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  • Leviticus 19:2, Leviticus 19:15, Leviticus 19:18

    Leviticus 19:2 (NLT)
    “Give the following instructions to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    Leviticus 19:15 (NLT)
    “Do not twist justice in legal matters by favoring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly.

    Leviticus 19:18 (NLT)
    “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against a fellow Israelite, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Leviticus 19:2, Leviticus 19:15

    Leviticus 19:2 (NLT)
    “Give the following instructions to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    Leviticus 19:15 (NLT)
    “Do not twist justice in legal matters by favoring the poor or being partial to the rich and powerful. Always judge people fairly.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Leviticus 19:2

    Leviticus 19:2 (NLT)
    “Give the following instructions to the entire community of Israel. You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Don't Judge Me

    DON’T JUDGE ME! The battle cry of the convicted.THERE IS ONLY ONE LAWGIVER AND JUDGE! A warning to the self-righteous.James 4:11-12 contains warnings against speaking evil, criticizing, and judging. …

    Created 4 months ago

    James 4:11 (KJV), James 4:12 (KJV)

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    2012-01-04

  • Genesis 10:25

    Genesis 10:25 (NLT)
    Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means “division”), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother’s name was Joktan.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Genesis 10:5

    Genesis 10:5 (NLT)
    Their descendants became the seafaring peoples that spread out to various lands, each identified by its own language, clan, and national identity.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Genesis 10:5

    Genesis 10:5 (NIV84)
    (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.) The Hamites

    Created 5 months ago

  • The Wise Men vs the Christian

    The journey of the Wise Men is a big deal. First (Matt 2:1), they aren't Jews and yet they are more intent on finding the Messiah than any Jew (with the exception of Herod, who only wants to find him…

    Created 6 months ago

    Matthew 2:1 (NLT), Matthew 2:2 (NLT)

  • Disciplinary Reaction

    Discipline demands a response. In James 4:1-3 the first round was fired. In James 4:4-6 the second round. Now, what do we do about it. Discipline never feels good, at least not to me. At the heart of…

    Created 6 months ago

    James 4:7 (NLT), James 4:8 (NLT), James 4:9 (NLT), James 4:10 (NLT)

  • Double Barrel Discipline II

    "You adulterous people!" BAM! That's the second round. The first round has already been fired. That's the nature of double barreled discipline. Two barrels, two shots. Let's face it, this whole letter…

    Created 6 months ago

    James 4:4 (KJV), James 4:5 (KJV), James 4:6 (KJV)

  • Double Barrel Discipline I

    Wait. What? One sentence earlier James wrote, “And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace (James 3:18 ESV).” Peace? James wants to talk about peace and then he unloads the…

    Created 7 months ago

    James 4:1 (NLT), James 4:2 (NLT), James 4:3 (NLT)

  • Crocodile Hunter

    If you needed to tame a wild animal you'd want someone like the late great Steve Irwin to show you how.  If you want to tame the tongue you want Jesus to show you how.   Steve Irwin knew that he couldn't…

    Created 7 months ago

    James 3:6 (NLT), James 3:7 (NLT), James 3:8 (NLT), James 3:9 (NLT), James 3:10 (NLT), James 3:11 (NLT), James 3:12 (NLT)

  • John 4:22, John 4:25

    John 4:22 (ESV)
    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

    John 4:25 (ESV)
    The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."

    Created 7 months ago

  • Smokey the Bear

    A call to taming the tongue and for teachers to strive for correct teaching. "Dear brothers and sisters" : A soft tone. Perhaps some of them that James new personally wanted to teach and he knew they…

    Created 8 months ago

    James 3:1 (NLT), James 3:2 (NLT), James 3:3 (NLT), James 3:4 (NLT), James 3:5 (NLT), James 3:6 (NLT), James 3:7 (NLT), James 3:8 (NLT), James 3:9 (NLT), James 3:10 (NLT), James 3:11 (NLT), James 3:12 (NLT)

  • Paging Mr. Smarty Pants

    The meekness of wisdom is a peculiar phrase to me, but as I go back through scripture it becomes clear what James is referring to; wisdom is more than intelligence, wisdom is also a matter of character.…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 3:13 (ESV), James 3:14 (ESV), James 3:15 (ESV), James 3:16 (ESV), James 3:17 (ESV), James 3:18 (ESV)

