Posted on July 23, 2009 by mattdabbs
I left out the articles, conjunctions, etc to help the main themes of Romans 8 stand out better.
Here are some of the Greek wordles posted on the blog in the past:
John 3
John 1:1-18
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Posted on July 20, 2009 by mattdabbs
I love the book of Acts. It is action packed and so inspiring on how driven those men were to do the will of God. I love that we get so much great information from it on the church, church leadership, fellowship, giving, and all kinds of wonderful examples that we can follow today. As [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2009 by mattdabbs
I don’t have any research to back this up but I do have a theory. I don’t know about the young people you know, especially the young adults. But one thing I have observed over and over again is that if people come to the place you worship on Sunday morning and they can easily [...]
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Posted on April 9, 2009 by mattdabbs
The problem I run across the most in the letters of the New Testament seems to be unity in the early church. The newly established and multi-racial church of the first century really struggled with overcoming social, religious, and ethnic boundary markers in order to have full unity and acceptance of one another.
Why is this [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by mattdabbs
21 of 35 instances of the word “spirit” in Romans occur in chapter 8. Some have taught that the Holy Spirit is not active today. There are two extremes that have caused a rejection of the Spirit’s operating in the life of the believer today. The first extreme are those who have made a big [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2008 by mattdabbs
Who is Paul addressing here?
As I read this chapter I cannot help but think Paul is writing to Gentile Christians within the Roman church who have been in sin and yet condemn their fellow Christians for the very acts they themselves are doing unashamedly. I just don’t see how Paul would be writing to people [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2008 by mattdabbs
In Mark and in the other synoptic Gospels, a large portion of Jesus’ ministry is spent in Galilee. The Galilean section of Mark spans 1:14-8:27 ending at the hinge of the Gospel with Peter’s confession and the journey toward the end (Jerusalem and the events that will unfold there). This is significantly different from John’s [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by mattdabbs
Mark begins his Gospel by laying out a series of witnesses who testify to Jesus’ true identity:
The first witness is Mark himself who tells the reader who Jesus really is, “the Son of God.” That title bookends the Gospel of Mark as it will not be said by another human in the Gospel until the [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2008 by mattdabbs
When the woman at the well ran to town to tell about the man who told her “everything [she] ever did,” she brought back a crowd of people Jesus referred to as a field ripe for harvest (John 4:35-39). The harvest was an important component of ancient life. The need for harvest was the reason [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by mattdabbs
“Rabbi, We know that you are a teacher who has come from God.
For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
From the title of this post you probably already know who said this. It was not one of Jesus’ disciples (at least not yet!-19:39? ). It is not [...]
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