Category Archives: Inspirational

Place to post Christian devotionals, Scripture verses, and Bible study material.

For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 6 – Palm Sunday

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: Mark 11:1-11 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem was the fulfillment of a prophesy recorded in Zechariah 9:9 over five hundred years before the ride … Continue reading

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For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 5

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: John 12:20-33 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] As you read or listened to the words of Christ in this passage, could you imagine what it would have been like … Continue reading

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For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 4

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: John 3:14-21 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] In the passage of Scripture for this week, John makes reference to a story in Numbers 21:4-9. It is about venomous snakes … Continue reading

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For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 3

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: John 2:13-22 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] Are you surprised or uncomfortable with Jesus’ anger in this passage? Why or why not? What was it specifically about the seller’s … Continue reading

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For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 2

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: Mark 8:31-38 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] If Jesus had chosen not to take up the cross, would it have been disobedience of God’s calling and leading? Do you … Continue reading

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For Weekly Inspiration – A to F Week 1

This Week’s GOSPEL PASSAGE: Mark 1:9-15 Questions to Ponder [adapted from Ashes to Fire Adult Bible Study Guide] If Jesus came to preach about the kingdom of God being near, why is it that we still see sin and death … Continue reading

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Thoughts about Ash Wednesday

There are plenty of precedents for calling God’s people together for repentance, for fresh anoint­ing, and for renewal.  This is the focus of Ash Wednesday.  As we learn in the Scriptures, the trumpet sound of the prophet Joel, calling for … Continue reading

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Children of the Living God

Romans 9:20-33 (The Message) Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold … Continue reading

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