Jump Start # 3508
Jump Start # 3508 Psalms 35:18 “I will give You thanks in the great congregation; I will praise You among a mighty throng.” Throughout our Bibles, we read of great crowds assembled. The scene from Daniel 3, where Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego refuse to bow, appears to be a massive crowd. Governors, treasurers, judges, counselors […]
Jump Start # 3507
Jump Start # 3507 1 Corinthians 11:14 “Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him.” Our verse today is a tough one. It’s found in a series of tough passages. The covering. Length of hair. A lot of discussion, debates, and pages upon […]
Jump Start # 3506
Jump Start # 3506 Matthew 4:4 “but He answered and said, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’” Our verse today takes us to Matthew’s account of the Lord’s temptation. Alone in the wilderness, hungry from fasting, the devil thought […]
Jump Start # 3505
Jump Start # 3505 1 Corinthians 15:58 “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.” In a series of classes that I am teaching on Expectations, I listed a dozen things that often shake the faith of […]
Jump Start # 3504
Jump Start # 3504 Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Our verse today not only ends the book of Judges, but it ends one of the saddest and darkest stories in the Bible. It begins two chapters before, in chapter 19, […]