Mark Hoffman

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  • Melchizedek 2

    Hebrews 7:1-28 (NET)
    Now this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him.

    Created 1 day ago

  • Melchizedek and Christ

    Acts 2:29-36 (NET)
    “Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

    Created 1 day ago

  • Melchizedek 1

    Genesis 14:17-20 (NET)
    After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (known as the King’s Valley).

    Created 1 day ago

  • Melchizedek

    Psalm 110:1-7 (NET)
    Here is the Lord’s proclamation to my lord: “Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”

    Created 1 day ago

  • Messianic prophesy

    Psalm 110:1-4 (NET)
    Here is the Lord’s proclamation to my lord: “Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”

    Created 14 days ago

    Labels: god's reign jesus messianic prophecy

  • Psalm 50:18

    Psalm 50:18 (NET)
    When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Psalm 19:12-14

    Psalm 19:12-14 (NET)
    Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Psalm 19:1

    Psalm 19:1 (NET)
    The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Saved by grace of Jesus

    This is a big change in thinking for many Jews, who believed they were saved because they were a part of Israel, or saved because of the Law that they followed, though salvation had always been through…

    Created 21 days ago

    Acts 15:11 (NET)

  • Psalm 46:10

    Psalm 46:10 (NET)
    He says, “Stop your striving and recognize that I am God! I will be exalted over the nations! I will be exalted over the earth!”

    Created 21 days ago

  • Psalm 46:10

    Psalm 46:10 (NET)
    He says, “Stop your striving and recognize that I am God! I will be exalted over the nations! I will be exalted over the earth!”

    Created 21 days ago

  • Ephesians 4:17

    Ephesians 4:17 (NET)
    So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Matthew 6:32

    Matthew 6:32 (NET)
    For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Micah 7:19

    Micah 7:19 (NET)
    You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Micah 7:19

    Micah 7:19 (NET)
    You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Micah 7:19

    Micah 7:19 (NET)
    You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Proverbs 7:1

    Proverbs 7:1 (NET)
    My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Psalm 127:1

    Psalm 127:1 (NET)
    If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Psalm 97:1

    Psalm 97:1 (NET)
    The Lord reigns! Let the earth be happy! Let the many coastlands rejoice!

    Created 2 months ago

  • Recognizing our sin

    Here is the double edged offense of pride. It is a sin against God in that we are trying to take His rightful place as the center and focus of our life, and it is pride that blinds us and prevents us…

    Created 3 months ago

    Psalm 36:1 (NET), Psalm 36:2 (NET)

  • Recognizing our sin

    Here is the double edged offense of pride. It is a sin against God in that we are trying to take His rightful place as the center and focus of our life, and it is pride that blinds us and prevents us…

    Created 3 months ago

    Psalm 36:1 (NET), Psalm 36:2 (NET)

  • Psalm 36:2

    Psalm 36:2 (NET)
    for he is too proud to recognize and give up his sin.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Called to walk as Jesus walked

    1 John 2:6 (NET)
    The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Mark 2:23

    Mark 2:23 (NET)
    Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Mixed motives

    I don't think we ever do anything with completely pure motives. Sin comes from the heart, it isn't just what we do. However God sees our heart and is willing to work with our mixed motives. I commit myself…

    Created 3 months ago

    Proverbs 16:2 (NET)

  • Proverbs 16:2

    Proverbs 16:2 (NET)
    All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Mark 1:17

    Mark 1:17 (NET)
    Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

    Created 3 months ago

  • 1 Peter 2:4-5, 1 Peter 2:9-12

    1 Peter 2:4-5 (NET)
    So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God’s sight,

    1 Peter 2:9-12 (NET)
    But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Exodus 19:5-6

    Exodus 19:5-6 (NET)
    And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

    Created 3 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge

    2012-02-24

  • Earned a Badge — Completed 3 Reading Plans

    2012-02-13

  • If we are saved we are called

    This reflects Matt 4:19 where Jesus calls the disciples to follow him (salvation) and gives them the high calling of fishing for men.

    Created 4 months ago

    2 Timothy 1:9 (NET)

  • Distractions

    It isn't clear to me that these people are not Christians. It just says that they don't bear fruit. I think this is an apt description of the church in America today. We have become distracted by so many…

    Created 4 months ago

    Mark 4:19 (NET)

  • God's Presence

    This is our true reward, just as God was the inheritance of the Levites, so ultimately He is the reward of all who know Him. He will dwell with us and we shall see Him face to face.

    Created 4 months ago

    Revelation 21:3 (NET)

  • The grace of God trains us...

