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naked boy
from reading other peoples notes, I gather that this could have been Mark, could be literary paralellism to reverse the nakedness of the garden of Eden to help Jewish ppl connect to Christ, and/or symbolism…
Created 17 days ago
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struggles
No matter what I'm going through, and how hard it feels, I have not been threatened with death. I have not endured public ridicule or shame. I bear only my own guilt, only the burden of my own sin. And…
Created 21 days ago
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threat?
Did Jesus have to threaten this man with worse things to get him to really accept his healing? to keep his healing? It's hard for me to imagine being invalid for that long and still believing it was the…
Created 3 months ago
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hurts to read
sometimes it is so hard to pick up a Bible and read because I know I will be broken down by its words. I know that God will show me at least one way I am not following Him, one way I have disobeyed Him,…
Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2012-02-24
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God comforts depression
Someone sent me a devotion on this section that I didn't read for months after she sent it. But it was in the midst of a realization that I am suffering some sort of depression myself that I read it and…
Created 4 months ago
1 Kings 19:1 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:2 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:3 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:4 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:5 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:6 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:7 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:8 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:11 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:12 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:13 (ESV), 1 Kings 19:15 (ESV)
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painful faith
let me not run from the power of Jesus' work in my life. ever. let me not focus on the loss of things that needed to leave my life so I can follow God more closely, more genuinely. let me believe in miracles…
Created 4 months ago
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dress code??
I really don't understand the Kong's reaction here. He basically invited anyone who was "on the street" to his wedding feast... How could he expect the poor to have dress clothes, or whatever was expected…
Created 4 months ago
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risks of this world
It is always such a basic-sounding command, to be careful. we shrug that comment off from our mothers and fathers every time we leave the house as children. we laugh at it as teenagers because there's…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-16
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leaves, but no fruit
Someone else posted that Jesus cursed this tree because it lied to him. Based on the physical appearance of the tree (big green leaves), the tree should have been mature and it should have had fruit.…
Created 5 months ago
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we must step out in faith
I think Jesus basically ignores the question of the Pharisees because they don't even know where their faith lies. They aim to trip him up, but they have nothing to stand on anyway. They are neither prepared…
Created 5 months ago
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vultures?
another's note mentions that vultures only come when something is dead. vultures do not hunt. they don't even attack the sick or injured like wolves or coyotes. no, they feed on the dead. what is dead…
Created 7 months ago
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looking fwd
after reading a few other ppl's notes on this parable, I think I get the point a little more now... The manager was basically continuing his cheating ways at his last day on the job to make other ppl…
Created 7 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 Highlights
2011-11-08
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-10-26
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finish it!
I just read someone's sermon on this chapter and the overwhelming msg is that you cannot quit on your faith or on Jesus. if you accept salvation, you have chosen a new life, not just a new religion or…
Created 9 months ago
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found it!
when you find what you're looking for, whatever it is, you hold on to it! Ppl talk about that with love and money and friendship and all kinds of world things. Why would we not be so bold when we find…
Created 9 months ago
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what do the Romans have to do with it?
I don't understand why the Pharisees think Jesus will cause the Romans to take away Jewish synagogues or temples. I read another person's note that mentioned the fact that the Jews and the religious…
Created 9 months ago
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taken away?
sometimes this verse makes me wonder about losing salvation, but I don't think that's it. I think it really is about what will happen if we stop allowing Him to continually change our hearts, renew our…
Created 9 months ago
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amazing faith
Why call out this woman to retell her story in public? She had been "unclean" for so long and had (probably illegally) come out into the crowds to find and touch Jesus. Would the ppl have recognized her…
Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-09-04
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dead?
leave those who are spiritually dead (separated from God) to bury the physically dead. You who are alive in your faith should live and follow Christ with your life
Created 9 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-08-08
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jer 29
Jeremiah 29:1 (NIV)
This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.Created 10 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2011-07-19
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NT
Matthew 2:13 (NIV)
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."Created 11 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2011-07-07
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Psalms
Psalm 1:1 (NIV)
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,Created 11 months ago
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NT reading
Matthew 1:18 (NIV)
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.Created 11 months ago
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OT reading
1 Samuel 1:1 (NIV)
There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.Created 11 months ago
