Monthly Archives: June 2011

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Jump Start # 371

Jump Start # 371 Matthew 6:5 “When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.”   Praying, but more […]

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Jump Start # 370

Jump Start # 370 Matthew 5:44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”   Our verse today comes from the sermon on the mount. There’s nothing easy about it. In fact, much of the sermon on the mount is that way. Jesus turned things upside down and […]

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Jump Start # 369

Jump Start # 369 Psalms 14:1 “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.”    The designation of a  “fool” is the strongest language in the Bible. In the book of Proverbs there are many contrasts between […]

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Jump Start # 368

Jump Start # 368 Psalms 139:1-4 “O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on […]

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Jump Start # 367

Jump Start # 367 Mark 16:15-16 “And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.”   These verses are called the great commission. It was instructions directed to […]