Jump Start # 3615
Jump Start # 3615 Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 “Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you. For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.” Our verse today is a great reminder. It is very helpful on two fronts. First, don’t […]
Jump Start # 3614
Jump Start # 3614 Luke 9:23 “And He was saying to them all, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’” As our Lord defines discipleship in our verse today, we find it layered with major principles. First, there is the desire aspect. […]
Jump Start # 3613
Jump Start # 3613 Proverbs 17:14 “The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.” I’ve been reading William Baxter’s book on Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove. It’s about Civil War battles that took place in Arkansas. Baxter was an eyewitness to those things. I’ve have been […]
Jump Start # 3612
Jump Start # 3612 Hebrews 10:24-25 “Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.” Here in our passage, the Holy Spirit leads the […]
Jump Start # 3611
Jump Start # 3611 Matthew 25:13 “Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.” In Matthew 25, Jesus presents three word pictures of the coming judgment. It begins with the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. Our verse today ends that section with the warning to be […]