Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Jump Start # 135

Jump Start # 135 Job 1:14-19 “a messenger came to Job and said, ‘The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them and the Sabeans attacked and took them. They also slew the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.’ While he was still speaking, another […]

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Jump Start # 134

Jump Start # 134 Job 1:8 “The Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God and turning away from evil.’”   Our verse for today introduces the book of Job. Job is found in our Bibles […]

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Jump Start # 133

Jump Start # 133 Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”   In the ancient Hebrew Bible the opening words of a book became the title. Genesis was called, “In the beginning.” Later it was shortened to “Beginnings,” which is the definition of the word “Genesis.”   This is how […]

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Jump Start # 132

Jump Start # 132 Genesis 4:6-7 “Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must […]

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Jump Start # 131

Jump Start # 131 Genesis 13:8-9 “So Abram said to Lot, ‘Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or […]