Monthly Archives: February 2012

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Jump Start # 545

Jump Start # 545  Proverbs 26:22 “The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts.”   Our passage today shows how delicious and desirable gossip can be, even though gossip is wrong. One of the difficulties of dealing with wrong things is that they seem to be […]

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Jump Start # 544

Jump Start # 544  Proverbs 21:16 “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”    Our passage today is a reminder to stay diligent with God’s word and to remain steadfast about the divine way. We are presented in this passage with an image of a […]

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Jump Start # 543

Jump Start # 543 Luke 15:29-30 “But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;  but when this son […]

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Jump Start # 542

Jump Start # 542 Hebrews 12:7 “It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?”    Our passage today shows us how God views Christians and it helps explain why God does what He does. He views Christians as […]

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Jump start # 541

Jump Start # 541 Romans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”   Paul defines the powerful gospel message of Jesus Christ. This message defined his life. He preached it everywhere. […]