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Category: G.O.T. Our Daily Bread?
“Sometimes, when I read the ODB, I feel that something important about the Scripture text should be said. That’s why I’m doing this…hopefully daily!” -From me to a pastor friend who liked G.O.T. ODB?
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Read 2 Peter 3:10-13 A Discover Magazine article has a list of “20 Ways the World Could End.” The Bible has only one. And it declares it in a matter-of-fact way: “The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare”…
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Mark 1:9-11 (NIV) 9 At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10 Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love;…
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Read: James 4:13-17 The world around has been telling us that if we do the “right” steps–and they usually exclude knowing the will of God–then we can do whatever we want and we can be whatever we choose to become. But in our Scripture text today, there is a reminder to remember, an advice to prize,…
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We do not take our health for granted. During the holidays, some of us ate more and exercised less. Perhaps now we’re trying to reverse that. But there is another area of our life that we should even be more concerned about.
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Read: Luke 6:27-36 The second day of 2012 is like coming down from a mountain-top experience. There’s the messy kitchen to clean up and laundry to do. Or, worse for some, going back to a job they hate and working with people they don’t like very much. But such is life. However, instead of just living…
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Read: Acts 20:22-32 22 “And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. 23 I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. 24 However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race…
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Read: Colossians 3:12-17 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in…
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Read: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. Everything that this guy (“son of David, king in Jerusalem,” 1:1) said in this passage–indeed in all of Ecclesiastes–should be read in view of his…
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Read: Matthew 1:18-25 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). “If God said it, it’s gonna happen.” I heard that, or something like that, many times. It gives you the…
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Read: 1 Kings 3:1-9 7 “Now, LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 8 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. 9 So give…
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Read: 1 Corthians 13 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. The greatest is love. We know that. Well, sort of. If we really know and are convinced that love is the greatest of all God’s gifts, then our life should be profoundly touched, obviously characterized, and…
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Read: 1 Corinthians 11:23-34 The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood;…
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Read: Psalm 37:1-11 1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Sometimes we wonder why “those who are evil” prosper instead of those who are good. We can probably explain it in terms of…
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