Tag: Bible study
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The Coverdale Bible
If loving Bible study makes me a nerd, then I don’t wanna be cool. For nerds like me, even the study of different Bible translations is fascinating. Certainly the Bible should be studied from a religious perspective. It’s also valuable for its historical significance and its unparalleled influence on philosophy, art, and literature. Furthermore, it…
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The Talking Dead
Perhaps you have considered what might be written on your tombstone one day, or what might be said of you at your funeral. We certainly want people to speak well of us when we’re gone. But in a sense we ourselves are still speaking, even after death, through the words that we have planted in…
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Barak — A Reluctant Leader
It is not easy to be the leader. Doesn’t the king lament that fact in Shakespeare’s Henry V? When plans fail, the leader gets all the blame, and even when he leads well, it’s usually others who benefit the most. The leader still has the pressure of maintaining and even building on any success.
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Persecution
Whether the persecution you and I face is great or small, Jesus understands. He was persecuted too. He was put to death because he was popular, his influence was growing, and his teachings didn’t fit the cultural narrative.
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Finding Things In God’s Word
Even though Jesus said, “seek and you will find,” it is possible to search the scriptures and not find eternal life.
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Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge
The apostle Paul made the point over and over in the book of First Corinthians that we should not be prideful about our knowledge. If I have knowledge but not love, “I am nothing,” (13:2). Love is much more important because it edifies, whereas knowledge puffs up (8:1). But is this to say that knowledge…
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O You Of Little Faith
Is a small faith okay or isn’t it? I’ve written in the past about how God can take faith as small as a mustard seed and make it grow (Matthew 17:20). We don’t have to be super strong before God will use us. On the other hand, four times in the book of Matthew, Jesus…
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Lists
We like lists of do’s and don’ts. If we can boil right and wrong down to a list of rules, we feel we have a better idea of where we stand and where we need to go.
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