Jump Start # 2145
Jump Start # 2145 Luke 21:16 “but you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death, and you will be hated by all on account of My name.” Our passage today is not one that we hear preached often. It doesn’t fit […]
Jump Start # 2144
Jump Start # 2144 Psalms 92:14 “They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.” I was in Italy recently. We visited a farm that grew olive trees. Some of the trees were a thousand years old. They were still bearing olives. Still productive all those years […]
Jump Start # 2143
Jump Start # 2143 Galatians 1:6 “I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel.” Not long after Paul left the Galatia region, Jewish teachers followed. They were distorting, twisting and confusing what the new Christians had been taught. Now, they didn’t […]
Jump Start # 2142
Jump Start # 2142 Psalms 46:1 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Our verse today begins a powerful section that reminds us that not only is God in charge, but that He is there to help His people. Affirming that God makes wars cease and at His voice, […]
Jump Start # 2141
Jump Start # 2141 John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” This verse came to my mind yesterday. I finished reading a book that is subtitled, “Rethinking how you read the Bible.” That implies that we have not been reading the Bible correctly. A new way. New […]