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coveting = idolatry
I finally see how: by putting someone's stuff or position ahead of you, by desiring it above what God wants for you, you now worship that thing. You give honor and glory, your love to it, instead of to…
Created 3 months ago
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Emma's evidence
So our junior and senior high students are discussing the empty tomb. Our soft-spoken Emma, a new sixth-grader waited until the end before saying, "If anyone was trying to steal the body they wouldn't…
Created 5 months ago
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no bread? try 7 baskets
In the prior chapter they had just collected seven (perfection, completion) baskets full from a few loaves and fish. But they didn't bring a one with them. How often does God give and we forget? Yet,…
Created 6 months ago
Matthew 16:5 (ESV), Matthew 16:6 (ESV), Matthew 16:7 (ESV), Matthew 16:8 (ESV)
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no new signs
He wouldn't give them a sign because they wouldn't have been able to interpret it: no understanding, no possible growth nor change, so no point in pointing and making it worse.
Created 6 months ago
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returns the same way
My favourite Psalm parallels this spoken by the two angels after Jesus' ascension. Psalm 18 Maybe Psalm 18 also refers to His Second Coming when He brings final justice and the Rapture of His People.
Created 8 months ago
Psalm 18:6 (ESV), Psalm 18:7 (ESV), Psalm 18:8 (ESV), Psalm 18:9 (ESV), Psalm 18:10 (ESV), Psalm 18:11 (ESV), Psalm 18:12 (ESV), Psalm 18:13 (ESV), Acts 1:9 (ESV), Acts 1:10 (ESV), Acts 1:11 (ESV)
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Let the Bible Speak
Read the verse aloud. What does it say to you? John 3:16 for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life? Romans…
Created 10 months ago
John 1:12 (ESV), John 3:16 (ESV), Romans 3:10 (ESV), Romans 3:23 (ESV), Romans 5:8 (ESV), Romans 6:23 (ESV), Romans 10:13 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 15:3 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 15:4 (ESV), Revelation 3:20 (ESV)
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Share Jesus Without Fear
Do you have any kind of spiritual beliefs?To you, who is Jesus?Do you believe there is a heaven or hell?If you died right now, where would you go? If heaven why?If what you believe wasn't true, would…
Created 10 months ago
John 3:3 (ESV), John 14:6 (ESV), Romans 3:23 (ESV), Romans 6:23 (ESV), Romans 10:9 (ESV), Romans 10:10 (ESV), Romans 10:11 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:15 (ESV), Revelation 3:20 (ESV)
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water 2 wine
"On the third day"! (He rose on the 3rd day.) This was a wedding. The six jars were for purification, but were empty. The wine is the good kind meaning it was not only fully alcohol, (not new wine…
Created 12 months ago
John 2:1 (ESV), John 2:2 (ESV), John 2:3 (ESV), John 2:4 (ESV), John 2:5 (ESV), John 2:6 (ESV), John 2:7 (ESV), John 2:8 (ESV), John 2:9 (ESV), John 2:10 (ESV), John 2:11 (ESV)
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no Popes
"You are all brothers." Jesus was their teacher. And in verse 9 they were told not to be called "father", what "pope" means.
Created almost 1 year ago
Matthew 23:8 (ESV), Matthew 23:9 (ESV), Matthew 23:10 (ESV), Matthew 23:11 (ESV), Matthew 23:12 (ESV)
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2 altars
Abram just built an altar at verse 7 because the LORD appeared to him there. Why build another in verse 8? In anticipation of another appearance or promise? Or to remind himself of what just happened…
Created about 1 year ago
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earrings, cows and slavery
Exodus 32:1-35 ESVSo they escape slavery in Egypt, but they still bear the signs of it with1. earrings, (boring a hole into someone's ear for a ring was a sign of ownership),2. their behavior and3. the…
Created over 1 year ago
Exodus 32:1 (ESV), Exodus 32:2 (ESV), Exodus 32:3 (ESV), Exodus 32:4 (ESV), Exodus 32:5 (ESV), Exodus 32:6 (ESV), Exodus 32:7 (ESV), Exodus 32:8 (ESV), Exodus 32:9 (ESV), Exodus 32:10 (ESV)
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wealth 4 the Lamb
What kind of wealth does the Lamb who was slain claim? Us, all of us: we are His wealth. The people for whom He was slain are His reward and *none shall be missing* ('worked throughout the whole dough'…
Created over 1 year ago
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Revealed 2 Moses on Horeb
God tells Moses so much of what is going to happen here in chapter 3. Yet, it is hard for Moses to take with trust. YHWH keeps using "when" and not "if" concerning all Israel coming out of Egypt against…
Created over 1 year ago
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leaven not always sin
Leaven usually is a symbol for sin and how it can spread in a person's life or through an entire group. But, here Jesus uses leaven to represent the power or the breadth of the kingdom of heaven. The…
Created over 1 year ago
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What's Missing in Heaven
Vs 1 no sea, the earth and heaven(s) have passed away. Vs 4 no more tears, no crying, no mourning, no pain. Vs 22 no temple, God is the temple: we worship God Almighty directly and the Lamb, Jesus.…
