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Nothing
We too often believe too much in ourselves. We think that we can be better by own own force of will. Jesus on the other hand reminds us that we are helpless, hopeless, and broken. Apart from him we can…
Created 2 days ago
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Psalm 119:5
Psalm 119:5 (NLT)
Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees!Created 11 days ago
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Salvation
This man is focused on what he can do to save himself rather than what Jesus can do to save him. Jesus lays out his perfect standard which the man claims to fulfill. Then Jesus adds another layer. Beyond…
Created about 1 month ago
Luke 18:18 (NLT), Luke 18:19 (NLT), Luke 18:20 (NLT), Luke 18:21 (NLT), Luke 18:22 (NLT), Luke 18:23 (NLT), Luke 18:24 (NLT), Luke 18:25 (NLT), Luke 18:26 (NLT), Luke 18:27 (NLT)
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Fruit
How long has God been patiently waiting for you to produce fruit? Life change happens when Jesus saves us. If you are God's child, why keep living like a lost person? He has given you all the power you…
Created about 1 month ago
Luke 13:6 (NLT), Luke 13:7 (NLT), Luke 13:8 (NLT), Luke 13:9 (NLT)
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Who Are You?
You call yourself Christian? Does your life call you Christian? If we don't strive to live by Jesus' teaching, he is not truly our Lord. Jesus would rather have one good deed from you than a thousand…
Created 2 months ago
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Like but Not Equal
Anyone who is growing in Christ should begin to look more like Christ. True believers should resemble the master more and more all the time. Still, we should never be prideful. It's easy to allow human…
Created 2 months ago
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The Mount
The connections between God's redemption of Isaac and His redemption of us are numerous. Just as God stepped in and provided a lamb to be sacrificed in Isaac's place, He provided THE Lamb to be sacrificed…
Created 3 months ago
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Mark 7:19
Mark 7:19 (NLT)
Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)Created 3 months ago
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Mark 7:19
Mark 7:19 (NLT)
Food doesn’t go into your heart, but only passes through the stomach and then goes into the sewer.” (By saying this, he declared that every kind of food is acceptable in God’s eyes.)Created 3 months ago
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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-19
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2 Corinthians 10:3-5
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (ESV)
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.Created 5 months ago
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Asking Jesus to Leave
What if Jesus saves someone and inconveniences us in the process? Would we ask him to leave? What if he changes our church's direction and it makes us uncomfortable? Would we leave the church? Jesus'…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2012-01-12
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Hebrews 6:10
Hebrews 6:10 (ESV)
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.Created 5 months ago
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Selfless
Our churches would be much stronger if disciples would stop blaming others for problems and claim blame for themselves. Paul selflessly chose to own the wrongs of his brother. What if we absorbed wrongdoing…
Created 7 months ago
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Foreign
When Christ saves us He sets us apart. So often we abandon God by going back to the world. We stop looking like Jesus and begin to look like our sinful selves again. We become like a foreign place. We…
Created 8 months ago
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Story
It's not only about telling the story of the Gospel, it's about living out the story of the Gospel. For the sake of the lost, we must live lives worthy of Christ. We must have a good reputation with the…
Created 8 months ago
1 Thessalonians 4:9 (HCSB), 1 Thessalonians 4:10 (HCSB), 1 Thessalonians 4:11 (HCSB), 1 Thessalonians 4:12 (HCSB)
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Ephesians 4:22-23
Ephesians 4:22-23 (HCSB)
You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires;Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 64:5
Isaiah 64:5 (HCSB)
You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember You in Your ways. But we have sinned, and You were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 47:10
Isaiah 47:10 (ESV)
You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 45:22
Isaiah 45:22 (ESV)
"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 44:22
Isaiah 44:22 (ESV)
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 44:6-8
Isaiah 44:6-8 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 44:6
Isaiah 44:6 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 43:25
Isaiah 43:25 (ESV)
"I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 42:22
Isaiah 42:22 (ESV)
But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 42:6-7
Isaiah 42:6-7 (ESV)
"I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,Created 8 months ago
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Isaiah 31:1
Isaiah 31:1 (HCSB)
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the abundance of chariots and in the large number of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel and they do not seek the Lord's help.Created 9 months ago
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Proverbs 23:20
Proverbs 23:20 (HCSB)
