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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-03-01
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Walking by sight and not by faith
I find it most interesting that those adults who were witness to the most visibly spectacular miracles in human history ultimately were judged for their lack of faith. How often do we think, "If I could…
Created 11 months ago
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Highly Regarded by the People
We often, as Christians, have this idea that the Jewish people en masse simply rejected Jesus and his followers right out of the gate. We hear it preached that "One week they were hailing him, 'Hosanna',…
Created about 1 year ago
John 18:28 (NIV), John 18:38 (NIV), John 18:39 (NIV), John 18:40 (NIV), John 19:6 (NIV), Acts 5:13 (NIV)
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Who Conspired Against Jesus?
For years, "Christians" have charged Jews with being "Christ-killers." Acts 4:27 makes it clear that the conspiracy was all-encompassing - Herod, Pilate, Gentiles and the people of Israel in Jerusalem."…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-03-10
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Turning the question around
Darrell Bock writes: But really Jesus has turned the question around. His questioner had asked, "Will the saved be few?" Jesus replies with the question, "Will the saved be you?"
Created about 1 year ago
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Possessions in charge
Bock writes: The ancient historian Plutarch said, "Greed never rests from the acquiring of more." When possessions are the goal, people become pawns. In fact, a reversal of the created order occurs,…
Created about 1 year ago
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Fear God - public vs private
Bock writes: Given the pressure to do one thing in public and another in private, Jesus reminds the disciples that they should fear God.
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-03-07
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Public vs Private doesn't exist
Bock writes: What is done the basement will be revealed on the mountaintops. We may divide our activities into public and private, visible and unseen, but there is no such division with God's vision.…
Created about 1 year ago
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Rocky Road Ahead
Bock (IVP NT Commentary Series, Luke) explains: The disciple's hand is to stay at the plow. This remark makes great sense in a Palestinian setting, since the land there is rocky. The person who looked…
Created over 1 year ago
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Succoth
Writes Bock: Peter suggests they together celebrate Tabernacles, a feast that looked forward to the eschaton (also called the Feast of Ingathering, Ex. 23:16; 34:22; Lev. 23:34; Deut :13; Zech 14:16-21).…
Created over 1 year ago
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One-way Journey
Writes Leon Morris (Commentary on Luke): When a man from one of their villages took up a cross and went off with a little band of Roman soldiers, he was on a one-way journey. He would not be back. Taking…
Created over 1 year ago
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Messianic Secret
Bock (IVP NT Commentary, Luke) writes: Jesus' command shows that he wanted to communicate certain facts about this title to the disciples before it was bandied about in public. There was much potential…
Created over 1 year ago
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Personal Understanding of Messiah
In his commentary on Luke, Leon Morris writes the following: In all three Synoptics, his youis emphatic. In distinction from others, he is asking, what do youthink? The knowledge of Messiah (Christ)…
Created over 1 year ago
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Focus on the Word or on the circumstance?
Bock writes: This parable is not about a response to the word at any given moment. It sums up the different ways the word is received over a lifetime of exposure. It takes time t fall away from an initial…
Created over 1 year ago
Luke 8:12 (NIV), Luke 8:13 (NIV), Luke 8:14 (NIV), Luke 8:15 (NIV)
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The process of evangelism
Writes Darrell Bock in his IVP Commentary on Luke: The picture of the word as seed is important. Often we think of evangelism and preaching as something that happens in an instant. But the picture of…
Created over 1 year ago
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The "non-Prophet" prophecy
Bock writes: Jesus' evaluation of the woman's act comes in a parable, which Luke tells with much irony. The Pharisee doubts that Jesus is a prophet, yet Jesus has read his mind, as his response shows!…
Created over 1 year ago
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Legalism
In his IVP Commentary on Luke, Darrell Bock writes the following: Perhaps if Jesus were ministering today as he did in the first century, some of us too would complain that he was getting too close to…
Created over 1 year ago
Luke 7:31 (NIV), Luke 7:32 (NIV), Luke 7:33 (NIV), Luke 7:34 (NIV), Luke 7:35 (NIV)
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Jeremiah 1:17
Jeremiah 1:17 (NIV)
"Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-02-17
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-02-16
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Philippians 4:5
Philippians 4:5 (NIV)
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-02-10
