Jump Start # 1018
Jump Start # 1018 Proverbs 23:1-2 “When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are a man of great appetite.” I love the Proverbs. They are not only intensely practical, they seem to cover about everything in life […]
Jump Start # 1017
Jump Start # 1017 Proverbs 24:10 “If you are slack in the day of distress, your strength is limited.” This verse speaks what we already know. Other versions translate this: “If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength!” A person often doesn’t know how much or how little strength […]
Jump Start # 1016
Jump Start # 1016 Genesis 2:19-20 “Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to […]
Jump Start # 1015
Jump Start # 1015 Psalms 134:1 “Behold, bless the Lord, all servants of the Lord, who serve by night in the house of the Lord! I find our passage from Psalms 134 to be unique and interesting. It comes from a very short Psalms—it’s only three verses long (42 words). Of those few words, […]
Jump Start # 1014
Jump Start # 1014 Revelation 2:15 “So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolatians. The book of Revelation was written to seven specific churches. Theories abound about what those seven churches represent. Some feel that they illustrate cycles all churches go through. Others see church history represented […]