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  • Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge

    2012-02-24

  • Regretful Words

    And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" (Matthew 27:25 ESV) The Jews would regret these words (Matt. 23:37-24:2)

    Created 4 months ago

    Matthew 27:25 (ESV)

  • Hypocrisy and Blood Money

    It is fascinating that the chief priests were willing to pay out "blood money," (Matt. 26:15) but it was unlawful to take the blood money back.

    Created 4 months ago

    Matthew 27:6 (ESV)

  • the Cornerstone

    The stone where Jacob laid his head to rest became the Cornerstone of the House of God. Interesting symbolism.

    Created 4 months ago

    Genesis 28:22 (ESV)

  • Deeds and Repentence

    Acts 26:20 (ESV)
    but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.

    Created 4 months ago

    Labels: deeds good works repentence

  • The Cost of the Way

    Even in Paul's day there was a cost in saying that Jesus Christ is the only Way (notice how Luke emphasis "the Way" in verse 23). Despite the cost, we must be diligent in preaching Christ the "the Way,…

    Created 5 months ago

    Acts 19:29 (ESV)

  • The Cost of the Way

    Acts 19:29 (ESV)
    So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: cost persecution

  • Nehemiah 9:18-19

    Nehemiah 9:18-19 (ESV)
    Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,' and had committed great blasphemies,

    Created 5 months ago

  • My Wife is My Closest Neighbor

    Husbands: If we are to follow the commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself," is it not our wives who are our closest neighbors??

    Created 5 months ago

    Matthew 19:8 (ESV)

  • Prayers of a Righteous Man

    Truly, the prayers of a righteous man avails much. A bonus answer: (20:17)

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 20:7 (ESV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2012-01-19

  • I kept you from sinning

    God overcame Abimelech's desires to sin by overcoming the heart.

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 20:6 (ESV)

  • Overcoming the Heart

    Genesis 20:6 (ESV)
    Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: free will heart integrity sovereignty

  • Apologetics of Paul

    Acts 18:19 (ESV)
    And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: apologetics reasoning

  • Apologetics of Apollos

    Acts 18:28 (ESV)
    for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: apologetics reasoning

  • He determines periods and dwelling places

    Acts 17:26 (ESV)
    And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: appointed times boundaries sovereignty

  • God put it into my heart

    Nehemiah 7:5 (ESV)
    Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: heart passion sovereignty

  • Church Leadership Necessary

    Acts 14:23 (ESV)
    And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: church government elders

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2012-01-16

  • When God is Perceived

    Nehemiah 6:16 (ESV)
    And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: hand of god sovereignty

  • When God Opens Hearts

    Acts 16:14 (ESV)
    One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: belief hearing sovereignty

  • Revealed Truth

    Matthew 11:26-27 (ESV)
    yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: revelation sovereignty

  • Sovereignty in Sight

    Matthew 11:25 (ESV)
    At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: sight sovereignty wisdom

  • All things work together for good

    Ezra 7:6 (ESV)
    this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

    Ezra 7:9-10 (ESV)
    For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: hand of god sovereignty

  • God turns hearts

    Ezra 6:22 (ESV)
    And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: heart joy sovereignty

  • God put it in their hearts

    Ezra 7:27-28 (ESV)
    Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: heart sovereignty

  • Ezra 7:27-28

    Ezra 7:27-28 (ESV)
    Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem,

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: sovereignty

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2012-01-07

  • Acts 4:28

    Acts 4:28 (ESV)
    to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: predestination sovereignty

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2012-01-05

  • 1 Corinthians 10:31

    1 Corinthians 10:31 (ESV)
    So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

    Created 5 months ago

    Labels: glorifying god

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan

    2012-01-05

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2012-01-01

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2012-01-01