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  • Inherit the Wind

    One of the most assigned reads for English students, I wonder if anyone really knows that the title refers to this scripture.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Proverbs 11:29 (NLT)

  • How He loves us 3

    Sometimes I wish the scriptures were more narrative in their depiction of Jesus. Many times, information and descriptions are given in such a straight forward way that I have a difficult time picturing…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Luke 7:12 (NLT), Luke 7:13 (NLT), Luke 7:14 (NLT), Luke 7:15 (NLT)

  • John the Baptist

    Other than the baptism scene when Jesus goes to John the Baptist to be immersed, this is the most interaction I know of between these two. Jesus says good things about him, and blatantly declares JTB…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Luke 7:24 (NLT), Luke 7:25 (NLT), Luke 7:26 (NLT), Luke 7:27 (NLT), Luke 7:28 (NLT)

  • Who is like Him?

    People alone would never have come up with the amazing set of laws that have preceded this. God in His great wisdom gave the most comprehensive, just, and compassionate laws the world had ever seen. No…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Deuteronomy 4:7 (NLT), Deuteronomy 4:8 (NLT)

  • Psalm 65:1

    Psalm 65:1 (NLT)
    What mighty praise, OGod, belongs to you in Zion. We will fulfill our vows to you,

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Beauty

    Beauty is skin deep, pretty is as pretty does...another variation on a timeless truth--and a brilliant one

    Created about 1 year ago

    Proverbs 11:22 (NLT)

  • Balaam 2

    I didn't realize Balaam was part of that situation, so I went back and checked the scriptures regarding the Israelites defiling themselves sexually and spiritually in Peor. Balaam isn't mentioned, but…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 31:15 (NLT), Numbers 31:16 (NLT)

  • Not again!

    Tsk tsk tsk...Israelites not following God's orders again. Will they never learn? Whenever God tells the Israelites to wipe out a community and they don't, you can bet the problem will come back bigger…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 31:14 (NLT), Numbers 31:15 (NLT), Numbers 31:16 (NLT)

  • Balaam

    I'm sorry to hear that Balaam came to a violent end despite the Lord choosing him to be a messenger to Balak. I picture him as being one of those shifty characters in movies who is really out for himself,…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 31:7 (NLT), Numbers 31:8 (NLT)

  • wine

    One of my parents' friends and our former minister was a highly educated Hebrew scholar. He believed and lived by the belief that when people spoke of wine in the Bible they were actually speaking of…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 28:7 (NLT)

  • Women's rights 3

    This another one of those places where women are validated in a big way. Women in most countries weren't considered more than property, much less given property! I keep track of all of the places in the…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 27:1 (NLT), Numbers 27:2 (NLT), Numbers 27:3 (NLT), Numbers 27:4 (NLT), Numbers 27:5 (NLT), Numbers 27:6 (NLT), Numbers 27:7 (NLT), Numbers 27:8 (NLT)

  • LOTR

    I love it when I find fictional characters or places that actually have borrowed names from true life Biblical people or places. For example: Gilead is in LOTR, Tarshish is in Chronicles of Narnia, Elessar…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 27:1 (NLT)

  • Marathon

    The Greek word here for "stands firm" means to "remain under". Our first reaction to persecution is to get away...but most every time the price of escape is compromise of our beliefs. Jesus tells us we…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Mark 13:13 (NLT)

  • A little mouthy?

    If my child had answered me that way, I would have thought him very disrespectful and thoughtless, especially considering the fact that they had to go all the way back to Jersalem after having left the…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Luke 2:49 (NLT), Luke 2:50 (NLT)

  • Proverbs 11:14

    Proverbs 11:14 (NLT)
    Without wise leadership, a nation falls; there is safety in having many advisers.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Different reactions to similar news

    How different Mary's reaction is compared to others when given news of a baby to be conceived under "impossible" circumstances! Consider Sarah's derisive laughter when she overheard God's messengers telling…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Luke 1:28 (NLT), Luke 1:29 (NLT), Luke 1:30 (NLT), Luke 1:31 (NLT), Luke 1:32 (NLT), Luke 1:33 (NLT), Luke 1:34 (NLT), Luke 1:35 (NLT), Luke 1:36 (NLT), Luke 1:37 (NLT), Luke 1:38 (NLT)

  • Odd

    Soooo, Golden calf bad, bronze snake good? Interesting...

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 21:8 (NLT), Numbers 21:9 (NLT)

  • Hard Hearted

    I am a little puzzled by how many times the Israelites go through this same cycle. They had Moses, who spoke DIRECTLY to God, the physical manifestation of the cloud and the fire, not to mention the abundance…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 21:4 (NLT), Numbers 21:5 (NLT), Numbers 21:6 (NLT), Numbers 21:7 (NLT)

  • Sounds like...

