Monthly Archives: April 2024

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Jump Start # 3566

Jump Start # 3566 Jonah 2:10 “Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.” Jonah and the whale, as it is commonly pictured, makes for great VBS material and kids Bible class lessons. But this isn’t a story for kids. Stuck in the midst of the prophets crying […]

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Jump Start # 3565

Jump Start # 3565 James 1:3 “knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.” God provides lessons for us every day if we have open eyes to see them. In a recent lesson about Developing Deep Roots, I used the illustration of tree rings. We’ve all seen a log or tree cut down and […]

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Jump Start # 3564

Jump Start # 3564 Luke 15:28 “But he became angry, and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began entreating him.” That brother of the prodigal son thought he was so different than his wild and wayward brother, but he wasn’t. He thought he was hand-in-hand with the father, but […]

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Jump Start # 3563

Jump Start # 3563 Leviticus 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.” I am currently teaching aspects of the book of Leviticus. […]

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Jump Start # 3562

Jump Start # 3562 1 Corinthians 4:11 “To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless” One of the powerful lessons we see in the lives of the early disciples is that they had a kingdom focus. They viewed themselves as simply a part of […]