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Bible Memory verse
The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you. He will never leave you or forsake you, so do not fear. It was spoken at a leadership transition, which is exactly the kind of moment we need it for. Hebrews 13:5 Joshua 1:9 Matthew 28:20 Father, you go before me into this. You will not leave…
Bible Memory verse
Submit yourselves to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Submission comes before resistance. It gives the order right. Resistance without surrender to God is willpower, and willpower loses. 1 Peter 5:6-9 Ephesians 4:27 Matthew 4:10 God, I submit to you first, and in your authority I…
Bible Memory verse
All authority belongs to Jesus, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising and teaching them, and he is with us to the end of the age. The command sits between authority and presence. It is not a burden handed to us alone. Acts 1:8 Mark 16:15 John 20:21 Lord, you have all authority…
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
Luke 9:51 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem. WEB From this verse, Luke's gospel turns and begins moving deliberately toward Jerusalem.…
Devotional
John 13:4-5 He arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them…
Devotional
Galatians 3:24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. WEB Paul pictures the law as a tutor, the household servant in the ancient world responsible for…
Devotional
Psalm 23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. WEB David, who was himself a shepherd before he was king, describes the LORD in the same terms he once used for his own work with sheep. The image is deliberately…
Reading plan day
David writes as a man who had actually kept sheep, so when he calls God his shepherd he means someone who leads, feeds, and protects, not a distant overseer. The psalm follows that care into green pastures and dark…
Reading plan day
Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding, the first of the seven signs John selects to reveal who Jesus is, and then drives merchants from the temple, showing that his authority reaches into both the ordinary and the…
Reading plan day
Jesus heals a man who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years, and does it on the Sabbath, which provokes a confrontation over his authority. His answer is startling: he claims the same authority to give life and to…
Reading plan day
Even the heart of a king, the chapter says, is like a stream of water in the Lord's hand, turned wherever he directs it. No human authority, however powerful, is outside of God's sovereign reach. Proverbs 21:2 Pray for…
Reading plan day
Solomon sends the lazy person to watch an ant, which works hard with no overseer telling it to. Diligence, the chapter argues, does not require someone standing over you, it is a discipline you choose on your own.…
Biblical concept
Israel began with God as king. Gideon refuses the crown by saying the LORD will rule over you (Judges 8:23), and when the people later demand a king like the nations, God tells Samuel they have not rejected you, they…
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
Messiah is Hebrew and Christ is Greek, and both mean anointed. In Israel priests, kings and occasionally prophets were anointed with oil to mark them as set apart for God's work. John 1:41 translates the word for 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…
Biblical concept
In John 10 Jesus says he is the good shepherd, and gives one mark of it: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He also says he knows his own and they know him, and that no one takes them out of his hand.…
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…
Christian Living
Mark 10:43-45 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all. For the Son of Man also…
Christian Living
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon. WEB matthew 6 Jesus treats…
Christian Living
Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men, WEB colossians 3 Paul writes this first to slaves, which means it applies to work far less pleasant than most of ours. The change he…
Bible question
2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves…
The Sunday Study
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