Month: June 2014

June 30, 2014 – Matthew 10

Click here to read Matthew 10 on BibleGateway.com Today’s lesson, boys and girls, is on reading the whole Bible, rather than just our favorite verses. Case in point: Matthew 10. Jesus has many titles in the Bible: Emmanuel, Son of…

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June 26, 2014 – Matthew 6

Click here to read Matthew 6 on BibleGateway.com Have you ever watched one of those award ceremonies where actors are given awards for all their hard work of pretending to be someone one else for millions of dollars? Neither have…

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June 25, 2014 – Isaiah 57

Click here to read Isaiah 57 on BibleGateway.com All of us have probably played the trust game at one point or another.  This is the sadistic activity that comes around every once in a while at “team-building” retreats.  One person…

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June 24 – Psalm 119

Click here to read Psalm 119 on BibleGateway.com What is love, what does it have to do with it? Love is a difficult word for us as English speakers. Other languages, Greek for example, have multiple words for love. So,…

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June 23, 2014 – Matthew 3

Click here to read Matthew 3 on BibleGateway.com John the Baptist is one of the most intriguing characters in the whole Bible. From his conception, he had a special place in God’s plans.  One can even argue he was the…

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June 20, 2014 – Revelation 22

Click here to read Revelation 22 on BibleGateway.com What defines you? Is it what you believe or what you do? If I say “a heatlhy lifestyle is very important to me” yet I have a subscription to Oreo Weekly –…

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June 18, 2014 – Isaiah 50

Click here to read Isaiah 50 on BibleGateway.com For your enjoyment, I give you the best joke of Immanuel Kant: An Englishman at an Indian’s table in Surat saw a bottle of ale being opened, and all the beer, turned…

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June 17, 2014 – Deuteronomy 22

Click here to read Deuteronomy 22 on BibleGateway.com Back in the 60s and 70s in the US, there was a popular philosophy that said basically “as long as you don’t hurt someone, you can do whatever you want.” If you…

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June 16, 2014 – Isaiah 48

Click here to read Isaiah 48 on BibleGateway.com There’s an old saying (old in that I can’t remember where I first heard it, coupled with being too lazy to look it up) that says “most of us spend the week…

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June 11, 2014 – Isaiah 43

Click here to read Isaiah 43 on BibleGateway.com Why is it we like to add to the Bible? A few years ago, one of the more common phrases you would hear in sermons was the idea that “you will never…

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June 9, 2014 – Psalm 99

Click here to read Psalm 99 on BibleGateway.com Back in the day, every playground designed for children had the instrument of humiliation known as the See-Saw or TeeterTotter. Nothing says “hey, you’re a big fatty” like requiring four of your…

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June 1, 2014 – Isaiah 33

Click here to read Isaiah 33 on BibleGateway.com One of the big challenges of the post-modern Christian is to separate our understanding of the Bible from our culture.  Not that this is a new thing, of course. The ancient Romans…

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