Monthly Archives: August 2013

09

Jump Start # 913

  Jump Start # 913 Psalms 63:3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. David loved the Lord. David attained a relationship with the Lord that many never do.  It was close, personal, practical, and real. He talked to God as if the Lord was sitting directly across from him. […]

08

Jump Start # 912

  Jump Start # 912   2 Peter 1:8 “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless  nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”   Our verse today follows the list of what is often called the “virtues” of a Christian. Peter identifies eight qualities […]

07

Jump Start # 911

  Jump Start # 911 Acts 5:38-39 “So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you […]

06

Jump Start # 910

  Jump Start # 910 Acts 2:23 “this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.” A question that is often asked, kicked around, used for discussion in Bible classes is whether or not Jesus had […]

05

Jump Start # 909

  Jump Start # 909 Exodus 10:20 “But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go.”   A friend at church recently asked me to write a Jump Start about God hardening Pharaoh’s heart. So, I’ll take a stab at this. What makes this passage tough to understand […]