“Rome was considered the mighty nation. For God to send his son to Israel would be like people telling us God chose a small nation like Puerto Rico as his chosen nation today. God could certainly do this but it is likely that people would not be inclined to accept it.” -Terry Taylor
Category: Jessica’s Bible Study Blog
Acts 20
“Second, Eutychus fell asleep before he fell to his death. In my own experience, the average Christian teenager loses their exuberance and their passion for Christ long before they lose their purity.”
-http://www.everynation.org/pages/odb/december-blogs/dec-26-raising-eutychus-fr om-the-dead
On the Septuagint
“The translator of the book of Job abbreviated many of the long, windy speeches for his Hellenistic readership so that the book is one-sixth shorter in Greek.” -ESV Study Bible
Bible Illuminations: The Ottheinrich Bible
I was flipping through one of my library books today, “The Bible and its People” which has a lot of pictures of antique bibles, and one of the pictures caught my eye and I thought I’d google it so I could see if I could find a color picture of it. Well, one search leads to another which leads to another, and then I stumbled on a gold-mine, on Wikipedia, from the Ottheinrich Bible (or “Bibel” in German), a set of illustrations of Revelation, in beautiful full color, very detailed, from the 1500s (ie: old, public domain, not copyright…) exactly what I’d been looking for to go along with the Revelation bible study I’ve been working on. And then I found a site (in German) that is a “digital library” with scans of like every page from that bible (for some reason wikipedia only had the revelation images). Anyway, just for fun, here’s one of the images:
John’s Vision of Jesus among the 7 lampstands
Assorted Memory Verses & Thoughts
to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or imagine…to Him be the Glory forever! Amen (Eph 3:20-21)
Ever notice salt increases thirst? Being around Christians (salt of the earth) should increase thirst for living water (or wine of Jesus?)
Is the “spiritual fruit” in your life plastic fruit? Does it taste like fruit, or just appear as if you have fruit? -Mike Macintosh
Scripture artwork: http://www.heartlight.org/cgi/heartgalle
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments… -2 Cor 10:4-5
Heb 3:13…encourage one another daily, while it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
2Pe 2:9…the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation…
Heb 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin
Holy Holy God Are You! God of Glory, You’re so worthy, all the saints bow down. Everything you’ve done is Just and true… -Vineyard UK
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make NO PROVISION for the flesh to fulfill its lusts. -Romans 13:14
With leaven symbolizes with malice and wickedness. Without leaven symbolizes sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. 5:8
Psa 78:4 We will…tell…the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength, and His wondrous works He hath done
1Co 13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
A George-ism I need to remember more often…
“Don’t look at the size of the mountain, talk to the one who can move it.” -George Clerie
Reflections on Psalm 16:7
“I will bless the Lord who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night”
That kind of sounds like sometimes God speaks to us through dreams with instructions or counsel? Or does it have to do with God giving instruction during our “dark periods” and have nothing to do with a literal night? Interesting verse to meditate on.
Effect of Seeing God’s Power
Exodus 14:31 – Seeing God’s great power led to fearing the Lord and believing in the Lord.
seeing God’s power
->
fear of the Lord
->
believing God and his Messengers
An Interesting observation made by Jon Courson
“Jesus’ body was not spastic. Parts of His body were not going off in one direction or lurching off in another. So, too, the body of His church is meant to move in coordination. How? The same way our physical bodies are coordinated—by the body responding to impulses sent from the brain through the nervous system. Jesus is the Head (Eph. 1:22). The impulses that will guide us and direct us as a church will come from Him through the “nervous system” of the Holy Spirit. When we, the body, respond to Jesus through the leading of the Spirit, we will move in coordination and harmony.”
(relating to Commentary on Acts 6)
I was amused by this so I thought I’d share it
Its from illustrator Doug Jones:
