Lk.17:15-19 – Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice, and he fell on his face at His feet, giving thanks to Him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they? …
Rom.10:8,9 – But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; Paul …
Acts 2:36-38 – Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Then Peter …
Matt.3:5 – Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins. John the Baptist, the last of the Old Testament prophets, was also the greatest of all the prophets. Apparently the …
For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. (Romans 6:4 NLT) When I was a child, I loved to read about the adventures of Tom Sawyer. One of the stories …
Jn.1:16 – For of His fullness we have all received… I sometimes read something in the Bible so often that I can lose the sense of wonder and awe that the passage describes. This short verse can easily be passed over but a further look at what it contains can literally take your breath away. …
Lk.5:23,24 – Which is easier, to say: ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, get up, and pick up your …
Eph.4:22-24 – that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, which in the likeness …
Isa.54:2 – Enlarge the place of your tent;Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not spare them;Lengthen your ropesAnd strengthen your pegs. All of us know we need to grow or expand our spiritual capacity. Dick Mills used to describe this as spiritual enlargement. The question is how do I enlarge myself spiritually. One …
1 Peter 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, For you and I to talk about the resurrection is one thing but for …
