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Bible Memory collection
Everything the Bible later says about worship, work, dignity and rest rests on these opening claims about who made the world and what human beings are. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The sentence assumes God and explains everything else, which is the opposite…
Bible Memory collection
Before you memorise what Jesus does, memorise who he is. These passages guard the church from a smaller Christ than the Bible gives. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John opens his gospel before Genesis 1 opens. John 14:6 Jesus answers…
Bible Memory collection
Christianity does not stand on an idea, it stands on a body that came out of a grave. These verses give you the historical claim and its consequences for your own death. 1 Corinthians 15:20 Christ has been raised as the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. His resurrection is the first of…
Bible Memory collection
Every believer is sent, though not every believer is sent far. These verses tell you the task, the authority behind it, and the promise inside it. Matthew 28:18-20 All authority belongs to Jesus, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising and teaching them, and he is with us to the…
Bible Memory verse
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes, and you will be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. It names the resource before the reach. Witness is the Spirit's work through ordinary people. Luke 24:47-49 Acts 4:31 Romans 1:16 Spirit of God, give me power to…
Bible Memory verse
The heavens declare God's glory and the expanse shows his handiwork. David treats creation as a witness that speaks without words, and the psalm goes on to set God's law beside it. It teaches you to read the world as testimony rather than scenery, while still needing Scripture to know God by name.…
Bible Memory verse
I sought the Lord and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. It is a testimony, so it gives you words for what God has already done and confidence to seek him again. Psalms 34:18 Psalms 118:5 Hebrews 13:6 Lord, I am seeking you with this fear. Answer me and deliver me as you have…
Bible Memory verse
When the goodness and loving kindness of God our Saviour appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous works we had done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, poured out richly through Jesus Christ, so that justified by grace we would become…
Chapter study
John 15 is spoken in motion. Jesus has just finished the Passover meal with His disciples, and John 14 ends with the words 'arise, let us go hence.' Many readers take that sentence as the close of a scene rather than…
Dig Deeper
John 15:7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. Two ifs stand in front of the promise. Read the sentence as a whole and the will in ask what you…
Dig Deeper
John 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. The Greek verb meno means to remain, to stay, to continue in a…
Dig Deeper
John 15:2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Two verbs. The first removes, the second cleans or prunes. Both involve a…
Verse study
μείνατε ἐν ἐμοί, κἀγὼ ἐν ὑμῖν meinate en emoi, kago en hymin Greek Meno means to remain, dwell, or stay put; it is used throughout John's Gospel and epistles for continuous, settled relationship rather than a single…
Verse study
μείζονα ταύτης ἀγάπην οὐδεὶς ἔχει meizona tautes agapen oudeis echei Greek Agape here denotes love as costly commitment and action rather than mere emotion; the sentence structure sets an absolute superlative with no…
Verse study
ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἄμπελος ἡ ἀληθινή ego eimi he ampelos he alethine Greek Ego eimi echoes the divine self-naming of Exodus 3:14; ampelos is the ordinary word for grapevine; alethinos means genuine or real, as distinct from a…
Verse study
εἴρηκα ὑμᾶς φίλους eireka hymas philous Greek Philous comes from phileo, love marked by warm affection and companionship, distinguished from the more general agapao used elsewhere for love as command. The difference…
52 Week Journey
The word gospel means news, not advice. News is either told or it is not news at all, and Scripture treats the spread of the gospel as something that happens through people speaking, not through ideas circulating on…
Verse study
χωρὶς ἐμοῦ οὐ δύνασθε ποιεῖν οὐδέν choris emou ou dynasthe poiein ouden Greek Choris means apart from or separated from; the double negative construction (ou... ouden) intensifies the statement to an absolute nothing.…
Verse study
οὐχ ὑμεῖς με ἐξελέξασθε, ἀλλ' ἐγὼ ἐξελεξάμην ὑμᾶς ouch hymeis me exelexasthe, all' ego exelexamen hymas Greek Eklegomai means to select or choose out from among others; the same verb family used of God's election of…
Devotional
2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. WEB Paul explains his own drive to persuade people, mentioned in the verse just before this…
Devotional
Matthew 28:19-20 Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you…
Devotional
Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have. WEB The disciples' first reaction to the risen Jesus is fear, supposing…
Devotional
Romans 10:14-15 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? And how will they preach unless they are…
Devotional
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. WEB Paul writes this to a church in Rome,…
Devotional
2 Timothy 4:7-8 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me…
Devotional
1 Corinthians 15:6 Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. WEB Paul is not writing decades after the fact to people who could not verify…
Devotional
Joshua 21:45 Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass. WEB This verse comes at the close of the conquest narrative, after the land has been distributed to the…
Devotional
John 4:39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did." WEB The woman at the well has no training and a complicated past that…
Devotional
Acts 8:35 Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him Jesus. WEB An angel sends Philip to a desert road, and the Spirit tells him to join a specific chariot. He finds a man reading…
Devotional
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear. WEB Peter writes to believers…
Devotional
Romans 3:21-22 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who…
Devotional
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set…
Devotional
1 Samuel 17:45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have…
Devotional
Mark 16:6 He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen! He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!" WEB The women in Mark's account go to the tomb…
Devotional
Mark 1:14-15 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good…
Reading plan day
The psalm pictures faith as something handed on: one generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. It is a psalm about the responsibility of telling someone younger what God has…
Reading plan day
The psalm moves from the wordless witness of the skies, which declare God's glory without saying a word, to the words of his law, which make his character plain. Together they show that God has always been speaking,…
Reading plan day
John the Baptist is given a large role in this chapter only to insist, again and again, that he is not the one people should be looking at. Every true witness to Jesus in this gospel does the same thing: points away…
Biblical concept
A covenant is a formal bond with promises, obligations and a sign. God's covenants with Noah, Abraham, Israel and David each carry a sign or an oath, and each is initiated by God. Jeremiah 31 promises a new covenant…
Biblical concept
The kingdom of God is God's rule, not a territory. Mark opens the ministry of Jesus with the announcement that the kingdom of God has come near, and calls for repentance and faith as the response. Scripture speaks of…
Biblical concept
John opens his gospel by saying that the Word already was in the beginning, that the Word was with God, and that the Word was God. Three claims are made in one sentence: the Word is eternal, the Word is distinct from…
Christian Living
Matthew 28:19-20 Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you…
Bible question
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. WEB Let God answer this before anyone comforts you or frightens you about it. 1 John…
Bible question
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the…
Bible question
Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.” WEB Three sentences of stated purpose, two from Jesus and one from Paul. Read them before any explanation, and notice that each one names the…
The Sunday Study
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