Jump Start # 209
Jump Start # 209 1 Timothy 4:15 “Take pains with these things, be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident to all.” Paul writes to Timothy about preaching, but more so, about the Christian life. The older preacher and the younger preacher. The apostle and the young disciple. Experienced and inexperience. That […]
Jump Start # 208
Jump Start # 208 1 Corinthians 6:18 “Flee fornication. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.” A serious warning—few take the words to heart. God said it in the 10 Commandments, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Now, centuries later, God states […]
Jump Start # 207
Jump Start # 207 Mark 11:29-30 “And Jesus said to them, ‘I will ask you one question, and you answer Me, and then I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ‘Was the baptism of John from Heaven , or from men? Answer me.’” Our passage for today takes place near the […]
Jump Start # 206
Jump Start # 206 Luke 5:19-20 “But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, He said, ‘Friend, your sins are forgiven […]
Jump Start # 205
Jump Start # 205 Luke 15:4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?” This passage begins the threefold series of parables that define God […]