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52 Week Journey
…what a restored life produces afterward. Luke 15:11-24 The parable of the prodigal son: a son who leaves, a famine that wakes him, a road home, and a father already running. Return, and I Will Return God names the…
Chapter study
…Scripture will later say about sacrifice begins here: a father, a son, a mountain, wood carried uphill, a substitute provided at the last moment, and a name for God that Israel never forgot. It also sits near the centre…
Chapter study
…speaking. Paul had watched Stephen die, had been beaten, stoned, imprisoned and abandoned. When he writes that nothing can separate us, he is not writing from a quiet study. He is writing from the middle of the list he…
Bible study
Paul's field manual for anxiety, written from a prison cell Philippians 4:6-7 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of…
Dig Deeper
…them. Read the chapter's own explanation in verse 3. God sent His own Son and condemned sin in the flesh. Condemnation fell, and it fell on Him. Verse 1 is not the removal of a sentence but the announcement that the…
Chapter study
…1 John 3:12 contrasts the two men's deeds. Genesis itself pairs the person with the gift in both verses. The third position is the only one Scripture states. Genesis 4 gives no reason, Leviticus 2 later commands and…
Chapter study
…Father the husbandman in the same breath. Isaiah 5:1-7 The prophet's song of the vineyard pictures Israel as God's vine, carefully planted and yet yielding wild grapes. Notice what 'true' sets this vine apart from…
Chapter study
…searching than the slogans suggest. Paul writes this chapter from prison, likely in Rome, chained to a Roman soldier, uncertain whether he will live or die (Philippians 1:20-24). Every instruction to rejoice, every…
Chapter study
…wisdom writing of Scripture even though it stands at the head of the songbook. Read it first as one piece. The psalm describes one person in verses 1 to 3, denies all of it of another in verses 4 to 5, and closes in…
Chapter study
…can. Then work through the verses below one at a time. There is no reason to hurry through six verses that have held up for three thousand years. If the Lord is my shepherd, why does the path still go through the…
Verse study
…not soothe anxiety by promising that nothing hard will happen. He reasons. If God has already given the most costly thing He could give, the smaller gifts are not in question. The logic only works one direction. It…
Verse study
…line by echoing Genesis 22 word for word: He that spared not his own Son. What Abraham was stopped from doing, God did. Leviticus 1:4 The hand laid on the offering's head, so that it is accepted in the worshipper's…
Verse study
…sentence given back Romans 8:32 says of God that He spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all. Paul is reaching back to this mountain and using its verb. Read together, the two verses do something no…
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Romans 8:32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? The argument runs from the greater to the lesser. If God has already given the…
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…writes this to a church that had just sent him money while he sat in prison. He says need, not comfort, and he says it in a letter where he has also learned how to be in want. Philippians 4:12 I know how to be humbled,…
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…Jesus. Read alongside Romans 8:32, the logic is that a God who gave His Son will not withhold what His people actually require, though He reserves the right to define the requirement. How to hold the promise honestly Do…
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…It is a description of how prayer works in a real relationship. A person soaked in Christ's words gradually stops asking for things Christ never wanted, and starts asking for things He has already said He intends to do.…
Dig Deeper
…he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. The next verse defines the good. It is conformity to Christ, not comfort, and Paul introduces…
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…is not Scripture does not answer Cain's question by making every person responsible for everything. Galatians 6:5 still says each will bear his own load, and the same chapter says to bear one another's burdens…
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…James rules out one meaning of the word entirely. God never draws a person toward evil. Whatever Genesis 22 is, it is not that. Deuteronomy 8:2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these…
Dig Deeper
…thoughts in Christ Jesus. Keep translates a military term for a garrison standing guard. The peace does not remove the threat, it stands between the threat and the heart. 2 Corinthians 11:28 Besides those things that…
Biblical concept
…evidence for this is not an argument from theory but a direct comparison of texts. When the rich young ruler walks away, Matthew records Jesus saying it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, while…
Biblical concept
In the gospels Son of God is not a title of honour handed round freely. When Jesus uses it of himself his hearers understand a claim to equality with God, which is why John 5:18 records the reaction it caused. The…
Biblical concept
…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 Ancient of Days. Jesus uses it for both his suffering and his glory. He…
Topic study
…hands. That is why the Bible can speak of hope as something a person holds fast, something that does not make a person ashamed, something laid up in heaven. A wish cannot be held. A promise can. Christian hope is never…
Topic study
…language of a covenant. God has spoken, and prayer is how the person who has heard him answers back. Take away God's prior speech and prayer collapses into a monologue with the ceiling. Because prayer is a covenant…
Biblical concept
…kingdom of God unless he is born again. Birth is something done to a person, which is the force of the image: nobody arranges their own birth. John 3:8 compares it to wind. You see the effect and you do not control the…
Biblical concept
…and this bread is different. Bread in Scripture stands for what a person cannot live without. To call himself bread is to say he is not an addition to life but the substance of it. Exodus 16:15 Israel wakes to find…
Biblical concept
…or curses. Deuteronomy follows that shape closely, which is one reason its structure reads as a legal document. Noah A covenant with all living creatures, with the rainbow as its sign. Abraham Promise of land, offspring…
Biblical concept