    Here Paul tells us that the grace of God trains us to reject ungodliness. How does it do that? The problem that we have is that even if we know God's law and know what is right, we cannot consistently…

    Created 4 months ago

    Titus 2:11 (NET), Titus 2:12 (NET), Titus 2:13 (NET)

  • God will conquer our sin

    Micah says that God will conquer our sin. This is amazing and certainly deserves much thought. What does it mean that He will conquer our sin? Obviously this happened in Jesus, who conquered sin and death.…

    Created 4 months ago

    Micah 7:18 (NET), Micah 7:19 (NET)

  • The importance of experiencing God's presence

    Here we see that a generation came up that did not experience God's working and His presence like the previous generation had. In the desert, Moses wouldn't move unless God went with the people of Israel.…

    Created 4 months ago

    Judges 2:10 (NET)

  • Christ in me

    Paul has been so changed by grace that he could say that it was Christ living in him. Do we try to live on our own or have we given ourselves completely to Jesus so that like Paul, we can say Christ lives…

    Created 5 months ago

    Galatians 2:20 (NET)

  • Idiots

    The J.B. Philips translation has this starting out, "Dear idiots!" I like that - it gets the point across!

    Created 5 months ago

    Galatians 3:1 (NET)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2012-01-02

  • Christ's blood is for all time

    God is outside of time. He foreknew Christ's sacrifice for our sins, and through Christ forgiveness is possible - for those before Christ and after.

    Created 6 months ago

    1 Peter 1:20 (NET)

  • The new Israel, the Church - a kingdom of priests

    The Church is God's people, the remnant from Israel, the true Israel. Peter here is showing how the church is now fulfilling the call that God gave to Israel. The church is to be a royal priesthood, a…

    Created 6 months ago

    Exodus 19:6 (NET), 1 Peter 2:9 (NET)

  • Bondservant to God

    The Greek word doulos doesn't have an exact corollary in todays English. Many translations put it as "slave", but that doesn't get at the exact meaning. A closer translation would be "bondservant" which…

    Created 6 months ago

    Titus 1:1 (NET)

  • The Faithful One

    Who is like our God? He is the faithful one. Faithfulness is part of His very nature. But what is God faithful to? Every good and perfect gift comes from our Father above - James 1. Everything that is…

    Created 6 months ago

    2 Timothy 2:11 (NET), 2 Timothy 2:12 (NET), 2 Timothy 2:13 (NET)

  • God is one

    This also affirms that Christians believe God is one, not three as some (esp Muslims) may say we believe. It also says that this simple belief is no enough.

    Created 6 months ago

    James 2:19 (NET)

  • Showing prejudice

    I hate it when people look at me and immediately dismiss me because I am not tall and beautiful. They judge me by appearances and they judge wrongly. God help me, I do this same thing to others all too…

    Created 6 months ago

    James 2:8 (NET), James 2:9 (NET)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-11-29

  • Slaves to Christ

    Many translations translate the Greek word doulos as "servant" but the original meaning doesnt mean someone who is freely serving another in the way we understand servant to mean today. Rather it means…

    Created 6 months ago

    James 1:1 (NET)

  • what have you witnessed?

    Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses. Being a witness means you have seen and experienced something. We are called to be witnesses but first we are called to experience life with…

    Created 7 months ago

    1 John 1:1 (HCSB), 1 John 1:2 (HCSB), 1 John 1:3 (HCSB), 1 John 1:4 (HCSB)

  • acceptance

    While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God accepts us despite our sin, without conditionsvand not based on our performance. How then should we not also accept others the same way?

    Created 7 months ago

    Romans 15:7 (NLT)

  • struggle against sin

    The disciples used to encourage each other by remining themselves that they must suffer many things before inheriting the kingdom. These sufferings included the temptations of the flesh and this world.…

    Created 7 months ago

    Hebrews 12:4 (NET)

  • Our priestly inheritance

    The Levites didn't inherit any of the land that was promised to Israel. This was the Promised Land - which had been promised to their forefather, Abraham, all the way down through the generations. This…

    Created 7 months ago

    Deuteronomy 10:8 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:9 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:17 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:18 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:19 (NLT), Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT), 1 Peter 2:5 (NLT), 1 Peter 2:9 (NLT)

  • Love the foreigners

    God is holy and just. He shows love to the outcasts and foreigners. We also, must do the same, if we care for the things God cares about.

    Created 7 months ago

    Deuteronomy 10:17 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:18 (NLT), Deuteronomy 10:19 (NLT), Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT)

  • A Servant's heart

    This is interesting. The ones on the right, the sheep, were not aware of the times that they had served Jesus. They were not keeping a record of their good deeds, nor were they assuming the mantle of…

    Created 7 months ago

    Matthew 25:34 (NLT), Matthew 25:35 (NLT), Matthew 25:36 (NLT), Matthew 25:37 (NLT), Matthew 25:38 (NLT)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-04-19

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-01-18

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-01-18

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-01-16

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-01-05