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  • Living with a Dead Thing

    In the collection of passages of scripture that have caused confusion and debate this one is among the chief examples. At face value this passage appears to be in stark contradiction to Paul's letters…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:14 (ESV), James 2:15 (ESV), James 2:16 (ESV), James 2:17 (ESV), James 2:18 (ESV), James 2:19 (ESV), James 2:20 (ESV), James 2:21 (ESV), James 2:22 (ESV), James 2:23 (ESV), James 2:24 (ESV), James 2:25 (ESV), James 2:26 (ESV)

  • Jeremiah 2:33

    Jeremiah 2:33 (NLT)
    “How you plot and scheme to win your lovers. Even an experienced prostitute could learn from you!

    Created 10 months ago

  • Judged Merciful

    "judged by the law that sets you free" has got to be one of the most awkward statements our modern minds can hear. When we hear "judged" we think "condemned". When we hear "law" we think "constrained".…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:12 (NLT), James 2:13 (NLT)

  • Compartmentalization

    Could it be that some were justifying their favoritism by suggesting that they were simply "loving their neighbor?" It's entirely possible. James now calls them on the carpet for this absurdity. These…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:8 (NLT), James 2:9 (NLT), James 2:10 (NLT), James 2:11 (NLT)

  • Shooting Yourself in Your Favorite Foot

    Here's the real rub with favoritism: you're shooting yourself in the foot. James has just told the Believers that showing favoritism suggests that might not have faith in Jesus and that elevating the…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:5 (NLT), James 2:6 (NLT), James 2:7 (NLT)

  • Favorite Example

    James now proposes an example of favoritism among God's people. Giving the wealthy person a good seat while off handedly telling the poor to sit whereever. It makes me wonder what "the meeting" looked…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:2 (NLT), James 2:3 (NLT), James 2:4 (NLT)

  • Hard Questions

    This question by James is one of those difficult ones that most of us brush aside and say, "it doesn't apply to me." In the same way that Proverbs says that each man is convinced his way is the right…

    Created 10 months ago

    James 2:1 (NLT)

  • Speak God's Word Carefully.

    James wraps up the triumvirate of advice giving in James 1:19 with a short word about speaking. When someone speaks God's Word falsely they are a false teacher and scripture has dire warning for false…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:26 (NLT), James 1:27 (NLT)

  • Listen. Do. Listen. Do.

    Listening to God's Word must lead to action. The Gospel and the entire Word of God demands a response. If we are convicted of sin we must repent; if we have been shown the way of salvation we must show…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:22 (NLT), James 1:23 (NLT), James 1:24 (NLT), James 1:25 (NLT)

  • Quick! Slow down.

    In verse 18 James has just finished telling us that God gave birth to us by giving us his true word. Now he tells us what we should do about that. Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to get angry...this…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:19 (NLT), James 1:20 (NLT), James 1:21 (NLT)

  • Matthew has something to prove

    Consider what we already know about Matthew before he met Jesus: he was a tax collector, a publican, a Jew working for the Romans to cheat his own people and the people of God. It wouldn't be far fetched…

    Created 11 months ago

    Matthew 1:1 (ESV)

  • Every good gift

    Don't be misled is an emphatic understatement, a plea. Dear brothers and sisters, he says. Check the tone. James isn't wagging the finger, he is personally concerned for them. Every good and perfect…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:16 (ESV), James 1:17 (ESV), James 1:18 (ESV)

  • Birth of a dead thing

    First off James returns to his discussion on endurance through trials. Endurance has another benefit - the crown of life. Endurance, through testing and temptation, is a sign of those who love God.…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:12 (NLT), James 1:13 (NLT), James 1:14 (NLT), James 1:15 (NLT)

  • Secured by Wisdom

    James seems to shift ideas here; in the previous paragraph he was talking about trials, now he's talking about wisdom. Yet, there is a thread. As we endure trial we often have a lot of questions. Who…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:5 (ESV), James 1:6 (ESV), James 1:7 (ESV), James 1:8 (ESV)

