1 Peter 4:1 "...he...hath ceased from sin" Not that we are perfect or sinless after we accept Christ, but that we don't live for sin any longer. We live for Him. 4 "...they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you." I had a …
Month: May 2016
The Woodworker’s Shop
Jeremiah 18:1-3 "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels." I dreamed I went to a woodworker's shop. …
Bible Study Notes on 1 Peter 3 – 20160413
1 Peter 3:1 "...in subjection to your own husbands..." It amazes me how many people, especially women, have a problem with that phrase. I have put that phrase to women on questionnaires and asked them to share what it means to them. Most of the time I either receive no answer at all or some …
Bible Study Notes on 1 Peter 2 – 20160412
1 Peter 2:2 "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby" Paul touches on this in his letter to the Corinthians and chides them because they were not growing, still only feeding on the milk of the word. Everyone starts with milk, but you have to keep studying …
Bible Study Notes on 1 Peter 1 – 20160411
1 Peter 1:1 "...to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia" The last recorded words of Christ tell us to go, and as we are going, to make disciples of all nations. The Jewish church members had been telling those they came in contact with in Jerusalem about Christ. Now God is …
Bible Study Notes on Romans 15 & 16 – 20160407
Romans 15:24,28 "Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company...When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I …
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Bible Study Notes on Romans 14 – 20160402
Romans 14:3 "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him." We're big on talking about not harming a weaker brother, and rightly so. But here all are admonished to treat one another fairly, regardless of the side …
Black & White with Shades of Gray 