…called on the name of the Lord, which Joel promises is what brings a person safely through that day rather than under its judgement. Hebrew יוֹם יְהוָה yom YHWH day of the LORD Yom can mean a literal day or an appointed…
Biblical concept
…simplicity toward Christ, which makes deception a matter of what a person comes to believe rather than only of what he is told. Scripture also speaks of self-deception. 1 John 1:8 says that if we claim to have no sin we…
Biblical concept
…as her own. James 1:14 to 15 gives the sequence: desire draws a person away, then conceives and brings forth sin, and sin brings forth death. Galatians 5:16 to 17 sets the desire of the flesh against the Spirit, and…
Word and phrase
…1 John 5:11-13 God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Most people first hear eternal life as a claim about duration, life that simply does not stop. Scripture does teach that, but John's gospel…
Word and phrase
…Scripture names faith directly, and it happens while the promise of a son is still visibly unfulfilled. Genesis 15:6 The founding statement that faith, not law-keeping, is what God counts as righteousness, quoted by…
Word and phrase
…is recorded. The word appears before the flood narrative gives any reason for it, which sets the pattern for how grace works all through Scripture. Ephesians 2:8-9 States plainly that salvation is by grace, through…
Biblical concept
…argument in Romans 4 around. Galatians 2:16 States plainly that a person is not justified by works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 4:25 Ties justification to the resurrection, he was raised for our…
Biblical concept
…word is used of God and of human rulers, so Hebrew keeps the comparison in front of the reader constantly. Every human melek in Israel is read against the divine one. Greek βασιλεία basileia kingdom, reign, rule Often…
Biblical concept
…us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of his love. Daniel 2:44 The God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. When Jesus began to preach, he did not introduce…
Biblical concept
…holding cross and glory together. The title begins with a question a son asks his father on the way up a mountain. Isaac notices the wood and the fire but no animal, and asks where the lamb is. Abraham's answer, that…
Bible question
…between two kinds of sorrow, and what turning looks like when a real person does it. Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the…
Bible question
…neither will I in any way forsake you.” WEB For he has said. The reason to be content is a quotation from God, from Deuteronomy 31:6, so contentment rests on presence rather than on the size of what we hold. Scripture…
Bible question
…and in various ways, has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. WEB God has spoken finally in his Son. When God seems silent now, it…
Bible question
Psalms 2:7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father. WEB The title has a history. Read where it comes from, then hear it spoken over Jesus, then hear how his hearers…
Bible question
…conclusion for the rest of his life. Being heard once changes how a person prays forever. You are not the first believer to wonder whether the words are landing anywhere. Scripture keeps the record of people who prayed…
Bible question
…and all leaves nothing outside. Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.…
Bible question
…This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. WEB Jesus states the Father's will directly: that he lose…
Bible question
…when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” We heard this voice come out of heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain. We have the more sure word of…
Bible question
…itself points to. The risen Christ goes to the ones with the most reason to doubt: a denier, a doubter, a brother, and a persecutor. It is the one Christian claim that is openly historical, so it invites the question…
Bible question
…and a little oil, and was preparing a last meal for herself and her son before they died. The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth. She did as…
Bible question
…for the unusually devoted. 2 Peter 1:8 says these qualities keep a person from being 'barren nor unfruitful,' implying that the alternative, stagnation, is a genuine danger to be taken seriously. The apostle Peter,…
Bible question
…was Saul. Forgiveness prayed in the worst moment is possible when a person is looking at Christ. It is also never wasted, as Saul's later life proved. Stephen's prayer is almost the words of Jesus from the cross (Luke…
Bible question
…The Philippian jailer Acts 16:25-34 An earthquake had split open the prison where Paul and Silas were held. Believing his prisoners had escaped and that he would be executed for it, he drew his sword to kill himself.…
Bible question
…world. The question usually arrives attached to a decision: a job, a person, a city, a course. It feels urgent, and it often carries a fear of getting it wrong in a way that cannot be repaired. Underneath it is a good…
Bible question
…apostle himself Acts 17:11 They were taught by Paul and had every reason to accept him without question. Luke commends them as more noble for searching the Scriptures daily to see whether it was so. Discernment is not…
Bible question
…what God provides, where temptation comes from, and what a person actually does in the moment. 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. No temptation has taken you…
Bible question
…WEB The commands rest on something already true. Notice that the reason given for sin not having dominion is grace, not effort, and that the commands are about what a person presents their body to. Proverbs 28:13 He who…
Bible question
…happened to pick up a tool. The apostle Paul, likely from a Roman prison shortly before his execution Timothy, a young pastor Paul had mentored for years, now leading the church at Ephesus Second Timothy is Paul's last…
Bible question
…on your own understanding, which is exactly what difficulty tempts a person to do. The promise is direction, not explanation. Psalms 56:3-4 When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, I praise his word. In…
Bible question
…formula to repeat exactly. Not knowing how to pray is a good enough reason to ask. The men closest to Jesus asked to be taught. They asked because they had watched him pray, Luke 11:1. Christian prayer begins by…
Bible question
…of stoning rather than defusing it. The passage also shows him reasoning from the text with them rather than asserting alone. The high priest at the trial Mark 14:61-64 He asked directly, Are you the Christ, the Son of…
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