Monthly Archives: January 2012

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Jump Start # 519

Jump Start # 519  Luke 15:1-2 “Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming hear Him to listen to Him. Both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble, saying, ‘This man receives sinners and eat with them.’”   Our verse today sets the stage for three great parables of Jesus. Instead of […]

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Jump Start # 518

Jump Start # 518  Acts 9:36 Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.   Dorcas finds her place in our Bibles for one main reason—she died and Peter resurrected her.  She made […]

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Jump Start # 517

Jump Start # 517 1 Thessalonians 4:1 “Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.”     Paul puts before us a wonderful concept—walking […]

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Jump Start # 516

Jump Start # 516  Matthew 4:4 “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”    Words—that powerful, ancient and wonderful way of communication is the avenue God chose to reveal His will and open His heart […]

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Jump Start # 515

Jump Start # 515  Proverbs 26:10 “Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.”   This passage identifies the importance of connection and more so of presence. […]