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Why a blog? That’s the question I asked myself. I guess, for starters, because I was writing these things anyway. Why not store them somewhere a little more permanent than my email sent folder? Secondly because I thought this would be easier than editing and emailing them, especially since I’m fairly certain more than half…
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Matthew 11:4-6 4 Jesus answered them, “Go, report to John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the gospel is preached to the poor. 6 Blessed is the one who does not take offense at…
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Matthew 11:1-3 After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he moved on from there to teach and preach in their towns. 2 While John was in prison, he heard about the things Christ was doing. He sent two of his disciples 3 to ask him, “Are you the Coming One or should we wait…
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Romans 11:21-24 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you. 22 So take note of God’s kindness and his severity: severity on those who have fallen, but God’s kindness on you—if you remain in his kindness; otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do…
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Romans 11:16-20 16 If the part offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you—a wild olive branch—were grafted in among them and share in the rich sap from the root of…
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Romans 11:13-15 13 I am speaking to you Gentiles. For as long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I am going to speak highly of my ministry. 14 Perhaps I may make my own people jealous, and so save some of them. 15 For if their rejection meant the reconciliation of the world,…
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Romans 11:9-12 9 And David says: Let their table be a trap and a net, and a snare and a retribution for them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and let their backs be always bent.[f] 11 So I ask, “Did they stumble in order to fall permanently?” Absolutely not!…
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Romans 11:5-8 5 So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.[c] 6 Now if it is by grace, then it is not the result of works—otherwise grace would no longer be grace.[d] 7 What then? Israel did not receive what it was striving to get. The elect…
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Romans 11:1-4 So I say, did God reject his people? Absolutely not! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people whom he foreknew—or don’t you know what Scripture says about Elijah, how he was pleading with God against Israel: 3 “Lord,…
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Isaiah 23:17-18 17 At the end of the seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will go back to collecting wages, to selling herself to all the kingdoms of the world, to everyone on the surface of the earth. 18 But this time her merchandise and her wages will be dedicated to the…
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Isaiah 23:13-16 13 (Compare it to the land of the Chaldeans—this people who have become nothing. It was the Assyrians who made it into a dwelling for wild animals from the desert. They raised up siege towers, tore down citadels, and made it a ruin.) 14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish, because your stronghold is…