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Earned a Badge — 21-Day Challenge
2012-02-24
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
Paul tells us that the Old Testament things "took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did." (1 Cor. 10:6, 11) Over and over again, God was merciful to His chosen people. He…
Created 5 months ago
Nehemiah 9:17 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:6 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:7 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:8 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:9 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:10 (ESV), 1 Corinthians 10:11 (ESV), Hebrews 6:4 (ESV), Hebrews 6:5 (ESV), Hebrews 6:6 (ESV), Hebrews 10:26 (ESV), Hebrews 10:27 (ESV), Hebrews 10:28 (ESV), Hebrews 10:29 (ESV), Hebrews 10:30 (ESV), Hebrews 10:31 (ESV), Hebrews 12:15 (ESV), Hebrews 12:16 (ESV), Hebrews 12:17 (ESV)
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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
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Prayers of a Righteous Man
Truly, the prayers of a righteous man avails much. A bonus answer: (20:17)
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-19
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I kept you from sinning
God overcame Abimelech's desires to sin by overcoming the heart.
Created 5 months ago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks
2012-01-16
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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
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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
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Revealed Truth
Matthew 11:26-27 (ESV)
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.Created 5 months ago
Labels: revelation sovereignty
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-07
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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
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Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark
2012-01-05
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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
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2012-01-05
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2012-01-01
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2012-01-01