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Prayers of the Bible - A Prayer for Healing
King David wrote this psalm probably at a time in his life when things were going badly. He was hurting physically and he was greatly disturbed over the turmoil that was besetting him. He prayed fervently…
Created 1 day ago
Psalm 6:1 (NIV84), Psalm 6:2 (NIV84), Psalm 6:3 (NIV84), Psalm 6:4 (NIV84)
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Change I Can Believe In
Change. Although it is a part of life, it can either be a welcome relief or unwelcome intrusion. Regardless of my attitude toward change, it will continue to happen. So how do I decide which changes…
Created 2 days ago
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Prayers of the Bible - A Prayer of Confession
How difficult would it be for you to admit all your wrongdoings to your family, to your friends, or to other Christians? I doubt that it would be easy for any of us. And yet, how much more difficult is…
Created 3 days ago
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Prayers of the Bible - Praying with Purpose
If you are like me, there is a good chance that at times you have prayed for a fortune of money. Especially when I was younger, I had a long list of things that I would do with abundant wealth. Of course,…
Created 4 days ago
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More than Marketing
You’re starting up a new restaurant. How do you get business? You let your community know that they have a need (they get hungry); there is a solution (food) and you have the best solution in town (your…
Created 4 days ago
Acts 2:1 (NIV84), Acts 2:2 (NIV84), Acts 2:3 (NIV84), Acts 2:4 (NIV84)
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God’s Love
As a sinner, I like to think God takes me just the way I am. Then I can continue to live just the way I do. This way of thinking helps me put down my guilt and lift up my self-esteem. Unfortunately,…
Created 9 days ago
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A Joy Story - An Innocent Man Finds Purpose in Prison
The apostle Paul was innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet he was arrested and imprisoned, even faced possible execution all because he preached the gospel of Jesus Christ. Did he complain? Was he filled with…
Created 24 days ago
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Vines, Branches and Fruit
I need Jesus for everything in my life. This truth is made abundantly clear when he says, “I am the vine and you are the branches.” The point of the illustration is one I need to take seriously. Just…
Created 24 days ago
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Christ is My Capstone!
The skill of laying a stone foundation is a rare find these days. With all of our advancements in building materials and equipment, things like steel beams and poured concrete foundations with rebar…
Created about 1 month ago
Acts 4:8 (NIV84), Acts 4:9 (NIV84), Acts 4:10 (NIV84), Acts 4:11 (NIV84), Acts 4:12 (NIV84)
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Hope's Testimony
Remember cramming (studying) for an exam? Trying to somehow embed your resistant memory with all those details written in the textbook or recorded in your class notes? You knew that if you didn't have…
Created about 1 month ago
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True Peace
What bothers you? What troubles you? What scares you? What has you on edge? On the surface, your answer might be the economy, the election in November, Iran. More personally, your answer might be…
Created about 1 month ago
Luke 24:36 (NIV84), Luke 24:37 (NIV84), Luke 24:38 (NIV84), Luke 24:39 (NIV84), Luke 24:40 (NIV84), Luke 24:41 (NIV84), Luke 24:42 (NIV84), Luke 24:43 (NIV84), Luke 24:44 (NIV84), Luke 24:45 (NIV84), Luke 24:46 (NIV84), Luke 24:47 (NIV84), Luke 24:48 (NIV84), Luke 24:49 (NIV84)
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Look To Jesus
When the people who had gathered at the temple for prayer saw a beggar—a man they knew to be crippled from birth, a man they had seen begging daily at the temple gate—when they saw him walking and jumping…
Created about 1 month ago
Acts 3:12 (NIV84), Acts 3:13 (NIV84), Acts 3:14 (NIV84), Acts 3:15 (NIV84), Acts 3:16 (NIV84), Acts 3:17 (NIV84), Acts 3:18 (NIV84), Acts 3:19 (NIV84), Acts 3:20 (NIV84)
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Hope's Source
The old song was right in lyrically telling us, "You gotta have hope!" Who can live without hope? If there's no hope of a better tomorrow, why go there? If there's no hope beyond the end of our days,…
Created about 1 month ago
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"Peace be with you!"
How secure are you? Is your job safe, or is there a lay-off coming? How about your health? Or what if you had a serious car accident, or your home caught on fire, or what if ... ? Important questions,…
Created about 1 month ago
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God Hears and Helps
Ever have a bad day? Of course! On this side of heaven there will be lots of them. The words of God at the beginning of this devotion were written to Hebrew Christians who were having bad days. These…
Created 2 months ago
Hebrews 5:7 (NIV84), Hebrews 5:8 (NIV84), Hebrews 5:9 (NIV84)
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“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
While Jesus hung from the cross, the sky turned dark. From twelve noon to about three in the afternoon, it was completely dark. Then Jesus cried out loudly, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”…
Created 2 months ago
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God is Active in Your Life
When life seems rather boring or routine, we might think God is not active in our life. If our life seems to crash and burn, it may seem that God is not involved in our life. When we’re so busy rushing…
Created 2 months ago
Ephesians 2:4 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:5 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:6 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:7 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:8 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:9 (NIV84), Ephesians 2:10 (NIV84)
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today you will be with me in paradise.
