Monthly Archives: July 2017

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Jump Start # 1898

Jump Start # 1898 Psalms 25:7 “Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your lovingkindness remember me, for Your goodness sake, O Lord.”   Our verse today is one of David’s Psalms. It’s a prayer. It is about remembering and forgetting. He was asking God to forget some things […]

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Jump Start # 1897

Jump Start # 1897 Proverbs 10:7 “The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.”   Our verse is about remembering people, not just anyone, but specifically the righteous. Most can remember school teachers, coaches, neighbors. These folks are in our lives for a short while. Some make differences […]

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Jump Start # 1896

Jump Start # 1896 Romans 2:16 “on the day according to my Gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Jesus Christ.”   Our verse follows a stream of thoughts in which Paul shows that the Gentiles, who do not have the Law of Moses, instinctively do the things that are written in the […]

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Jump Start # 1895

Jump Start # 1895   2 Peter 1:12 “Therefore, I shall always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you.”   Often in Peter’s second letter he states that he is reminding them of the things that […]

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Jump Start # 1894

Jump Start # 1894 2 Peter 1:5 “Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge.”   Our verse today comes from the series of expressions often called the Christian virtues. These verses define the character and the heart of a disciple of […]