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Bible Memory collection
Every list of gifts in the New Testament comes with the same purpose attached: the good of the church. Learn these and you have the rule for reading the rest. 1 Peter 4:10 As each has received a gift, serve one another with it as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. The word for…
Bible Memory collection
Scripture speaks about Christ's return with certainty about the fact and restraint about the timing. These verses hold both. Acts 1:11 As the disciples watch Jesus ascend, they are told that this same Jesus will come back in the same way they saw him go. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 The Lord will come…
Bible Memory verse
Out of Bethlehem, small among the towns of Judah, comes one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old. Matthew records the chief priests quoting this verse to Herod. It shows prophecy that is specific enough to be checked, and it keeps Christmas tied to the Old Testament rather…
Reading plan
Advent is practised waiting. Each day pairs a promise with its fulfilment, so that hope is trained on something that has already proved reliable. Hope Salvation Peace This plan draws from two sets of writers: the…
52 Week Journey
Every week so far has looked at what God has done and what he is doing. This week looks forward, to what he has promised he will do. The New Testament writers do not treat the return of Christ as a private theory for…
Devotional
2 Timothy 3:16 Every writing is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness WEB Paul writes this to Timothy about the Hebrew Scriptures Timothy…
Devotional
1 Corinthians 15:54-55 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory." "Death, where is…
Devotional
Revelation 22:20 He who testifies these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus! WEB The very last words of the book of Revelation, and near the last words of the whole Bible, are a promise…
Devotional
Revelation 1:7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. WEB John opens Revelation with this…
Devotional
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. WEB A thief does not announce an arrival time. Paul uses that image deliberately to describe the day of the…
Devotional
Matthew 24:36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. WEB Jesus has just described signs, wars, and the coming of the Son of Man in verses full of detail. Then he stops…
Devotional
Luke 19:13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.' WEB Jesus tells this parable specifically because the crowd supposed the Kingdom of God was going…
Devotional
Matthew 25:10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. WEB Ten virgins wait for a bridegroom who is delayed, and five…
Devotional
Acts 1:11 who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky." WEB The…
Devotional
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. WEB John holds together a…
Reading plan day
A Roman census, ordered for the empire's own administrative reasons, is the very thing that brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, fulfilling Micah's centuries old prophecy. Even the machinery of empire ends up serving…
Biblical concept
The prophets use this phrase for a day when God steps into history openly. Amos 5:18 warns Israel not to long for it lightly, because it is darkness and not light for those unprepared. In the New Testament the same…
Christian Living
Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; WEB titus 2 Paul reduces the future to a Person and calls it a blessed hope. The verse sits inside…
Bible question
Revelation 21:3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. WEB Heaven…
Bible question
2 Timothy 3:16 Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, WEB Before asking historians, ask what Scripture says about its own origin.…
The Sunday Study
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