  • Counter-Intuitive Joy

    Finding joy in trials is a must have character trait of the Christian. This is what makes the "feel-good-self-help-best-life" gospel so misleading. James says "when" not "if" we face trials. We will…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:2 (ESV), James 1:3 (ESV), James 1:4 (ESV)

  • Brother and Slave

    James, the author, is, by deduction, the half brother of Jesus. In Mark 6:3 James is identified as the son of Mary and Joseph which would make him the half brother of Jesus. The other possible author…

    Created 11 months ago

    James 1:1 (ESV)

  • Real Freedom

    To fully understand the extent of the Fruit of the Spirit you have to go back to Galatians 4:21-31 and understand the child of the slave and the child of promise. Christians are the child of promise.…

    Created 12 months ago

    Galatians 5:22 (ESV), Galatians 5:23 (ESV)

  • Isaiah 38:3

    Isaiah 38:3 (NLT)
    “Remember, OLORD, how I have always been faithful to you and have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.” Then he broke down and wept bitterly.

    Created 12 months ago

  • The God Who Speaks

    Paul is about to talk about Spiritual gifts because he wants the Corinthians to understand. The first critical difference is to understand that God speaks. The pagan gods were merely blocks of wood,…

    Created 12 months ago

    1 Corinthians 12:1 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:2 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:3 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:4 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:5 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:6 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:7 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:8 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:9 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:10 (NLT), 1 Corinthians 12:11 (NLT)

  • Isaiah 29:13

    Isaiah 29:13 (NLT)
    And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.

    Created 12 months ago

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    2011-06-05

  • Isaiah 13:11

    Isaiah 13:11 (NLT)
    “I, the LORD, will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the mighty.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Isaiah 11:9

    Isaiah 11:9 (NLT)
    Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so the earth will be filled with people who know the LORD.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Isaiah 9:16

    Isaiah 9:16 (NLT)
    For the leaders of the people have misled them. They have led them down the path of destruction.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 2 Kings 23:27

    2 Kings 23:27 (NLT)
    For the LORD said, “I will also banish Judah from my presence just as I have banished Israel. And I will reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the Temple where my name was to be honored.”

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 2 Kings 23:13

    2 Kings 23:13 (NLT)
    The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech, the vile god of the Ammonites.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 2 Kings 23:13

    2 Kings 23:13 (NLT)
    The king also desecrated the pagan shrines east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, where King Solomon of Israel had built shrines for Ashtoreth, the detestable goddess of the Sidonians; and for Chemosh, the detestable god of the Moabites; and for Molech, the vile god of the Ammonites.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 2 Kings 10:27

    2 Kings 10:27 (NLT)
    They smashed the sacred pillar and wrecked the temple of Baal, converting it into a public toilet, as it remains to this day.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 Kings 9:8

    1 Kings 9:8 (NLT)
    And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads in amazement. They will ask, ‘Why did the LORD do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • 1 Samuel 2:25

    1 Samuel 2:25 (NLT)
    If someone sins against another person, God can mediate for the guilty party. But if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede?” But Eli’s sons wouldn’t listen to their father, for the LORD was already planning to put them to death.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 1 Samuel 2:7

    1 Samuel 2:7 (NLT)
    The LORD makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Judges 21:14

    Judges 21:14 (NLT)
    Then the men of Benjamin returned to their homes, and the 400women of Jabesh-gilead who had been spared were given to them as wives. But there were not enough women for all of them.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Judges 13:18

    Judges 13:18 (NLT)
    “Why do you ask my name?” the angel of the LORD replied. “It is too wonderful for you to understand.”

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Joshua 22:5

    Joshua 22:5 (NLT)
    But be very careful to obey all the commands and the instructions that Moses gave to you. Love the LORD your God, walk in all his ways, obey his commands, hold firmly to him, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul.”

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Joshua 21:45

    Joshua 21:45 (NLT)
    Not a single one of all the good promises the LORD had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Joshua 11:19

    Joshua 11:19 (NLT)
    No one in this region made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites of Gibeon. All the others were defeated.

    Created about 1 year ago

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