Sometimes people make bad decisions. We all do this but one wrong decision should not necessitate a lifetime of poor choices or actions.
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Day 119 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Chronicles 1:1-2:55 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Through Christ's death, you are redeemed from sin and death, raised to an imperishable life you cannot yet perceive in yourselves except through faith.
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We do not have to win any battles, but only to keep the victory that has already been won, by holding onto faith in Christ and his cross.
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Be sure that your commitments depend upon God’s promises, power, and faithfulness, instead of your own. Be doubly certain that you do not imagine keeping your promises is the way to salvation.
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Day 118 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 23:1–25:30 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Day 117 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 20:1–22:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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To keep company with the "weak Christ" is the highest wisdom on earth, and a second is like it, to bear with his weak followers, the church.
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Religious acting can take the form of doing worship, that is, not worshiping at all. This often takes the form of a ritual that does not come from the heart.
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Unbelief is the greatest sin there is, for it cares not for God or at least, cares little for him who is to be loved with one's whole heart and entire being.
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 18:1–19:37 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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The Word of God must be proclaimed with clarity, putting useless arguments aside in favor of the gospel. The best way to accomplish this is to cut a straight path through the Scripture.
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The true church is not known by its government or its name but because it is known by its Shepherd and knows him, having faith in him alone.
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Day 116 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 15:1–17:41 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Watch your step. When going before God in worship and prayer, we must be very careful. It is easy to walk into false doctrine, hypocrisy, and useless rituals.
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Day 115 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 12:1–14:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Everyone who believes in Christ overcomes the world through faith. There is no need to leave the world in order to do so. There is no need for us to go to additional lengths in order to be forgiven.
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Scripture teaches that we cannot be saved by our own works, but through hearing and believing by the power of his Spirit that Jesus is the Christ .
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Day 114 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 9:1–11:20 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Jesus saw Matthew, a tax collector, and told him to follow: to be his disciple. How would there have been perfection if Matthew continued to sit there?
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There is a great Day coming when we will be raised bodily from the dead, but in the meantime, we are being raised spiritually into a better existence.
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Christ cannot remain in death — although he may suffer death by reason of his human nature — yet he must of his own power rise from the dead.
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Day 113 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 6:1–8:29 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Are you willing to follow Jesus? If it means you would lose the civil right to buy and sell, to make a living, to provide for your family, would you still follow Jesus?
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The world, seeing no wrong with itself, does not receive one part of Christ's word, reproval, and so, seeing no need of it, cannot receive his grace.
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Day 112 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 4:1–5:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Having no bank account does not aid the spirit, though it may destroy the spirit if one takes pride in the so-called accomplishment of giving up money and property.
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Day 111 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 2 Kings 1:1–3:27 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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I have known people who refused to work on Sunday. Some employers understood; others did not. I heard of one man who would not work on the Lord’s Day and as a result, lost his job.
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Christ is the righteousness of Christians before God, going to the Father, that is, suffering and rising for us, and thereby reconciling us to the Father.
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Day 110 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 21:1–22:53 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God does not command certain pietistic practices of giving up property, friends, family, food, and clothing. Indeed, Jesus tells us to not be anxious about such things.
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The role of the pastor or shepherd is to feed the sheep, and to protect them from all evil, which begins and ends with proper feeding from the Word.
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Day 109 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 18:1–20:43 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Be careful that what you hear from the pulpit is the sure Word of God instead of those doctrines that suit a pastor's or denomination's agenda.
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We must not forsake the gospel, even if it means loss of property, family, or even life. What is it that keeps you from following Jesus?
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Day 108 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 15:1–17:24 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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God’s commandments forbid the forsaking of parents. Yet in this teaching of Jesus about leaving one’s family — even children — for him, it is clear that Jesus is using hyperbole to make his point.
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A Bible study about the revelation of the Son of Man and his letters to the seven churches of Asia Minor
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A nine-session Bible study of the Beatitudes of Jesus
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We are not to trifle with the Scriptures, else there would then be no reliable and permanent foundation whereon the conscience may rely.
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Day 107 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 12:1–14:31 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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Does our virtuous lifestyle add anything to faith? To be sure, we are to furnish our faith with virtue, knowledge, self-control, endurance, godliness, and brotherly and godly love.
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Only devout, childlike people may grasp and understand the Bible, those who say by God's grace that because he has said it, then they do believe it.
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Day 106 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 10:1–11:43 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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It is not enough to know the historical fact of Jesus, but to also know that he calls us dear brothers, infusing his own righteousness and glory into us who believe.
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We are not justified before God because of a particular lifestyle, no matter how holy or special it may seem. God is able to make a child holy while that child, as yet, has no occupation.
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Day 105 of Read the Bible in a Year: Read 1 Kings 8:1–9:28 in your favorite translation, and solve today's Word Search and jigsaw from today's Scripture.
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