Psalms 42:1 – 2 (NASB) As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? Isaiah 55:1 – 2 (ESV) “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who […]

Bible Study and Growth Tips, pt.3 Daily Study Tips Read aloud Read multiple times Read different translations Follow the margin references Write the scriptures out long hand (or type them) Keep a notebook handy and a dictionary/concordance Try to memorize certain verses Look up words you don’t know (and some you do know) Pray and […]

Bible Study and Growth Tips, pt.2 Get a good reference Bible or two Use the margin and bottom of page references Follow the references (helps interpret, define and confirm) Recommendations: KJV, NASB, NLT, ESV, etc. (e.g. Zondervan, Thompson Chain, Ryrie, Holman, Internet Bibles) 2 Timothy 2:15 (NLT) 15Work hard so you can present yourself to […]

Bible Study and Growth Tips, pt.1 How to increase retention: Read and re-read often Take your time; read slowly (word by word) Use more senses – sight, hearing and touch. Ezra 7:10 (KJV) 10For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel […]

Hebrews 2:17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. Abigail’s propitiation saves the day. David thanks Abigail for staying his hand and repents of his […]

1 Samuel 25 18 Abigail wasted no time. She quickly gathered 200 loaves of bread, two wineskins full of wine, five sheep that had been slaughtered, nearly a bushel£ of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 fig cakes. She packed them on donkeys 19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead. I […]

1 Samuel 25:2 – 38 (NLT) 2There was a wealthy man from Maon who owned property near the town of Carmel. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and it was sheep-shearing time. 3This man’s name was Nabal, and his wife, Abigail, was a sensible and beautiful woman. But Nabal, a descendant of Caleb, was […]

Faithful and unfaithful servants The talents represent opportunities to use our abilities. If five talents were given to a person with minimal ability, he would be destroyed by the heavy responsibility. But if only one talent were given to a man of great ability, he would be disgraced and degraded. God assigns work and opportunity […]

The Parable of the Talents Matthew 25:14 – 30 (ESV) 14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. […]

Deuteronomy 29:29 (KJV) 29The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have […]