Monthly Archives: December 2014

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Jump Start # 1244

Jump Start # 1244 Ecclesiastes 10:10 “If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen it’s edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of giving success.”   I’ve been teaching the book of Ecclesiastes on Sundays. Our verse today comes from a section that describes the destructive nature of foolishness. […]

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Jump Start # 1243

Jump Start # 1243 Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”   Today, we wrap up our series on “trying to figure […]

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Jump Start # 1242

Jump Start # 1242 Genesis 3:4-5 “The serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’”   We continue our thoughts this week on trying to understand God. […]

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Jump Start # 1241

Jump Start # 1241 2 Kings 5:11 “But Naaman was furious and went away and said, ‘Behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.’”   We continue our look at […]

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Jump Start # 1240

Jump Start # 1240 Job 4:7 “Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?”   Yesterday in our Jump Start, we looked at a passage from Habakkuk where the prophet had a hard time understanding how God could use a more wicked nation to punish Israel. He simply could not […]