Jacob Oglesby

  • jakets
  • Hahira, Georgia
  • Lover of Jesus. Growing disciple. Beginning apologist.
  • My God, my God

    My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you…

    Created 10 days ago

    Matthew 27:46 (ESV)

  • Pain for all to repent?

    Isaiah 1:28 (ESV)
    But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Redemption

    Isaiah 1:24-26 (ESV)
    Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.

    Created 17 days ago

  • Psalm 110:1

    Psalm 110:1 (ESV)
    The Lord says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool."

    Created 25 days ago

  • Luke 1:30

    Luke 1:30 (ESV)
    And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

    Created 26 days ago

  • "now"

    This was so the world would know Abraham was willing to obey the Lord. God already knew.

    Created about 1 month ago

    Genesis 22:12 (ESV)

  • Golgotha

    Some think this is the same place that Jesus was sacrificed on Golgotha.

    Created about 1 month ago

    Genesis 22:14 (ESV)

  • Lamb and Ram

    Abraham said a lamb would be provided- but what he was given was a ram to offer. There is a difference. The Lamb didn't arrive until Jesus came!

    Created about 1 month ago

    Genesis 22:8 (ESV)

  • Know your Word

    Hosea 4:1 (NLT)
    Hear the word of the LORD, Opeople of Israel! The LORD has brought charges against you, saying: “There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • another way Yahweh may be different...

    ...is that He sends profits to tell His people to repent. Most, if not all other religions, try to use their gods to justify their actions

    Created about 1 month ago

    Hosea 4:2 (NLT)

  • Sermon on the Mount

    Matthew 5:1 (ESV)
    Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • where is Joseph?

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    Created about 1 month ago

    John 19:27 (NLT)

  • The World....

    ....doesn't like to be reminded of their sin. That's why they seem so angry at Christians for no reason. The presence of God in our lives is a constant reminder of their sinfulness.

    Created about 1 month ago

    John 15:22 (ESV), John 15:24 (ESV)

  • Mary didn't stay a virgin.

    So don't keep calling her that.

    Created about 1 month ago

    Matthew 1:25 (ESV)

  • Lineage of Joseph

    The lineage of Joseph is important because Jesus was raised in his house. People were known by their father's household. Mary was also in the household of David. It also doesn't say Joseph is the father,…

    Created about 1 month ago

    Matthew 1:16 (ESV)

  • Genealogies

    Genealogies may not be a complete listing, but I gets the point across like in Matthew 1:1

    Created about 1 month ago

    Matthew 1:1 (ESV)

  • Vegetarian

    1 Timothy 4:3 (NLT)
    They will say it is wrong to be married and wrong to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten with thanks by faithful people who know the truth.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:4

    Ezekiel 34:2 (ESV)
    "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

    Ezekiel 34:4 (ESV)
    The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

    Created 2 months ago

  • title

    Noting that El Elyon is a title of Yahweh.

    Created 3 months ago

    Daniel 3:26 (ESV)

  • Oh snap!

    To tell the king that he has no claim in the matter is BOLD. All followers of Christ should be this bold!

    Created 3 months ago

    Daniel 3:16 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2012-03-12

  • How can you do this???

    Philippians 1:15 (NLT)
    It’s true that some are preaching out of jealousy and rivalry. But others preach about Christ with pure motives.

    Created 3 months ago

  • 2 Samuel 4:1

    2 Samuel 4:1 (NLT)
    When Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, heard about Abner’s death at Hebron, he lost all courage, and all Israel became paralyzed with fear.

    Created 3 months ago

  • An Outline of a Christian

    John 15:1-11 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser." "Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more…

    Created 3 months ago

    John 15:1 (ESV), John 15:2 (ESV), John 15:3 (ESV), John 15:4 (ESV), John 15:5 (ESV), John 15:6 (ESV), John 15:7 (ESV), John 15:8 (ESV), John 15:9 (ESV), John 15:10 (ESV), John 15:11 (ESV)

  • Connection

    His invisible attributes are known.

    Created 3 months ago

    Isaiah 52:15 (ESV), Romans 1:20 (ESV)

  • Jesus

    Relatable to Jesus. "What has he done?"

    Created 4 months ago

    1 Samuel 20:32 (ESV)

  • Only God is Good

    http://apologeticsuk.blogspot.com/2012/02/did-jesus-deny-his-deity-in-his.html?m=1 This is a good resource for this question.

    Created 4 months ago

    Mark 10:18 (ESV)

  • Jesus

    Jesus is here. This reminds me of how the Chinese knew that The Son of God had died when it had occurred.

    Created 4 months ago

    Isaiah 52:14 (ESV), Isaiah 52:15 (ESV)

  • JESUS!

    Is here and so is His promised nations- Jews and Gentiles!

    Created 4 months ago

    Psalm 2:8 (ESV)

  • Read

    Isaiah 14:1 (ESV)
    For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

    Created 4 months ago

  • The things of this earth will not come to mind

    Psalm 9:5-6 (ESV)
    You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Read later

    1 Kings 19:12 (ESV)
    And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.

    Created 4 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 17:1

    1 Samuel 17:1 (ESV)
    Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

    Created 4 months ago

  • 1 Samuel 16:1

    1 Samuel 16:1 (ESV)
    The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."

    Created 4 months ago

  • harmful spirit, not evil

    ESV is more accurate.

    Created 4 months ago

    1 Samuel 16:14 (ESV)

  • harmful spirit, not evil

    ESV is more accurate.

    Created 4 months ago

    1 Samuel 16:23 (ESV)

  • Muhammad

    This speaks of him.

    Created 4 months ago

    2 Corinthians 11:14 (ESV)

  • Jesus is God

    He accepts worship, not even angels do that.

    Created 4 months ago

    Luke 7:16 (ESV), John 9:38 (ESV)

  • God does heal amputees

    Read the verse.

    Created 4 months ago

    Luke 22:51 (ESV)

  • Biblical allusion to a poem

    Acts 17:28 (ESV)
    for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'

    Created 4 months ago

  • Free will desiring God?

    Acts 16:30-31 (ESV)
    Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

    Created 4 months ago

  • Jesus Reference

    Genesis 12:3 (ESV)
    I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

    Created 4 months ago

  • Mercy on all

    Romans 11:32 (ESV)
    For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Holy Spirit Marker

    Psalm 51:11 (ESV)
    Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

    Created 4 months ago

  • A possible allusion to the end of the earth in Revelation

    Genesis 8:22 (ESV)
    While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."

    Created 4 months ago

  • Birds and winged creatures? Bats? Pterosaurs :)?

    Genesis 7:14 (ESV)
    they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.

    Created 4 months ago

  • The Moral Law

    Romans 2:14-16 (ESV)
    For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

    Created 5 months ago

  • People began to call upon the name of the Lord

    Genesis 4:26 (ESV)
    To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Was man's mind working perfectly?

    Genesis 3:5 (ESV)
    For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

    Created 5 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-08-17

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Bookmarks

    2011-07-16

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-07-07

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-06-18

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-04-19

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-03-14

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-02-19