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ARM Ministries's Blog – October 2012 Archive (6)

OLD AND NEW TREASURES





Scripture Reading: Matthew 13:52

“Every … disciple of the kingdom of heaven … brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”

—Matthew 13:52

All of us are called to be balanced Christians. The brief parable we are looking at today indicates the value of the Old Testament teachings and…

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Added by ARM Ministries on October 29, 2012 at 3:29am — No Comments

GIVE AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE

Scripture Reading: Luke 16:1-9

“Use worldly wealth to gain friends … so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.”

—Luke 16:9

In his parables, Jesus often uses controversial ideas and characters to gain the crowd’s attention. In this story a corrupt financial manager becomes a sort of hero. The manager has wasted his master’s resources. And when he is about to lose his job, he reduces the amounts owed by his master’s debtors, to gain their goodwill.…

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Added by ARM Ministries on October 26, 2012 at 1:39pm — No Comments

HEALTHY EYES NEEDED





Scripture Reading: Luke 12:13-21; Matthew 6:22-23

“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

—Luke 12:21



It has been said that the biggest obstacle to discipleship is possessions. However, I think the biggest opportunity for discipleship is also possessions. Materialism could be labeled a great sin of today’s world, but material blessings are also a great…
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Added by ARM Ministries on October 25, 2012 at 12:53pm — No Comments

YEAST IN THE KINGDOM?

Scripture Reading: Luke 13:20-21

“The kingdom of God … is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour.”

—Luke 13:20-21

Like the parable of the mustard seed, the parable of the yeast also points to something small that produces amazing results. But in Israel, yeast often represented sin and evil. Did Jesus intend to speak of yeast that way in this parable? Apparently.

Only bread without yeast could be used at Israel’s feasts. The smoke…

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Added by ARM Ministries on October 18, 2012 at 2:57pm — No Comments

BY ITSELF THE KINGDOM GROWS

Scripture Reading: Mark 4:26-29

“All by itself the soil produces grain …”

—Mark 4:28

Mark 4 contains three seed parables. The parable of the sower (vv. 2-20) promises that the seed will take hold in the life of believers. The parable of the mustard seed (vv. 30-32) describes how small beginnings can produce amazing results. And today’s reading, the parable of the seed growing secretly, pictures the growth of kingdom seed after its planting and before the…

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Added by ARM Ministries on October 15, 2012 at 12:18pm — No Comments

KINGDOM SEED

Scripture Reading: Mark 4:2-9

“Other seed fell on good soil. It … produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.”

—Mark 4:8

Christians often become discouraged when they ponder the loss of Christian values in some parts of the world today. Christianity seems to be…

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Added by ARM Ministries on October 14, 2012 at 10:21am — No Comments

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SUNDAY SCHOOL - July 11, 2021

John 8:39 - "They answered and said to Him, 'Abraham is our father.' Jesus said to them, 'If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.'"Abraham was an alien and a stranger on the earth. The goal of his life was to have a place in what God…Continue

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