)

  • Called out of Egypt

    Fulfilling the prophesy, God tells Joseph to take Jesus and Mary to Egypt

    Created about 1 year ago

    Hosea 11:1 (ESV), Matthew 2:15 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-03-26

  • Sent

    We are sent by Jesus just like God sent him. 1 Peter says that our goal should be to bring him glory- that's why we were chosen and then SENT

    Created about 1 year ago

    John 1:14 (ESV), John 20:20 (ESV), 1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)