Living Room Study

Matthew 7

“Enter through the narrow gate.  For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.  How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.”  Matthew 7:13-14

A friend of mine is very wealthy. When I [...]

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Matthew 6

“So don’t worry, saying “What will we eat”, or “What will we drink?, or “What will we wear?”  For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.  [...]

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Matthew 5

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may show yourselves to be sons of your father in heaven.  For He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the [...]

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Matthew 4

“Jesus was going all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness among the people.”  Matthew 4:23

Before we moved to California, my family and I lived in suburban Chicago…the #2 least-churched city in America.  A person’s success in Chicago [...]

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Matthew 3

“In those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”  For he is the one spoken through the prophet Isaiah, who said: “A voice of one crying in the wilderness:  ‘Prepare the way for the Lord; make His paths straight!’”   [...]

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Matthew 2

“So Joseph got up, took the child and His mother and entered the land of Israel.  But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea, in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there.  And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee.  Then he went [...]

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Esther 8

“The city of Susa shouted and rejoiced, and the Jews celebrated with gladness, joy and honor.  In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, rejoicing and jubilation took place among the Jews.  There was a celebration and a holiday.  And many of the ethnic groups of the land [...]

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Esther 7

“Esther the queen answered, ‘If I have won your favor, king, and if it pleases the king, then what I ask be given me is my own life and the lives of my people.  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, exterminated.  If we had only been sold [...]

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Esther 6

“That night the king couldn’t sleep; so he ordered the records of the daily journal brought and they were read to the king.  It was found written that Mordkhai had told about Bigtana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers from the group in charge of the private entryways, who had conspired to assassinate [...]

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Esther 5

“On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the in the inner courtyard of the king’s palace, opposite the king’s hall.  The king was sitting on his royal throne in the king’s hall, across from the entrance to the hall.  When the king saw Esther the queen standing in [...]

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