There were three crosses on Calvary. Jesus was crucified in between two criminals. As Isaiah prophesied, “He was numbered with the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12). At first both of those condemned criminals…
Created 2 months ago
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Rules to Love By
LORD God, because you love me, you command me what to do and not do. Forgive me for the many times and different ways I have failed to do what you have commanded. Thank you for the forgiveness Jesus…
Created 3 months ago
Exodus 20:1 (NIV84), Exodus 20:2 (NIV84), Exodus 20:3 (NIV84), Exodus 20:4 (NIV84), Exodus 20:5 (NIV84), Exodus 20:6 (NIV84), Exodus 20:7 (NIV84), Exodus 20:8 (NIV84), Exodus 20:9 (NIV84), Exodus 20:10 (NIV84), Exodus 20:11 (NIV84), Exodus 20:12 (NIV84), Exodus 20:13 (NIV84), Exodus 20:14 (NIV84), Exodus 20:15 (NIV84), Exodus 20:16 (NIV84), Exodus 20:17 (NIV84)
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“Father, forgive them"
As the soldiers drove nails through his hands and feet to the cross, Jesus did not pray to his heavenly Father for help to bear the immense pain. Nor did he ask his Father to avenge his enemies for all…
Created 3 months ago
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HUMAN WISDOM VS THE GOSPEL
Author David Platt, in his book, Radical, tells the story of what happened when he was standing outside of a Buddhist temple in Indonesia. As he stood there, he got into a conversation with two people—a…
Created 3 months ago
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The Only Peace That Matters
A wealthy man wanted to have a painting that captured the ultimate picture of peace. Many artists entered their paintings. They all made noble attempts at putting down on canvass what peace really was.…
Created 3 months ago
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“I AM WHO I AM.”
“I AM WHO I AM.” This is God's very own revelation of his name and of himself. These words are simple and yet are filled with deep truth about God. “I AM,” God declares. He is an "I," a personal being,…
Created 3 months ago
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Get the Story Straight
Jesus went to great lengths to explain his ministry to his disciples. He also went to great lengths to prepare them for the time he would leave this world. Unfortunately, the disciples formed their…
Created 3 months ago
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“Father, where is the lamb?”
The words must have pierced Abraham’s soul. Isaac didn’t mean to wound his father, and under most circumstances his question wouldn’t have been wounding words. But these were not normal circumstances.…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Proverbs 6:16-19
Proverbs 6:16-19 (NIV)
There are six things the lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:Created 4 months ago
Labels: seven things the lord hates
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-23
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Proverbs 3:5
Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)
Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;Created 5 months ago
Labels: trust in the lord and do not lean on your own understanding
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Hebrews 8:13
Hebrews 8:13 (NIV)
By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.Created 5 months ago
Labels: the old covenant (old testament regulations) is obsolete
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Revelation 22:8-9
Revelation 22:8-9 (NIV)
I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me.Created 5 months ago
Labels: the angel rebukes john for worshiping him and not god
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Ephesians 3:12
Ephesians 3:12 (NIV)
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.Created 5 months ago
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Ephesians 2:18
Ephesians 2:18 (NIV)
For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.Created 5 months ago
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1 Timothy 2:5
1 Timothy 2:5 (NIV)
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,Created 5 months ago
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1 John 2:23
1 John 2:23 (NIV)
No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.Created 5 months ago
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John 5:23
John 5:23 (NIV)
that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.Created 5 months ago
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Romans 3:21-25
Romans 3:21-25 (NIV)
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.Created 5 months ago
Labels: salvation by faith alone
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Romans 3:20
Romans 3:20 (NIV)
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-12-28
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2 Corinthians 5:19
2 Corinthians 5:19 (NIV)
that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.Created 5 months ago
Labels: christ died for the whole world
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Acts 4:12
Acts 4:12 (NIV)
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved."Created 5 months ago
Labels: jesus is the only way
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John 14:5-7
John 14:5-7 (NIV)
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"Created 5 months ago
Labels: jesus is the only way
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-12-22
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2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 (NIV)
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters,Created 6 months ago
Labels: the antichrist
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John 20:31
John 20:31 (NIV)
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.Created 6 months ago
Labels: the purpose of the bible
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2 Peter 1:20-21
2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV)
Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things.Created 6 months ago
Labels: inspiration of the scriptures
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2 Timothy 3:17
2 Timothy 3:17 (NIV)
so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.Created 6 months ago
Labels: inspiration of the scriptures
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Proverbs 30:7
Proverbs 30:7 (NIV)
"Two things I ask of you, lord; do not refuse me before I die:Created 6 months ago
Labels: a good prayer
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Hebrews 1:1
Hebrews 1:1 (NIV)
In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,Created 6 months ago
Labels: the deity of christ
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-12-16
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Micah 5:2
Micah 5:2 (NIV)
"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times."Created 6 months ago
Labels: prophecy of the coming christ
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-12-15
