Ryan McReynolds

  • Meaningful Suffering

    This passage indicates that every detail of our suffering is seen and known by God. Not a tear escapes his notice. The language indicates that each tear is meaningful to him and has purpose.The immediate…

    Created 17 days ago

    Psalm 56:8 (ESV)

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    2012-04-04

  • The importance of the Bible

    Deuteronomy 17:18-20 (ESV)
    "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Rabbit's Foot Insurance

    It seems to me that the motivation for adopting the worship habits of the gods of a new nation probably came from a lack of confidence in Yahweh. Anytime something went wrong the temptation arose to say,…

    Created 2 months ago

    Deuteronomy 12:30 (ESV)

  • The "Place" of Worship

    cf. v. 3 Here the "place" that God will "make his habitation" is specified. This seems consonant with the physical nature of humanity. We inhabit physical space and what is valued in one place may be…

    Created 2 months ago

    Deuteronomy 12:5 (ESV)

  • The Form of True Worship

    Here it seems that Yahweh is forbidding the mixture of worship forms because the idols and altars of other gods carry with them the values and significance of those gods. This may seem narrow minded…

    Created 2 months ago

    Deuteronomy 12:4 (ESV)

  • The opposite of Worship

    By destroying and removing the altars and other idols of other gods, the Israelites were trying to lower the value of these gods through obscurity. As Sheppard Fairey has taught us: when people see something…

    Created 2 months ago

    Deuteronomy 12:3 (ESV)

  • perspective

    Could it be that the success of the previous day woke Jesus early. Perhaps he was wrestling with staying for the adulation of the crowd. However, he began the morning in prayer and decided to move on.

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 1:35 (ESV)

  • retirement

    I have heard many pastors say that the bible never mentions retirement. Well, here is one example.

    Created 3 months ago

    Numbers 8:25 (ESV)

  • God's Roadies

    These guys put it up, tear it down, pack it up, move it out. Then get up and do it again. Amen.

    Created 3 months ago

    Numbers 4:24 (ESV), Numbers 4:25 (ESV), Numbers 4:26 (ESV)

  • Guarding the garden

    The tabernacle is a symbolic recreation of the garden of Eden. The Levites are told, like Adam, to guard ("keep") and tend this "garden".

    Created 3 months ago

    Numbers 3:7 (ESV)

  • no blank check

    Never promise to do something until you know what it is. Jesus shows good boundaries.

    Created 3 months ago

    Mark 10:35 (ESV), Mark 10:36 (ESV)

  • Burnout

    This passage is an interesting parallel to the idea of personal burn out. Those who refuse to rest over a long period of time eventually give out and burn out.

    Created 3 months ago

    Leviticus 26:35 (ESV)

  • Be Ye Perfect

    This prohibition against blemishes seems to indicate that a disfiguring of human form is not tolerated in God's presence. This does not stipulate a particular kind of human form (e.g. tall, short, thin,…

    Created 3 months ago

    Leviticus 21:23 (ESV)

  • Beauty and Glory

    God cares about aesthetics and significance. Beauty refers to the things that please our senses; things which God understands very well since he made our senses. Humans are discovering such things by…

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 28:2 (ESV)

  • Hearts stirred to use skill

    This is what work is at it's Zenith: motivation by significance to worship God through the skill of excellence.

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 35:26 (ESV)

  • The inward testimony

    This seems to be an indication of the way God speaks to the heart directly.

    Created 4 months ago

    Psalm 16:7 (ESV)

  • The uniform of God's team

    It seems to me that God wants us to know that we are on his team. So he gives us rituals and signs and symbols to remind us of our status in his family and Kingdom. (i.e. circumcision, communion, baptism,…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 17:10 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2012-01-01

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    5 months

  • Please Judge

    The more unjust the world, the more there is a cry for a judge who will come and judge the world with fairness: blessing for goodness and wrath for wickedness. Occupy Wall Street, protests against Penn…

    Created 6 months ago

    Colossians 3:6 (ESV)

  • Give and take

    God instructs his friends to be like him: fruitful, productive and generous. Eating is consumption and working is fruitfulness. God instructs us to be more than consumers.

    Created 6 months ago

    2 Thessalonians 3:10 (ESV)

  • Jesus is the first who will be last

    In this analogy Jesus explains how the least deserving get the most grace and the most deserving get the least. This seems unjust to some and it is in so much as grace and mercy by definition go beyond…

    Created 6 months ago

    Matthew 20:16 (ESV)

  • Ethical Standards

    Paul seems to say that the actions of the church must meet universal standards of ethics.

    Created 6 months ago

    2 Corinthians 8:21 (ESV)

  • Ritual meaning

    As with baptism, communion and many other rituals in the Bible, God instructs Job to do a ritual in public. This ritual is to signify Job's righteousness and the sin of his friends. Also, the mercy of…

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 42:8 (ESV)

  • Manger Inn

    This verse's use of the word manger seems to support the idea that a Manger is a protective enclosure, not simply a food trough.

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 39:9 (ESV)

  • Questions, not answers.

    It is an interesting juxtaposition the Elihu gives Job "answers" from nature and God gives Job questions from nature.

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 38:3 (ESV)

  • No Grace in Nature

    It is fitting that Elihu praises the elements and the animals in his exposition of God's greatness. It is consistent with his view of justification. Elihu is a legalist: people always get what they deserve.…

    Created 7 months ago

    Job 37:14 (ESV), Job 37:15 (ESV), Job 37:16 (ESV)

  • I need to share this gospel

    The Gospel is such grace that it gives me no cause for taking credit, but credit in full is given to me, so that I, of necessity must share the credit as not my own, but solely the work of Jesus life,…

    Created 7 months ago

    1 Corinthians 9:16 (ESV)

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    2011-11-08

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  • Rights?

    Proverbs 29:7 (ESV)
    A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

    Created 10 months ago

  • Rigjts

    Proverbs 29:7 (ESV)
    A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

    Created 10 months ago

  • ideal husband

    Proverbs 19:14 (ESV)
    House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

    Proverbs 19:22 (ESV)
    What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

    Created 11 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan

    2011-06-28

  • Luke 10:17

    Luke 10:17 (ESV)
    The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • John 19:5

    John 19:5 (ESV)
    So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • John 10:9

    John 10:9 (ESV)
    I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Mark 5:19

    Mark 5:19 (ESV)
    And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 25:35

    Matthew 25:35 (ESV)
    For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

    Created about 1 year ago

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    2011-04-07

  • John 10:7

    John 10:7 (ESV)
    So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-04-03

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-03-06

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-01-15