Jump Start # 1028
Jump Start # 1028 Hebrews 12:1 “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” Our verse today is one of those great passages […]
Jump Start # 1027
Jump Start # 1027 Romans 14:2 “One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.” Romans 14—here we go! This chapter has been the center of much controversy. Volumes and volumes have been written about Romans 14, analyzing every word in detail and grasping for the […]
Jump Start # 1026
Jump Start # 1026 Isaiah 45:1 “Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed.” Cyrus—the Lord’s anointed? Cyrus– a foreign king? Cyrus—the one who defeated the Babylonians? Cyrus-His messiah? This verse, these eight words, reveal three powerful principles about the Lord. First, the background. Isaiah, along with Jeremiah and Daniel, were contemporaries who prophesied […]
Jump Start # 1025
Jump Start # 1025 Matthew 23:8 “But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.” Our passage comes from the beginning section of teachings concerning the shallow and empty faith that the Pharisees maintained. It was a religion of show and not substance. It was a religion that […]
Jump Start # 1024
Jump Start # 1024 Hebrews 4:2 “For indeed we had good news preached to us, just as they also; but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard.” Our verse today recognizes the value of the preached word. Preaching is God’s idea. That’s […]