Jamie McDonald

Follow up!!

Acts 15:36 (NLT)
After some time Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit each city where we previously preached the word of the Lord, to see how the new believers are doing.”

2 Peter 3:9

2 Peter 3:9 (NLT)
The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.

Offering talk 4.1.12

2 Corinthians 5:18 (NIV84)
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

2 Kings 6:1-7

2 Kings 6:1-7 (NIV84)
The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us.

Discipleship requires time

Mark 9:31 (NLT)
for he wanted to spend more time with his disciples and teach them. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but three days later he will rise from the dead.”

Spiritual Authority

Hebrews 13:17 (NLT)
Obey your spiritual leaders, and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls, and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit.

Psalm 39:6

Psalm 39:6 (NLT)
We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it.

Leviticus 13:40

Leviticus 13:40 (NLT)
“If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.

Psalm 37:23

Psalm 37:23 (NLT)
The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.

Psalm 37:21

Psalm 37:21 (NLT)
The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.

Psalm 141:3

Psalm 141:3 (NLT)
Take control of what I say, OLORD, and guard my lips.

Proverbs 18:7

Proverbs 18:7 (NLT)
The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.

Proverbs 18:9

Proverbs 18:9 (NLT)
A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.

Proverbs 18:14

Proverbs 18:14 (NLT)
The human spirit can endure a sick body, but who can bear a crushed spirit?

Matthew 21:21

Matthew 21:21 (NIV84)
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done.

Matthew 20:31

Matthew 20:31 (NIV84)
The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

Psalm 24:10

Psalm 24:10 (NIV84)
Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty— he is the King of glory. Selah

Matthew 18:35

Matthew 18:35 (NIV84)
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”

Exodus 7:19

Exodus 7:19 (NIV84)
The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs’—and they will turn to blood. Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in the wooden buckets and stone jars.”

Exodus 6:8

Exodus 6:8 (NIV84)
And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.’ ”

Exodus 4:12

Exodus 4:12 (NIV84)
Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

Matthew 13:52

Matthew 13:52 (NLT)
Then he added, “Every teacher of religious law who becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings from his storeroom new gems of truth as well as old.”

Matthew 13:21

Matthew 13:21 (NLT)
But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.

Matthew 13:22

Matthew 13:22 (NLT)
The seed that fell among the thorns represents those who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life and the lure of wealth, so no fruit is produced.

Matthew 13:23

Matthew 13:23 (NLT)
The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”