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  • Luke 24:46-47

    Luke 24:46-47 (ESV)
    and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Luke 8:15

    Luke 8:15 (NIV)
    But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop.

    Created 2 months ago

  • Luke 8:10, Luke 8:14

    Luke 8:10 (NIV)
    He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that, "'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.'

    Luke 8:14 (NIV)
    The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.

    Created 2 months ago

  • 2 Timothy 3:16

    2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
    All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

    Created 3 months ago

  • 2 Timothy 3:16

    2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)
    All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

    Created 3 months ago

  • 2 Timothy 3:17

    2 Timothy 3:17 (ESV)
    that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Hebrews 4:12

    Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)
    For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Micah 6:8

    Micah 6:8 (NIV)
    He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Psalm 119:97

    Psalm 119:97 (NIV)
    Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Joshua 1:8

    Joshua 1:8 (NIV)
    Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

    Created 3 months ago

  • 2 Timothy 3:16-17

    2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
    All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

    Created 3 months ago

  • Psalm 100:5

    Psalm 100:5 (ESV)
    For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Revelation 21:6

    Revelation 21:6 (ESV)
    And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 50:19

    Genesis 50:19 (ESV)
    But Joseph said to them, "Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 50:20

    Genesis 50:20 (ESV)
    As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Genesis 50:21

    Genesis 50:21 (ESV)
    So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones." Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

    Created 4 months ago

  • Moral straightjacket?

    Did Israel trade one form of slavery for another?  Aren't we all slaves to something?  In our freedom, we make choices.  Our choices result in slavery to something.  Career, money, alcohol, etc.  

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 20:1 (ESV)

  • Evangelism

    God is setting Israel aside as an example to the world.  Torah is the mechanism of differentiating Israel from the nations.  Also creation of solid morality.

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 19:4 (ESV), Exodus 19:6 (ESV)

  • Plagues

    Each plague was a demonstration of power over an Egyptian god by God.

    Created 4 months ago

    Exodus 19:4 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 100 Bookmarks

    2012-01-15

  • Micah 6:1

    Micah 6:1 (ESV)
    Hear what the Lord says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:2

    Micah 6:2 (ESV)
    Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:3

    Micah 6:3 (ESV)
    "O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:4

    Micah 6:4 (ESV)
    For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:5

    Micah 6:5 (ESV)
    O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord."

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:6

    Micah 6:6 (ESV)
    "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:7

    Micah 6:7 (ESV)
    Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?"

    Created 5 months ago

  • Micah 6:8

    Micah 6:8 (ESV)
    He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

    Created 5 months ago

  • Aren't all religions the same anyway?

    Skeptics believe that any claim of exclusivity have to be false.  But that belief is a exclusive claim to knowledge that contradicts itself.

    Created 5 months ago

    John 14:6 (ESV)

  • John 14:13

    John 14:13 (ESV)
    Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

    Created 5 months ago

  • Mark vs. Luke

    Mark used the word to Dig through.  Luke talkes about removing tiles.  Who is right?  Probably Mark.  He was from the area and understood how houses were made.  Big deal, no.

    Created 5 months ago

    Mark 2:4 (ESV)

  • Sustaining power

    Remember who you are.  Called by the Holy Spirit.  Loved by God the Father.  Protected in and for Jesus Christ.

    Created 6 months ago

    Jude 1:3 (ESV)

  • Sin

    Sin is a tendency and action that dehumanizes and destroys ourselves and those around us.

    Created 7 months ago

    1 John 1:8 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2011-10-20

  • Gospel

    This directly parallels the Gospel. Reconciliation.  The pain associated with giving forgiveness.  Losing the power of being right and seeking justice.

    Created 8 months ago

    Philemon 1:1 (ESV), Philemon 1:18 (ESV)

  • Possession

    Word use here is the best of the spoils of war that are reserved for the king.  He is speaking of us in this manner.  Wow!

    Created 8 months ago

    Titus 2:14 (ESV)

  • The cross

    A symbol of shame in the Roman Empire.  Turned into a symbol of victory by Jesus.

    Created 9 months ago

    2 Timothy 1:8 (ESV)

  • Paul's defense

    Paul was left alone to defend his actions in Rome.  Cross reference Jesus.  "May your sins not be charged against them"

    Created 9 months ago

    2 Timothy 4:11 (ESV), 2 Timothy 4:16 (ESV)

  • Cross reference Acts

    Barbabas and Paul split over Mark in Acts.  There appears to have be am reconciliation.

    Created 9 months ago

    2 Timothy 4:11 (ESV)

  • Shame due to Paul's imprisionment

    Because Paul is imprisioned, in the Greco Roman world, friends would feel shame for their association wit him.

    Created 9 months ago

    2 Timothy 1:8 (ESV)

  • Song of David

    Psalm 51:10

    Created 9 months ago

    1 Timothy 1:5 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2011-07-17

  • the end?

    Mark leaves the rest of the story to be filled in by us. Mark allows us to ask "what does this mean?". Does the Kingdom of Heaven live in us?

    Created 12 months ago

    Mark 16:8 (NIV)

  • gathered to scatter

    some churches gather together to stay together. some churches gather to scatter into the community. Scattering can be seen as a higher calling than those who are called to serve in the church. The Bible…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Acts 16:16 (ESV), Acts 16:27 (ESV), Acts 16:30 (ESV), Acts 16:40 (ESV)

  • Shift in David's heart

    David's son wanted him dead. How easy is it to hold on to unforgiveness and have it paint how we perceive life? How many times have we been hurt and held the resentment deeply? How hard is it to forgive?…

    Created about 1 year ago

    2 Samuel 18:33 (ESV)

  • grace personified

    Jesus works with Thomas' disbelief. He meets Thomas where he is. He does not judge Thomas for expressing his doubts. My Lord and my God. Thomas gets it. God wants to do this for us. He wants to meet us…

    Created about 1 year ago

    John 20:27 (ESV), John 20:29 (ESV)

  • belong, believe, behave

    Church (religion) doctrine typically dictates beliefs and behaviors in order for one to belong. Jesus sought out first those who did not belong (Luke 15:1) to model behaviours so they would believe. This…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Acts 2:31 (NIV), Acts 2:45 (NIV), Acts 2:47 (NIV)

  • koinonia

    community, communion, intimately attached to Jesus. Fellowship with the Christian community through God. The attachment of God's Spirit to us. Devotion to the apostles doctrine = Jesus. The opposite of…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Acts 2:42 (NIV), Acts 2:44 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-03-13

  • Paul - a Pharisee

    Paul considered himself a Pharisee. Two directon on the Law at the time of Jesus: beit hammi (letter of the law, strict) and beit Hillel (spirit of the law). Shammai was in power at the time of Jesus'…

    Created about 1 year ago

    Romans 1:1 (NIV)

  • Called

    followed = "be a disciple". Greek = mathetes; a learner, pupil, disciple, follower. Disciples interviewed for the position with a Rabbi. Jesus called his disciples

    Created about 1 year ago

    Matthew 9:9 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-03-02

  • Cross reference

    Hosea 6:6 NIV "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings."

    Created over 1 year ago

    Matthew 9:11 (NIV), Matthew 9:13 (NIV)

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-02-28

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-02-27