Wrestling with God

Jacob & Esau | Genesis 25

SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi. (Genesis 25:11) And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. (Genesis 25:21) And the LORD said to her, …

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Wrestling with God

Introduction to Genesis 25-36

Genesis is the book of beginnings. The first eleven chapters reveal how the world and humanity began and fell into sin, and chapters twelve through twenty-four displayed how God began to enact His plan of global redemption through the family of one man, Abraham. God pulled Abraham from his family, took him to a foreign …

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Background on Titus

Author Though some secular scholars have sought to argue against it, Paul is clearly identified as the author in the first verse of the letter. Still, they posit that Titus along with the letters to Timothy & Philemon are too stylistically different from Paul’s other epistles to be genuine; therefore, they suggest that someone else …

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Introduction to Titus

Even though the word is never used in the letter, Titus is all about the church. Paul left Titus on the island of Crete for the purpose of organizing and establishing each city’s church, and his letter to Titus is an encouragement and guide for how that is to be done. Therefore, if we want …

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More Than Conquerors | Romans 8:31-39

More Than Conquerors Study Guide SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God. (Romans …

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To Laodicea: Be Zealous & Repent | Revelation 3:14-22

Seven Letters Week 8 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works: you are night cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:15-16) I counsel you to buy from me …

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To Philadelphia: Patiently Endure | Revelation 3:7-13

Seven Letters Week 7 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have kept my word and have not denied my name. (Revelation 3:8) Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, …

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To Sardis: Wake Up! | Revelation 3:1-6

Seven Letters Week 6 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works. You have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead. (Revelation 3:1) Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. (Revelation 3:2) Remember, …

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To Thyatira: Repent of False Teaching | Revelation 2:18-29

Seven Letters Week 5 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. (Revelation 2:19) Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. (Revelation 2:16) …

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To Pergamum: Hold Fast to Christ | Revelation 2:12-17

Seven Letters Week 4 SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. (Revelation 2:13) Therefore repent. If not, …

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