Scott Neubauer

pastoral duty

Hebrews 13:17 (ESV)
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

utter darkness

Jude 1:4 (ESV)
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:13 (ESV)
wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

greater is He that's in you

1 John 4:4 (ESV)
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

angels

Hebrews 2:16 (ESV)
For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

God is good

Psalm 92:15 (ESV)
to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

angels

Hebrews 1:14 (ESV)
Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

1 John 1:5

1 John 1:5 (ESV)
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

2 Peter 1:4

2 Peter 1:4 (ESV)
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

peace

Philippians 4:6-7 (ESV)
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

good gifts

Matthew 7:9-10 (ESV)
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

giving it all up for Christ

Philippians 3:7-8 (ESV)
But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

good days

1 Peter 3:10-11 (ESV)
For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

obedience from heart

Ephesians 6:5-6 (ESV)
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

sin of omission

James 4:3-4 (ESV)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 4:17 (ESV)
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

only two ways

James 4:3-4 (ESV)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

tabor is to further the kingdom

James 4:3 (ESV)
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

teachers judged harsher

James 3:1 (ESV)
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

brought near to God

Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

Ephesians 2:13-22 (ESV)
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

two ways, the world or God

Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

God gives good things

James 1:14-18 (ESV)
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

sin leads to death

James 1:14-15 (ESV)
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

holy spirit

John 14:17 (ESV)
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

mythbusters

2 Timothy 4:4 (ESV)
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Giving produces thanksgiving

2 Corinthians 9:12 (ESV)
For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.

1 Timothy 3:15

1 Timothy 3:15 (ESV)
if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.