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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
The Bible says less about heaven's furniture than about its centre, which is God himself with his people. These verses keep the hope accurate. John 14:2-3 Jesus says his Father's house has many rooms, he is going to prepare a place, and he will come back so that we may be with him. 2 Corinthians…
Bible Memory collection
Scripture does not present God's rule as a theory to debate but as a comfort to lean on. These passages say plainly that nothing reaches you outside his hand. Psalms 115:3 The psalmist answers those who ask where Israel's God is by saying he is in the heavens and does whatever he pleases. The…
Bible Memory verse
Nebuchadnezzar, restored after his humbling, confesses that God does according to his will among the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth, and that no one can stop his hand or ask him what he is doing. The confession comes from a pagan king, which is part of the point. It removes the…
Bible Memory verse
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The sentence assumes God and explains everything else, which is the opposite order from most ancient accounts of the world's origin. It is the first foundation. If God made everything, then nothing you meet today is outside his ownership,…
Bible Memory verse
The psalmist answers those who ask where Israel's God is by saying he is in the heavens and does whatever he pleases. The contrast in the psalm is with idols that have mouths and cannot speak. It is the shortest statement of God's freedom in the Bible. When you cannot trace what God is doing, this…
Bible Memory verse
We were buried with him through baptism into death so that, as Christ was raised, we too may live a new life. It explains why resurrection changes Monday. New life is not postponed to heaven, it starts now in ordinary conduct. Colossians 3:1-3 2 Corinthians 5:17 Galatians 2:20 Father, I was buried…
52 Week Journey
Scripture's final hope is not escape from a physical world into a purely spiritual one. It is a new heaven and a new earth, a city coming down, a resurrection body, a wedding supper. The Bible ends where it began, in a…
Verse study
לֹא חָשַׂכְתָּ lo chasakta Hebrew You did not hold back or spare. The verb describes keeping something in reserve, out of reach. Genesis says Abraham kept nothing in reserve. What God says He now knows Now I know that…
Devotional
Revelation 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. WEB John does not see souls departing the earth for a disembodied heaven. He sees a…
Devotional
Ecclesiastes 3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; WEB The Preacher lists weeping and mourning alongside laughing and dancing, as things that have their proper time under…
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
Matthew 12:36-37 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. WEB Jesus is not…
Devotional
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 The verse…
Devotional
Matthew 13:44 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field. WEB The man does not calculate whether…
Devotional
John 14:2-3 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself;…
Devotional
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. WEB This promise does not describe…
Devotional
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away. WEB The image is personal, God…
Devotional
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, WEB Paul writes to a Roman colony, Philippi, whose citizens were proud of their Roman citizenship even…
Devotional
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. WEB The psalm opens not with a request but with observation. Before David says a word about himself, he says something about the sky,…
Devotional
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. WEB Psalm 19 pairs two kinds of speech: the wordless declaration of the skies, verses 1 to 6, and the perfect, sure, right words of the…
Devotional
Mark 10:14-15 But Jesus, when he saw it, was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Most certainly I tell you,…
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
Philippians 2:9-10 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the…
Devotional
1 Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep. WEB Paul is correcting believers in Corinth who doubted a future bodily resurrection. His argument…
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…
Devotional
Revelation 19:9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.” WEB Revelation pictures the culmination of redemption as a…
Reading plan day
The psalmist lifts his eyes to the hills and asks where his help will come from, then answers his own question: from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. The size of the creator is the ground of the psalm's confidence.…
Reading plan day
This psalm celebrates God's steadfast love and faithfulness as things that will be sung about forever, established as firm as the heavens, rooted in the covenant promises he made to David's line long before Christ…
Biblical concept
After feeding a crowd, Jesus says he is the bread of life, and that whoever comes to him will not hunger. The claim is deliberately connected to the manna: their fathers ate and died, and this bread is different. Bread…
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
The phrase appears in Matthew, where parallel passages in Mark and Luke read kingdom of God. Matthew 19:23 and Mark 10:23 report the same saying with the two phrases, which is the plainest evidence that they name the…
Place in Scripture
Mountains in Scripture are meeting places. Abraham is sent to a mountain in Moriah, Moses receives the law on Sinai, the temple is built on a hill in Jerusalem, Jesus teaches, is transfigured, prays and is crucified on…
Biblical concept
2 Corinthians 5:17 says that if anyone is in Christ there is a new creation, and that old things have passed away. The change is described as God's work, not self improvement. Revelation 21 extends the same word to the…
Biblical concept
This is the title Jesus uses of himself more than any other. In Ezekiel the phrase simply means a human being, but in Daniel 7 one like a son of man comes with the clouds and receives an everlasting kingdom from the…
Christian Living
Revelation 21:3-4 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. He will…
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 Corinthians 5:8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord. WEB On a question no one can research, God's word must speak first. 2 Corinthians 5:6-8…
The Sunday Study
Verse-by-verse teaching with historical context, and a prayer to close. Nothing else in the email.