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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-12-30
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-12-13
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-10-10
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Israel
Isaiah 27:6 (NIV)
In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.Created 8 months ago
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2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
'Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!' This is such a great translation, and such a fathomless thought! If someone, anyone, is in Messiah,…
Created 9 months ago
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Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
I want to have good understanding. I want to have wisdom to know what will work, what will bring life, what will move us forward to Godliness and contentment. So why do I keep trusting in my own ways?…
Created 9 months ago
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Psalm 110 The LORD says to my Lord
We like that verse. Jesus liked it. Peter liked it. Yhwh maker of heaven and earth commissioning his messiah, the son of David who is David's lord. "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek."…
Created 9 months ago
Psalm 110:1 (NIV), Psalm 110:2 (NIV), Psalm 110:3 (NIV), Psalm 110:4 (NIV), Psalm 110:5 (NIV), Psalm 110:6 (NIV), Psalm 110:7 (NIV)
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Psalm 81:10 Open wide your mouth and I will fill it
This seems like a funny saying at first. But Yhwh is saying to his people, the Israelites whom he has rescued from out of Egypt, that he will feed them if they will just look to him, if they will just…
Created 10 months ago
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Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
That, to my amazement, is my daily experience. I scratch my head and wonder at the unreasonable extent of his kindness. I keep trying to find justification for his generosity in my life, in my good behaviour,…
Created 11 months ago
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Acts 22:24 the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged...
Just as Yeshua was taken by Pilate to be flogged, so Paul is now following in his footsteps, ready to take up his cross and follow his master. Paul is shown by Luke to be the model disciple. We also…
Created 11 months ago
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Job 38:2 "Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge?
There are words of knowledge, and there are words without knowledge. A lot of true and accurate things have been spoken by Job and to Job. But sometimes the greater knowledge is to know that we don't…
Created 11 months ago
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Job 3:25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.
But not, contrary to popular interpretation, because he feared it. The reason for Job's trials had more to do with his righteousness than his fearfulness
Created 11 months ago
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Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation...
This statement is remarkable on more than one count. Firstly it says that Yhwh moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia, even though we are told in Isaiah that Cyrus did not know or acknowledge Yhwh. In…
Created 12 months ago
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John 12:29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered
I wonder how often God is speaking, clearly and plainly and tangibly revealing himself, and we dismiss it as thunder. We hear what we want to hear and see what we expect to see. What we do not expect…
Created 12 months ago
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John 11:24 NIV 24 Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
How did Martha know that? How was she so confident? It's hard to find such certainty of resurrection in the Jewish scriptures, though it is there if you look for it. But surely her confidence came from…
Created 12 months ago
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Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families
The pattern of government of leadership, the stewardship accountable oversight, was the same throughout the old and new testaments, and lay with the heads of families. These were also called elders.…
Created about 1 year ago
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Now David had brought up the ark of God... But the bronze altar... was in Gibeon
What a remarkable, presumptious, audacious move on the part of David to separate the throne and manifest presence of Yhwh on earth from the place of sacrifice. Yhwh still met with Solomon at the place…
Created about 1 year ago
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1 Chronicles 1:1-3 NIV Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.
No introduction, no preface. Just ten names. That is how Chronicles begins. These are the names of the ten ancestors we all share in common; every person who lives and has ever lived shares these ten…
Created about 1 year ago
1 Chronicles 1:1 (NIV), 1 Chronicles 1:2 (NIV), 1 Chronicles 1:3 (NIV)
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2 Kings 25:29 NIV So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table.
There comes a day, even in the midst of our failure, defeat and exile from the land of God's promises, when it is time to put off our prison clothes and eat regularly at the king's table. Mephibosheth,…
Created about 1 year ago
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'Don't be afraid', the prophet answered
As a result of Gehazi's greed in taking goods from Naaman, Elisha had put the leprosy of Naaman on to Gehazi and his descendants after him. But he did not turn him out. Gehazi continued to serve as Elisha's…
Created about 1 year ago
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for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I gave chosen
It was not only for the sake of David that Yhwh safeguarded David's lineage of royal rulers. It was also for the sake of Jerusalem, the city if David, which Yhwh chose for himself when David chose it…
Created about 1 year ago
1 Kings 11:13 (NIV), 1 Kings 11:14 (NIV), 1 Kings 11:32 (NIV), 1 Kings 11:36 (NIV)
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When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the LORD
Huh, I never noticed that before! It wasn't just his wisdom that she had heard about, but rather, his relationship to Yhwh. As Solomon intercoursed with Yhwh, in the midst of the many challenging and…
Created about 1 year ago
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and David's sons were priests
What?!? David's sons were priests?! Wait a minute. David was of the tribe of Judah. Judahites were not priests. The priesthood came from the tribe of Levi - and not just any Levite, but from the sons…
Created about 1 year ago
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every two lengths of them were put to death
In any other context this act of genocide would be considered the most heartless, soulless, Godless evil. Perhaps that is what we consider it to be. Perhaps David, worshipper of Yhwh, writer of psalms,…
Created about 1 year ago
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Then King David went in and sat before the LORD
Thid is one my favourite sentences in the Bible. There is a time when the kindness and overwhelming generosity of God so surprises us, who are so conscious of deserving the very opposite, that it just…
Created about 1 year ago
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Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic
Making room for others, releasing a next generation, does not mean dressing them up in our clothes. It means trusting that God has equipped them just as he once equipped you; it means allowing them to…
Created about 1 year ago
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his spear.. weighed six hundred shekels
The things that intimidate us about those who oppose God, the weight of their weaponry and gravity of their arguments, may turn out to be more of a handicap than a help. We have no need to pick up the…
Created about 1 year ago
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Exodus 35:21
Exodus 35:21 (NIV)
and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.Created about 1 year ago
Labels: finances
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Luke 3:10
Luke 3:10 (NIV)
"What should we do then?" the crowd asked.Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 3:12
Luke 3:12 (NIV)
Even tax collectors came to be baptized. "Teacher," they asked, "what should we do?"Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 3:13
Luke 3:13 (NIV)
"Don't collect any more than you are required to," he told them.Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 3:14
Luke 3:14 (NIV)
Then some soldiers asked him, "And what should we do?" He replied, "Don't extort money and don't accuse people falsely—be content with your pay."Created about 1 year ago
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Luke 3:11
Luke 3:11 (NIV)
John answered, "Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same."Created about 1 year ago
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What should we do then? - Money
Interesting that John the Baptiser's answers were all about money and material resources: 1. share whatever you have with those who do not 2. don't take more than is due to you, and 3. be content with…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-02-09
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Exodus 35:21
Exodus 35:21 (NIV)
and everyone who was willing and whose heart moved them came and brought an offering to the lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the sacred garments.Created over 1 year ago
Labels: giving
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-02-04
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Exodus 34:7
Exodus 34:7 (NIV)
maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation."Created over 1 year ago
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Exodus 34:6
Exodus 34:6 (NIV)
And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The lord, the lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-01-03
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Genesis 8:11
Genesis 8:11 (NIV)
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-01-02
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-02
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