Jonathan Chestang

  • jfchestang
  • Chicago
  • Teacher/Administrator
  • Earned a Badge — Created 500 Highlights

    2012-05-22

  • Blessings look like this

    Proverbs 10:22 (NLT)
    The blessing of the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

    Created 11 days ago

    Labels: blessed blessing blessings

  • Husband the Authority

    Ephesians 5:23 (NLT)
    For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: home leadership marriage

  • Tattoos

    Leviticus 19:28 (NLT)
    “Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the LORD.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: tattoos

  • Hatred

    Leviticus 19:17 (NLT)
    “Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives. Confront people directly so you will not be held guilty for their sin.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: getting along hatred relationships

  • Depletion of Financial Resources

    Leviticus 19:10 (NLT)
    It is the same with your grape crop—do not strip every last bunch of grapes from the vines, and do not pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners living among you. I am the LORD your God.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: bank account finance money

  • Homosexuality

    Leviticus 18:22 (NLT)
    “Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: gay homosexuality

  • Cheating

    Leviticus 18:18 (NLT)
    “While your wife is living, do not marry her sister and have sexual relations with her, for they would be rivals.

    Created 13 days ago

    Labels: adultery cheating

  • Unfailing love

    Proverbs 19:22 (NIV)
    What a person desires is unfailing love; better to be poor than a liar.

    Created 15 days ago

    Labels: commitment love marriage

  • Listening

    Proverbs 19:20 (NIV)
    Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

    Created 15 days ago

    Labels: advice listening

  • Anger

    Proverbs 19:19 (NIV)
    A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty; rescue them, and you will have to do it again.

    Created 15 days ago

    Labels: anger temper

  • Child Discipline

    Proverbs 19:18 (NIV)
    Discipline your children, for in that there is hope; do not be a willing party to their death.

    Created 15 days ago

  • About Homosexuality

    Romans 1:26-28 (NLT)
    That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.

    Created 19 days ago

    Labels: homosexuality

  • About Homosexuality

    Romans 1:24-28 (KJV)
    Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

    Created 19 days ago

    Labels: homosexuality

  • The story of David and Bathsheba

    2 Samuel 11:1 (KJV)
    And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

    Created 20 days ago

    Labels: bathsheba david

  • Cruelty

    Here, David has Uriah carry a letter that will cause his own death. Sometimes deceitfulness knows no bounds. This brings to life the saying "adding insult to injury" Such deeds will not go unpunished.

    Created 20 days ago

    2 Samuel 11:14 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:15 (KJV)

  • Deceitful

    At this point, David was no longer the spiritual being that once loved the Lord so. He was a wolf in spiritual clothing, protected by his position, and determined. His alternative was to make known to…

    Created 20 days ago

    2 Samuel 11:6 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:7 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:8 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:9 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:10 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:11 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:12 (KJV), 2 Samuel 11:13 (KJV)

  • Love not the World

    1 John 2:15-17 (KJV)
    Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    Created 26 days ago

  • Daniel 2:22-23

    Daniel 2:22-23 (KJV)
    He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • How Do I Know God is Real

    Romans 1:19-20 (KJV)
    Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

    Created about 1 month ago

    Labels: god real

  • Where by we must be saved

    Acts 4:12 (KJV)
    Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • How are we all in sin

    Romans 5:12 (KJV)
    Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

    Romans 5:14 (KJV)
    Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Any other god?

    Isaiah 44:8 (KJV)
    Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Started Following finess00

    about 1 month

  • Make it happen

    Psalm 37:3-6 (KJV)
    Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Vision

    Habakkuk 2:2-4 (KJV)
    And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Planted

    Mark 4:1 (KJV)
    And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

    Created 3 months ago

  • What to do in difficult times

    Sound wisdom for difficult times

    Created 3 months ago

    Habakkuk 3:17 (KJV), Habakkuk 3:18 (KJV), Habakkuk 3:19 (KJV)

  • Sin, contrast, and response

    Contrast of sin:Isaiah immediately saw the sin that contrasted him and God. He realized that even by the people who he lived with, he offended God.  Response to sin: Here God responded to the imperfection…

    Created 5 months ago

    Isaiah 6:1 (KJV), Isaiah 6:5 (KJV), Isaiah 6:6 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2012-01-01

  • 1 John 2:16-17

    1 John 2:16-17 (KJV)
    For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

    Created 6 months ago

  • Proverbs 24:3-4

    Proverbs 24:3-4 (KJV)
    Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

    Created 6 months ago

  • The Greatest Thing

    The greatest thing a person can ever give you is an opportunity.

    Created 9 months ago

  • Tithes

    When you pay your tithes, you're not giving money, you're giving your heart.

    Created 10 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-08-01

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights

    2011-07-28

  • People we know, and don't know

    We always believe the best about people we don't know, and the worst about people we do.

    Created 10 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-06-22

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2011-04-12

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-01-24

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-01-09

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-01-09