    The scriptures I have chosen to highlight in this Psalm sound very much like the verbal abuse Jesus faced the eve of his arrest and subsequent death from the temple leaders. The other scriptures I chose…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Psalm 55:1 (NLT), Psalm 55:2 (NLT), Psalm 55:3 (NLT), Psalm 55:20 (NLT), Psalm 55:21 (NLT)

  • Too little, too late

    The people now realized how their temper tantrums and whiny ways have pretty much ruined the rest of their lives. They try to back up and reverse their earlier positions, but they don't realize that God…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Numbers 14:40 (NLT)

  • Love this verse

    Jesus said we would still be discussing this act by the woman with the perfume--it's a Bible story taught to most children in Sunday School...I remember the fuzzy board with the pictures.

    Created about 1 year ago

    Mark 14:9 (NLT)

  • Chronicles of Narnia

    Tarshish is a geographic location in the Chronicles of Narnia! The people who live there seem middle eastern...

    Created about 1 year ago

    Psalm 48:7 (NLT)

  • Henry the VIII

    It annoys me completely that Henry the VIII abused this law abominably in order to nullify his marriage to Queen Katherine of Aragon. She was originally married to his older brother Arthur, who died at…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Leviticus 20:21 (NLT)

  • Mark 12:38

    Mark 12:38 (NLT)
    Jesus also taught: “Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Health Code

    It is obvious why God gave us this instruction: the meat would be spoiled by the third day. And the punishment for the sin of eating it anyway? How about food poisoning? Maybe that's not what God meant…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Leviticus 7:17 (NLT), Leviticus 7:18 (NLT)

  • Revelation 3:13

    Revelation 3:13 (NLT)
    “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • John 3:16

    John 3:16 (NLT)
    “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Philippians 4:11

    Philippians 4:11 (NLT)
    Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Acts 16:21

    Acts 16:21 (NLT)
    “They are teaching customs that are illegal for us Romans to practice.”

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Philippians 2:5

    Philippians 2:5 (NLT)
    You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Golden calf saves Israel?

    Seriously?? They were praising the calf for bringing them out of Egypt? It sounds like a very bad joke...and Aaron is loving the attention. I shouldn't judge, but it's hard not to. These people had clear…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Exodus 32:4 (NLT), Exodus 32:5 (NLT)

  • Sharper than a serpent's tooth is an ungrateful child

    After all that the Hebrews had seen and been through with Moses, now they're freaking out because (like sheep) they need someone they can see to follow. Their faith in God has flown away, and they're…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Exodus 32:1 (NLT)

  • Psalm 32:1

    Psalm 32:1 (NLT)
    Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight!

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Psalm 31:9

    Psalm 31:9 (NLT)
    Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. Tears blur my eyes. My body and soul are withering away.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Super crafty!

    God Himself sent His Spirit to guide the craftsman in their appointed tasks--creating an amazing wardrobe for Aaron His high priest. Beat that, Hollywood stylists!

    Created about 1 year ago

    Exodus 28:3 (NLT)

  • Hebrews 8:12

    Hebrews 8:12 (NLT)
    And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.”

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-03-06

  • Romans 12:19

    Romans 12:19 (NLT)
    Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, “I will take revenge; I will pay them back,” says the LORD.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 7:24

    Romans 7:24 (NLT)
    Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Psalm 30:11

    Psalm 30:11 (NLT)
    You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Psalm 30:4

    Psalm 30:4 (NLT)
    Sing to the LORD, all you godly ones! Praise his holy name.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Exodus 24:10

    Exodus 24:10 (NLT)
    There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • 1 Peter 4:10

    1 Peter 4:10 (NLT)
    God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Acts 20:24

    Acts 20:24 (NLT)
    But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Philippians 3:13

    Philippians 3:13 (NLT)
    No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Ephesians 2:7

    Ephesians 2:7 (NLT)
    So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus.

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Romans 6:22

    Romans 6:22 (NLT)
    But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Romans 3:23

    Romans 3:23 (NLT)
    For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

    Created over 1 year ago

  • Proverbs 6:6

    Proverbs 6:6 (NLT)
    Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Proverbs 5:15

    Proverbs 5:15 (NLT)
    Drink water from your own well— share your love only with your wife.

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Proverbs 5:16

    Proverbs 5:16 (NLT)
    Why spill the water of your springs in the streets, having sex with just anyone?

    Created over 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-02-14

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-02-02

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-01-20

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2011-01-10

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2010-12-26

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2010-12-26