Created over 1 year ago
Revelation 21:1 (ESV), Revelation 21:4 (ESV), Revelation 21:22 (ESV), Revelation 21:23 (ESV), Revelation 21:25 (ESV), Revelation 21:27 (ESV)
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Tents, Temporary
As I was reading Nehemiah we were in the last day of Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths, which follows The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Because it actually was the holiday, and my Pastor had…
Created over 1 year ago
Nehemiah 8:1 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:2 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:3 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:8 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:12 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:13 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:14 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:15 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:16 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:17 (ESV), Nehemiah 8:18 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:1 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:2 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:3 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:4 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:5 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:6 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:7 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:8 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:9 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:10 (ESV), 2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV), 2 Peter 3:11 (ESV), 2 Peter 3:12 (ESV), 2 Peter 3:13 (ESV)
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Wait Then Woosh
Jesus tells the faithful to wait in Jerusalem for the baptism of the Holy Spirit before He departs. They could have started trying out who should be the next leader, but they didn't. Then, 50 days after…
Created over 1 year ago
Acts 1:4 (ESV), Acts 1:5 (ESV), Acts 2:1 (ESV), Acts 2:2 (ESV), Acts 2:3 (ESV), Acts 2:4 (ESV)
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Balaam sees Messiah
15 And he took up his discourse and said, The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,16 the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the…
Created over 1 year ago
Numbers 24:12 (ESV), Numbers 24:13 (ESV), Numbers 24:14 (ESV), Numbers 24:15 (ESV), Numbers 24:16 (ESV), Numbers 24:17 (ESV), Numbers 24:18 (ESV), Numbers 24:19 (ESV)
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Sprinkling
Here is another place where we get the idea for sprinkling with water for uncleaness in a baptism. This whole chapter is an example. We also see it when the high priest sprinkles the blood on the altar…
Created over 1 year ago
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High Priest must die to release murderer
A muderer flees to a city of refuge and must stay inside the city until the anointed high priest dies before he can return home safely. This murder must have been a mistake and so considered manslaughter.…
Created over 1 year ago
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On Dry Ground
Just as it was with the Red Sea, they crossed on dry ground. Yet, many have attacked the miracle, ignoring the evidence contained in the story. Here the Jordan "overflows it's banks, as before". At the…
Created over 1 year ago
Joshua 4:17 (ESV), Joshua 4:18 (ESV), Joshua 4:20 (ESV), Joshua 4:21 (ESV), Joshua 4:22 (ESV), Joshua 4:23 (ESV), Joshua 4:24 (ESV)
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A trials prayer
Father, Please forgive me for thinking that we are supposed to be here on earth playing and enjoying this world always in comfort and enjoying all life all of the time: a great, big playground. You have…
Created over 1 year ago
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Temple E N S W
"The bronze man" is measuring the Temple listing the gates in the opposite order from the listing of the Israelite camp in Numbers 1-3:38. IC: W S N E TG: E N S W God is unstitching and resewing for…
Created over 1 year ago
Numbers 2:3 (ESV), Numbers 2:10 (ESV), Numbers 2:17 (ESV), Numbers 2:18 (ESV), Numbers 2:25 (ESV), Numbers 3:38 (ESV), Ezekiel 42:1 (ESV), Revelation 21:13 (ESV)
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Words Shall Be Where?
http://www.kirtondrawnback.org/pdfs/TheseWordsShallBeWhere.pdf (http://www.kirtondrawnback.org/pdfs/TheseWordsShallBeWhere.pdf) A short devotional/meditation for use with youth (jr. high - college/career…
Created over 1 year ago
Deuteronomy 6:4 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:6 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:7 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:8 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:9 (ESV), Deuteronomy 6:12 (ESV)
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Foreshadows: Abram and Israel
Abram goes to Egypt because there is a severe famine in the land. Israel will do the same. Joseph goes before Israel/Jacob to prepare their salvation. Jacob's children go to Egypt expecting, like Abram,…
Created about 2 years ago
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