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Click the button below and then hit the gray 'Download a copy' button to download a PDF handout which walks you through seeing how Psalm 27 is prophetic of Jesus, and how it can apply to your own life. Psalm 27 PDF
Vocation
DWYL As-Long-As-Your’re-Happy . . . Follow-Your-Heart . . . Be-True-To-Yourself . . . Believe-In-Yourself . . . Live-Your-Truth . . . Be-Your-Best-Self . . . Do-What-You-Love — the aphorisms of our day are elegant. They sound like beautiful advice. They’re certainly enticing. Who wouldn’t want to be their best self? Who wouldn’t want to do what they love? Who wouldn’t want what makes them
Examen
Psalm 23 (NLT, alt.) Place your first name in each blank: A psalm of ___________. 1 Yahweh is ___________’s shepherd; ___________ has all that ___________ needs. 2 He lets ___________ rest in green meadows; He leads ___________ beside peaceful streams. 3 He renews ___________’s strength. He guides ___________ along right paths, bringing honor to His name.
Examen
Here is a list of 10 things that suffering achieves, followed by a series of Bible (ESV) passages and examen questions for each item, arranged as stations to be used in the context of a solemn Good Friday liturgy. I distilled this list based on word studies of the following
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Examining Ourselves Trust/Faith • Like Joshua, do I trust the Triune God to fulfill — either in this mortal life or in my resurrected life — his good promises and good reign in my life? • What is one area in my life where I am tempted to not fully trust God? • Our
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C.I.A. Bible Study C = Clarification What does the historical document tell us about the Triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), or about ourselves (humanity)? I = Implication How am I implicated? What am I going to do about the clarifying insight about God or about myself? A = Application With
Dramatization
Here's a 1-pager for reading an excerpt of John 4 with three voice parts, drawn from the ESV.
Emmaus
Intertextual Readings from 2nd Samuel and the New Testament on David and the Son of David with Examen for Good Friday Scriptures are ESV unless otherwise noted. 1st Station — The Anointed Blesses the Lame 2nd Samuel chapter 5 (NLT) — Jerusalem’s ‘blind’ and ‘lame’ arrogant pagans 6 David then led
Translation
When it comes to looking for a functional/dynamic equivalent translation of the "love" chapter — perhaps for reading at a wedding where lots of Nones/Remixed may be in attendance — the 1972 J. B. Phillips version is actually quite good but I do have several concerns listed here,
creed
This is a selection of verses from Ezekiel chapters 3, 5, 7, 16, 33, 34, 36, based on the NLT and ESV, arranged as a responsive confession of faith. God says: If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,’ but you fail to deliver the
creed
Here's my translation Deuteronomy 6:4 and some key verses from 1 Corinthians chapters 8 and 12, arranged into a responsive confession of faith. Parts of my translation are informed by or drawing upon the Names of God Bible and the NLT. Listen: There is only one Yahweh
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At the men's Bible study last week, Bob asked whether there's a precedent for multiple angels/heavenly host appearing in the biblical record besides the announcement to the shepherds in Luke 2.13 and in the book of Revelation. It is an intriguing question: Do we