John 9:1-12 1  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.  2  And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  3  Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.  4  We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.  5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”  6  Having said these thi

“Are you Satisfied” John 6:1-15 1  After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.  2  And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.  3  Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.  4  Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.  5  Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where

"Who Told You?" John 5:1-15 1  After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.  3  In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.  4  for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool, and stirred the water: whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he ha

"Even When It Doesn't Make Sense"  John 2:1-12 1  On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  2  Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.  3  When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”  4  And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”  5  His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6  Now there were six stone water

"Why Do You Laugh" Genesis 21:1-14 1  The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised.  2  And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.  3  Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. 4  And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.  5  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to h

"Righteous In God's Eyes" Genesis 15:1-21 1  After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”  2  But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  3  And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”  4  And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This ma

"I Want To Be With You" Genesis 9:8-17 8  Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,  9  “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,  10  and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.  11  I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again

"Walking" Genesis 6:9-22 9  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.  10  And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11  Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.  12  And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.  13  And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh,   for the earth i

"Waking, Walking, Working" Genesis 1:1-13 1   In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  2  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3  And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  4  And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.  5  God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was ev

“Unchanging God” Micah 5:1-15 1  Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek. 2  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. 3  Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of hi

"Do you Know God?" Psalm 146:1-10 1  Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 2  I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.  3  Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4  When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. 5  Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, 6  who made heaven and earth, the sea, and al

"Why You Were Created" Psalm 139:14 14   I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

"Nehemiah 10:35 -37" Nehemiah 10:35 -37(ESV) 35  We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord;  36  also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;  37  and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributio

"The Discipline of Worship" Nehemiah 8:1-12 1 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel.  2  So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.  3  And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until

I Have To Nehemiah 1:11-2:4 11  O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king. 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.  2  And the king sai

The Trap of Compromise Ezra 9:1-8 1 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.  2  For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that th

"Facing Opposition" Ezra 5:1-13 1 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.  2  Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them. 3  At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-b

Promise Keeper Ezra 1:1-11 1  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: 2  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.  3 Whoeve

Right in the Lord's Eyes 2 Chronicles 26:15 -16 15 In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 16 But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

King, Priest, Sacrificial Lamb 2 Chronicles 26:15 -16 15  In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. 16  But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.