Don't associate with those who drink too much wine or with those who gorge themselves on meat.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 8:20
Isaiah 8:20 (HCSB)
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 7:9
Isaiah 7:9 (HCSB)
the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.Created 9 months ago
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2 Corinthians 11:14-15
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 (HCSB)
And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 5:30
Isaiah 5:30 (HCSB)
On that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. When one looks at the land, there will be darkness and distress; light will be obscured by clouds.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 5:20
Isaiah 5:20 (HCSB)
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 5:2
Isaiah 5:2 (HCSB)
He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 4:5
Isaiah 4:5 (HCSB)
Then the Lord will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,Created 9 months ago
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Delusion
No matter how strong a person, church, or nation is, if we allow sin to creep in, our sensibilities will suffer. A small crack, if not taken care of, will become a gaping hole. When we become desensitized,…
Created 9 months ago
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Isaiah 1:22
Isaiah 1:22 (HCSB)
Your silver has become dross, your beer is diluted with water.Created 9 months ago
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Inward Repentance
It is easy to put on a good show outwardly while in truth being far from God. God is looking for true repentance. He wants inward repentance. Rather than putting so much time into looking repentant, let's…
Created 10 months ago
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Heart's Desire
This passage and ones like it are often wrongly taught. Often, preachers teach that if you love God, He will do whatever you want. They say you will become rich, powerful, and whatever you desire. This…
Created 10 months ago
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One
There is only one bread. As the bread represents Jesus, we must remember that there is only one Son, who is the one Savior and the ONLY way to God (and thus heaven). Only by placing our faith in Jesus…
Created 10 months ago
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Check It
Every person should always check what is being taught by the word of God. No pastor or teacher is above the word. Even Paul expected believers to check his teaching. We must always be sure we are teaching…
Created 10 months ago
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Repentance is Lived
True repentance is not something you merely say, but something you do. John writes in 1 John 2 that if a person claims to know Jesus yet does not walk in Jesus' ways, that person is a liar who does not…
Created 11 months ago
Acts 26:20 (ESV), Ephesians 2:8 (ESV), Ephesians 2:9 (ESV), Ephesians 2:10 (ESV), James 2:14 (ESV), 1 John 2:4 (ESV)
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Presence
It was God's wisdom in Solomon that was so great, not Solomon himself. Many people spend too much time making much of themselves. We will never be great but the presence of God in us is. If we want to…
Created 12 months ago
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Good Old Days
I can't count all the times I have heard a person in the church say, "if only things could be like they were in the good old days" or, "things just aren't like they used to be" or something to that extent.…
Created about 1 year ago
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Kingdom
What kingdom are you living for? Our actions give the true answer to this question. Many people claim to follow Jesus but do not live in His truth. Those who are truly His listen to His voice. A person…
Created about 1 year ago
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Faith
You have to love the courage of Jonathan in this story. He just up and decides that he is going to take one man with him and God-willing take out an entire Phillistine garrison. Seems like he had some…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2011-05-10
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Misplaced
How often is our trust misplaced in a sacred object or tradition. It is so easy to rely on things to get us through while forgetting that God alone holds the power to see us through. Israel had seen many…
Created about 1 year ago
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In Jesus' Hands
This is referring to spiritual reality. Even though we may suffer and die, will will not be truly harmed because we are in Jesus' hands. They can take our bodies but they can't hurt our spirits. In all…
Created about 1 year ago
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True Followers
True followers of Jesus will cling to Him till the end. Many say the follow Him but drop off when it gets tough. When we endure in His name we prove our faith is real.
Created about 1 year ago
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Done
For those of us who have been saved, Jesus has already delt with our sin on the cross. He has already forgiven us all sin past present and future. Therefore in light of what Jesus has done for us we live…
Created about 1 year ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-02-09
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-01-30
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-01-04
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2010-12-26
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2010-12-26
Nick Tarter
- ntarter
- Perry, OK
- pfbcyouth.net
- Disciple of Jesus, husband, dad, youth pastor, and musician.