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1. What are some things that you love or care about a lot? 2. How can we show God that we love Him? 3. Why should we put God first in our lives?

Many Christians, including myself, see it as one that reveals God's redemptive plan for humanity. This point of view helps us grasp how the Old Testament's promises are fulfilled in the New Testament through Christ. What say you? Quote

Link to the passage: Bible Gateway passage: Proverbs 1:20-33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition The second half of the opening chapter of Proverbs presents an interesting bit of imagery. We have Wisdom in the streets, chiding people for failing to listen to and follow her. She also...

About time we got these going again. The prophet Obadiah was, oddly for an Old Testament prophet, a man of relatively few words. His book is a whole 1 chapter of 21 (rather long) lines. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Obadiah+1&version=NRSV Reading through some commentaries, and...

Welcome to BPotW! (Bible Passage of the Week) This is, I hope, the beginning of something new for me and this place. It is fairly simple. I (or someone else if they like) drops a Bible passage they are interested. Preferably, it will be a who story or chapter or something, not just a line or...

This is kind of coming out of being part of the bible study threads that Paradox3 is running, but it's kind of a separate thing. I've also been re-reading the chapter on the Gospels from Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg. The first three gospels, the synoptic gospels...

Looking for a spiritual practice? Interested exploring Mark's gospel? Please join me for another look at Mark. Starting tomorrow, I will be reading a chapter per day and posting my thoughts. From each chapter, I will select a verse or a phrase which jumps out at me. Sometimes it will be a verse...

Jesus had given the early Church prophecy, by which missionaries were able to predict future events. The prophecy of the Bible's book belongs to that form of predicting the future which is known as apocalypsis. In which the future is shown to the seer in visions. Thus we have here a history of...

"Jesus answered, and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to thee, but a man be born again, he may not see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith to him, How may a man be born, when he is old? whether he may enter again into his mother's womb, and be born again? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to...

Church blesses assault weapons because ‘returning Christ’ will pack an AR-15 :eek: Okay, it is an offshoot of The Moonies but still...:rolleyes: What's the term again for reading into the Bible? The opposite of exegesis? Because this is that on steroids. Anyone else seen any laughable or...