Monthly Archives: October 2010

07

Jump Start # 194

Jump Start # 194 Titus 3:3-5a “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending out life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior had His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds […]

06

Jump Start # 193

Jump Start # 193 Revelation 3:17 “Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”  Those Christians at Laodicea were sure mixed up. They thought everything was great. They boasted about how […]

05

Jump Start # 192

Jump Start # 192 3 John 9-10 “I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say. For this reason, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words; and not satisfied with this, […]

04

Jump Start # 191

Jump Start # 191 1 John 3:13 “Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.”   There is no missing the thought found in this passage! John doesn’t try to soften the reality that Christians are going upstream in a downstream world and that we are dwelling in enemy territory. John said at […]

03

Jump Start # 190

Jump Start # 190 Matthew 17:5 “While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him.’”   The transfiguration of Jesus Christ. There is nothing else like it in the Bible. […]