Tom Reusch

  • A New Heart

    Luke 5:27-32 (NIV)
    After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him,

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Shrink from Death?

    Revelation 12:11 (NIV)
    They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Overcomers

    John 16:33 (NIV)
    "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Hearing v Doing

    Romans 2:13 (NIV)
    For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • The Older Brother Stayed Home

    Luke 15:12 (NIV)
    The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.

    Created about 1 month ago

  • The Love of Christ

    Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

    Created about 1 month ago

  • Romans 1:16-17

    Romans 1:16-17 (NIV)
    For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

    Created 3 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2012-01-23

  • 1 Samuel 16:14, 1 Samuel 16:19, 1 Samuel 16:22

    1 Samuel 16:14 (NASB)
    Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.

    1 Samuel 16:19 (NASB)
    So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David who is with the flock."

    1 Samuel 16:22 (NASB)
    Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight."

    Created 7 months ago

  • Fear

    So Jesse just found out that his youngest son was going to be king soon...and now he gets a command format he current king to send his son off to the palace. He must have thought that this was the enemy…

    Created 7 months ago

    1 Samuel 16:14 (KJV), 1 Samuel 16:19 (KJV)

  • 1 Samuel 16:11

    1 Samuel 16:11 (NASB)
    And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the children?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep." Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."

    Created 7 months ago

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2011-10-24

  • Fill It With Oil

    "Fill your horn with oil and go".  We know they drenched people with the oil, making sure the horn is 'full' may imply that a complete and total 'maximum' drenching was more desirable than a lesser drenching?…

    Created 7 months ago

    1 Samuel 16:1 (NASB)

  • Revelation 12:11

    Revelation 12:11 (NIV)
    They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

    Created 9 months ago

  • Romans 12:2

    Romans 12:2 (NASB)
    And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

    Created 12 months ago

  • Romans 12:1

    Romans 12:1 (NASB)
    Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

    Created 12 months ago

  • Joshua 24:15

    Joshua 24:15 (NIV)
    But if serving the lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the lord."

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 1:20

    Romans 1:20 (NASB)
    For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Romans 1:20

    Romans 1:20 (NASB)
    For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

    Created about 1 year ago

  • Proverbs 22:6

    Proverbs 22:6 (NASB)
    Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • John 6:22

    John 6:22 (NASB)
    The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Luke 23:12

    Luke 23:12 (NASB)
    Now Herod and Pilate became friends with one another that very day; for before they had been enemies with each other.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Luke 1:43

    Luke 1:43 (NASB)
    And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Mark 8:21

    Mark 8:21 (NASB)
    And He was saying to them, "Do you not yet understand?"

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Mark 8:14

    Mark 8:14 (NASB)
    And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Mark 4:23

    Mark 4:23 (NASB)
    If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 11:30

    Matthew 11:30 (NIV)
    For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 10:39

    Matthew 10:39 (NIV)
    Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Matthew 10:27

    Matthew 10:27 (NIV)
    What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs.

    Created about 1 year ago

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  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Bookmarks

    2011-04-28

  • Earned a Badge — Created Your First Bookmark

    2011-04-27

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2011-04-26

  • Started Following lukusalderman

    about 1 year

  • Started Following GeoffGirardin

    about 1 year

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2011-01-11

  • Pharaoh Unscathed?

    Reading vs 14 makes me think that Pharaoh went unscathed so far from all the previous plagues. His servants and such probably feared Moses words and protected themselves as much as possible, like people…

    Created almost 2 years ago

    Exodus 9:14 (NASB)

  • Original Plans

    Another person commented on how they thought that God was instructing Moses and the elders to lie to Pharaoh and that lying may not actually be a black and white issue in the bible. I think that this…

    Created almost 2 years ago

    Exodus 3:18 (NASB)

  • Eye Witness

    This verse illustrates something that I have probably overlooked in the past. The fact that Esau's words were 'reported' to Jacob and his mother imply that other people heard them. People that may or…

    Created almost 2 years ago

    Genesis 27:42 (ASV)

  • Leftovers

    I'm trying to read logically from the scriptural accounts of Noah and his family, and I'm struggling with the way we perhaps have romanticized this story for children in nurseries and classrooms. I can't…

    Created almost 2 years ago

    Genesis 7:23 (ASV)

  • And by the way...

    The subtleties of what the author writes to close out verse 16 is just beautiful and telling. Just throwing in the small statement, he made all the other stars also, is like saying, he created about a…

    Created almost 2 years ago

    Genesis 1:16 (ASV)