Archive: Scripture
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Oct 10, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Psalm 71
For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth. Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you. Psalms 71:5-6...
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Sep 22, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Romans 5:1
..since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 Can you say you have peace with God? I look out on my friends and this world around me and I have to say I don’t see the peace that they claim they have. Our lives...
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Sep 20, 2011
No CommentsVerse – Psalm 51:6-7
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Psalms 51:6-7 We KNOW that our hearts are deceitful & incurable (Jer 17:9) but what is this “secret heart”?...
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Sep 19, 2011
No CommentsVerse : Psalms 50:2-3
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest. Psalms 50:2-3 I love how the Psalm speaks to the reader, clear and reliable judgment of God comes from the very nature around us, even the...
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Aug 17, 2011
No CommentsVerse: 1 Timothy 6:20-21
Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. 1 Timothy 6:20-21 In this final instruction in 1st Timothy there is clear instructions to avoid the thinking of the “rich” in earthly possessions. One of the discussions I most often have with unChristian...
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Aug 12, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Ephesians 3:11-13
This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. Ephesians 3:11-12 We are to have boldness as we approach God… Boldness: not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or...
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Aug 10, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Colossians 3:16-17
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through...
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Aug 05, 2011
No CommentsWitnessing : Faith in power of God
1 Corinthians 2:2-6 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith...
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Jul 30, 2011
No CommentsProclaim – so what ARE we preaching?
Colossians 1:27-28 ESV To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in...
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Jul 20, 2011
No CommentsVerse: Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. Proverbs...
