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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: Psalm 145:8-21 18 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. “The LORD is near to all who call on him….” But the verse doesn’t stop there. It goes on to add a qualifier: “to all who call on him in truth.” The question we might ask…
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Read: 1 Peter 1:3-5 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade._ In the Bible study I led last…
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Read: Romans 5:1-11 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This is the good news that many religious people either do not get or simply ignore. Why do I say that? Well, most professing Christians I met think that by doing good they can make themselves…
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Read: Exodus 20:1-17 1 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Many professing Christians think that if they observe the Ten Commandments then, when they die, at the “Pearly Gates” St. Peter will let them enter heaven. To them obeying the…
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Read: Philippians 2:12-18 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. As part of the community of believers, we are “the light…
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Read: Psalm 86 1 Hear me, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. 4 Bring joy to your servant, Lord, for I put…
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Read: 1 John 1:1-10 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete. 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God…
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Read: Romans 5:12-19 12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned…. 15 But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the…
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