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04.05.08My Bible Journey: Week of March 30, 2008photo credit: J. Mark Bertrand Deuteronomy 13 = A good warning for us today. We see among us all those preaching a different Gospel than the one Christ spoke. They are following a different god. Just because they look good and act friendly and normal, doesn't mean they are correct in their belief. 14:1 = This is in answer to both Egyptian and Canaanite practices. God wanted His people He had chosen to stand out among the people surrounding them. 14:3-21 = Another list of stuff we don't really worry about anymore? Why? Partly because of grace—we are no longer under the ...
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03.22.08My Bible Journey: Week of March 16, 2008Numbers 24:1 - "The Lord was determined to bless Israel." 24:9b - "Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you." 24:25-25 - Balaam prophesies Israel's future: a sceptre/star will rise among them, and they will crush all their enemies by the will of God. 25:1-9 - sometimes you have to take a spear to sin 25:16 - deceit is considered an assault 26:51 - "registered troops" now totals 601,730 26:52 - the numbering is how the land was parceled out 26:64 - "Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by ...
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03.15.08My Bible Journey: Week of March 9photo credit: size8jeans Numbers 11:25 = "this was the only time this happened"...interesting Numbers 11:26-29 = a good lesson for today's church leadership Numbers 11:33-35 = not a plague in the sense of disease, but death by gorging on animal meat after a diet of only manna—another example of sin being its own reward/punishment Numbers 12:3 = "Moses was more humble than any other person on earth." Numbers 12:6-8 = God had a very special relationship with Moses Numbers 12:11 = Aaron gets it right in his confession Numbers 13:3 = the spies were all leaders Numbers 13:16 = Joshua renamed from a generality to a specific Numbers ...
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03.14.08iLife: Study, part 2As promised, here's a (somewhat) quick run-down of how to go about doing a Bible study using internet resources. In the past, doing a study like this would have meant gathering numerous books, costing several hundreds of dollars. With the current availability of said resources for free on the internet, we Christ-followers have even less excuse for really getting into the word and wringing everything out of it we possibly can. Some basic resources for Bible study might include: A study Bible An exhaustive concordance A topical Bible A Bible dictionary A Bible handbook Commentaries A Bible Encyclopedia All of these can be found for free on the internet, and ...
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03.08.08My Bible Journey: Week of March 2photo credit: janellers Leviticus 26 = the results of obedience vs. the results of disobedience vs. the results of continuing disobedience vs. the results of not learning the lessons of disobedience vs. the results of remaining hostile toward God. But in the end there WILL be repentance. Numbers 1 = If you've never read Numbers, it's very appropriately named. Long story short, 603,550 men over age 20 of fighting ability escaped from Egypt. Add to this the estimate of women, children and aged men, plus the non-Israelites in train and the as yet to be numbered Levites, it is likely ...
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03.01.08My Bible Journey: Week of February 24photo credit: Alone... Leviticus 15 = Genital discharges and spit. What a way to start off a week of reading the Scripture. Leviticus 15:11 = Wash your hands! Leviticus 15:26-18 = no wonder we get so uptight about sex and sometimes view it as unclean Leviticus 16:2 = Thank you for giving us the ability to come to You now whenever we need/want/desire! Leviticus 15 vs. 16 = Physical cleanliness vs. spiritual cleanliness. Physical - a must for health and is an act. Spiritual - a must for holiness and though it is an act (of obedience) it is more an attitude (of submission). Leviticus ...
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02.12.08iLife: MeditationChrist-followers journey through their life on this side of heaven and sometimes wonder, "Is this all there is?" Emphatically, we can say "No!" In fact, we can say "no" regardless of where you are in your relationship with Christ. No matter if you are just starting out, are looking to rediscover your "first love," or are closer than you've ever been before in communion with you Savior, there's more. So much more. In a review of what's gone before in this series, consider these things. First, the best things in life are found in relationships—first and foremost in our relationship with ...
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02.11.08a personal liturgyWorship leaders, do you follow a liturgy in your church's tradition? If you don't, let me ask you to consider this: Discover for yourself, if only for creative planning purposes, a personal liturgy. How can something that is pre-planned and laid out like a liturgy help you with creativity? How many times have you found yourself dry with ideas? You've thought and prayed and done all you can to come up with something new and exciting only to fall short. How can that be? There's so much about God Almighty, so many deeds and attributes, how could you run short of something ...
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02.11.08Worship Confessional: February 10, 2008I'll make this short today, as I have a lot of other things needing my focus. My mind's going in about 40 different directions now, so I hope this is coherent enough for you. We started delving into the real meat of our iLife series yesterday, starting with a discipline that is mostly ignored or unknown in most Baptist circles: Meditation. Meditation is a little hard to plan for musically, you know? But, I think we did a good job of melding the concepts shared from the pulpit and lyrical lines of the songs. Key words like see and think and consider ...
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