Monthly Archives: July 2016

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Jump Start # 1655

Jump Start # 1655 1 Corinthians 8:13 “Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.”   Our verse is the personal conclusion Paul drew concerning the controversy of eating meats on idols. This was a huge problem in the […]

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Jump Start # 1654

Jump Start # 1654 Acts 10:29 “That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me.”   Our verse today is part of the opening conversation Peter had with Cornelius. God called Peter to go to Cornelius’s house and […]

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Jump Start # 1653

Jump Start # 1653 Ephesians 4:20-24 “But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that […]

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Jump Start # 1652

Jump Start # 1652 Genesis 6:11 “Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.”   Our verse today is very old. It describes the conditions before the flood. It gives reasons for God’s disappointment with mankind. Before this we find, “The Lord saw that the wickedness […]

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Jump Start # 1651

Jump Start # 1651 James 1:20 “for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.”    Anger—it’s the poison of our attitude and the destroyer of our soul. Our verse tells us that anger doesn’t accomplish goodness with God. The previous verse in James reminds us to be slow to anger. Far […]