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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2012-01-24
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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
Ecclesiastes 7:8 (ESV)
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.Created 4 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-04
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turn again
In keeping with repentance we experience and are once again assured that our sins are blotted out. The result is times of refreshment from the presence of the Lord! This means true repentance can only…
Created over 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-02
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Play Skillfully on Strings with Loud Shouts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUNqRNGrSe4 I think every other time I've read this it had a sense of triteness to it (that would obviously have to be an indictment on my heart rather than the scripture).…
Created over 3 years ago
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Jacob: The Man
I'm not sure why Jacob didn't follow the same methodology as Issac's servant did when he went to find Rebekah. Jacob basically went to the same house where Issac's servant had prayed that God would show…
Created over 3 years ago
Genesis 29:15 (ASV), Genesis 29:16 (ASV), Genesis 29:17 (ASV), Genesis 29:18 (ASV), Genesis 29:19 (ASV), Genesis 29:20 (ASV), Genesis 29:21 (ASV), Genesis 29:22 (ASV), Genesis 29:23 (ASV), Genesis 29:24 (ASV), Genesis 29:25 (ASV), Genesis 29:26 (ASV), Genesis 29:27 (ASV), Genesis 29:28 (ASV), Genesis 29:29 (ASV), Genesis 29:30 (ASV)
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the leaven we swallow
I have to wonder if Jesus said this looking down the corridor of time and seeing how much these ideas would spread and do great damage to his gospel. Almost immediately after Jesus' resurrection and with…
Created over 3 years ago
Matthew 16:6 (ASV), Matthew 16:7 (ASV), Matthew 16:8 (ASV), Matthew 16:9 (ASV), Matthew 16:10 (ASV), Matthew 16:11 (ASV), Matthew 16:12 (ASV)
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Do we perceive the dullness of our hearts
This text is grieving to my heart as well as perplexing to my mind. I see this "dullness" worked out in the world around me as well as in my own heart that is so callous at times towards Jesus and careless…
Created over 3 years ago
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The Words of Jesus
I guess its fitting that no scripture seems to make me more uncomfortable than the words of Jesus Himself. Statements like "I send you into the world as sheep amidst wolves", "you will be dragged before…
Created over 3 years ago
Matthew 10:16 (ASV), Matthew 10:17 (ASV), Matthew 10:18 (ASV), Matthew 10:19 (ASV), Matthew 10:20 (ASV), Matthew 10:21 (ASV), Matthew 10:22 (ASV), Matthew 10:23 (ASV), Matthew 10:34 (ASV), Matthew 10:35 (ASV), Matthew 10:36 (ASV), Matthew 10:37 (ASV), Matthew 10:38 (ASV), Matthew 10:39 (ASV)
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The Glory of God in the Face of Christ
David outlines two portions both of which sound pleasing. He observes that God continues to "fill their womb with treasure; [that] they are satisfied with children, and [that] they leave their abundance…
Created over 3 years ago
Psalm 17:15 (ASV), 2 Corinthians 4:4 (ASV), 2 Corinthians 4:6 (ASV)
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I have no good apart from you.
I have nothing to add to that statement other than admission that I can't comprehend what condition of the heart is required to truthfully say this to Jesus. He is truly our portion, but we forsake Him…
Created over 3 years ago
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The Serpent's Mistake...
In reading these chapters back to back for the first time in awhile, a detail stood out that I've never noticed before. I wonder if there is something to be gleaned from observing the timing of the dragon's…
Created over 3 years ago
Jared Brient
- jbrient
- Los Angeles, CA
