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The 12 baskets would have referred to the 12 tribes of Israel. The 7 baskets (from the feeding of the 4000) referred to the Gentiles (Deut. 7:1 and a couple...
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The no 5 signifies grace in the Bible! Jesus came to save us and deliver us from our destruction. He was/is the Face of God on earth--in person! God's grace...
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Great answer. The narrow gate urban legend story has never made much sense. Why would anyone try to get a camel through a gate that Jesus said was impossible...
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I agree James. Counseling is for people who aren't sure they want to get married, in my opinion. My parents were married for over sixty years. It ended when...
1 Kings 9:1-9 New International Version (NIV) The Lord Appears to Solomon 9 When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord and the royal palace,...
I like the late Warren Wiersbe's comments about praying in the Spirit. The Bible formula is that we pray to the Father, through the Son, and in the Spirit....
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Billye, you have nailed it! "...give an answer to those who ASK you..." Not every Tom Dick or Harry you meet walking down the street. Remember "For the...
9 When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. 10 She went and told those...
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I like best your references, Tim, to the longer passages to memorize as a child: Matthew 5:1-12; 6:7-15; 1 Corinthians 13; Exodus 20:1-17. I started "young,"...
Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun; Deuteronomy 33: 26; Isaiah 44:2). Jeshurun is a name used poetically for Israel Deuteronomy 32:15; Deuteronomy 33:5 Deuteronomy...
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Also, your reference in Wikipedia includes Jeshurun (Hebrew: יְשֻׁרוּן Yəšurūn; also Jesurun [1] or Yeshurun) is a poetic name for Israel used in the Hebrew...
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Colossians 2:14, "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his...
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I think there are two things we can learn from this. The first is that God provides abundantly - the leftover fragments filling twelve baskets exceeded the...
Although the Bible mentions weddings (as in John 2:1-11), and speaks of conduct and attitudes that a husband and wife should practice toward each other...
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What does the Bible say about empathy?
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Why did God rest on the seventh day of creation?
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Do Proverbs 26:4 and 26:5 contradict? How can both verses be true?
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Why lift hands to praise the Lord? (Psalm 134:2)
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If God knew that Satan would rebel and Adam and Eve would sin, why did He create them?
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Thank you, Ken, for this wonderful and practical illustration and correlation to the direction of reading Hebrew and other languages!
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Christians, When God grants a believer eternal life that believer is sealed by the Holy Spirit for eternity, not just until the believer sins again (Eph...
This is a contentious topic, maybe even as contentious as some of the other major controversies. It will break up churches, break up whole denominations, and...
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We are all weak in the flesh. First John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. It is the sin in our lives that...
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Colossians 2:14, "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his...
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At a funeral someone, or maybe a couple of people deliver a eulogy. Eulogy simply means "kind words spoken." I don't think a funeral is the right setting for...
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What does the bible say about being born gay?
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Where should one start if one is encouraging his/her young child to memorize long passages of scripture?
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Well stated.
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Just a thought - men wear skirts in Scotland, France and Greece.
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I cannot say where I have seen a clearer, more measured response on this topic. Thank you.
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Why did God let my house burn down in a fire?
Lifting of the hands would be done as an act of reaching in the direction of God's abode in heaven as a gesture either of appeal for His help in times of...
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Much of what we say about this young man is speculation. I suggest that the young man who fled naked is the same young man that surprised the women at the...
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.
Psalms 134:2
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Anger is murder in the heart; lust is adultery in the heart. The person who says that he “lives by the Sermon on the Mount” may not realize that the Sermon...
First, Jesus didn't say "it's better to lose an eye than to sin due to an eye." He said 'it would be better to enter life maimed than to lose your soul.' We...
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What does the Bible say about illegal immigration?
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Are angels male or female?
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