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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Why are you angry?” the Lord asked him. (TLB) “Why the sulking? If you do well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it’s out to get you, you’ve got to master it.” (MSG) Gen 4:6 TLB©1971TyndaleHouseFoundation MSG©1993,2002,2018EPeterson
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Pharisee saw Jesus didn't wash to dine. Jesus saw his hypocrisy: “You Pharisees ... [clean] the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside ... are full of greed and wickedness! ... Don’t you realise that The One Who made the outside is The Maker of the inside as well? Luke 11:39-40 ©JBPhillips
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus stopped and said . . . , “What do you want me to do for you?” Matthew 20:32 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) Copyright © 2006 by Bible League International This question from Jesus to the blind was personal, just as He wants our relationship with Him to be personal.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Following my previous post, this children’s song came to mind, and I felt moved to slip it in amongst all the questions of God we have been considering. As children of the Almighty One, with childlike faith, may we also declare the Sovereignty of our Saviour God with singing and rejoicing! Enjoy!
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
… I work, and who will reverse it? Isaiah 43:13c NKJV Here’s the full verse 13 in the New Living Translation: “From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.” NLT Read Isaiah 43:10-15 The Message for further context.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? says the Lord God, and not that he should turn from his ways and live? Ezek18:23NKJV©1982TNelson  Ezek33:11... As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jesus knew what they were discussing “... Don’t you grasp what has happened? Don’t you understand? Are your hearts so resistant to what God is doing? Mark 8:17 Common English Bible CEB © 2011 Common Eng Bible Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful above things. So how do we yield to God?
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus said ... “Haven't you ever read what the Scriptures say? ‘The Stone Which the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all. This was done by the Lord; what a wonderful sight...!’ Matthew21:42GoodNewsTranslation® Today’sEnglishVersion 2ndEdition ©1992 AmrBibleSoc
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Matthew 5:47ab New Living Translation 47 If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
46 Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you?  Matthew 5:46a Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? Mark 4:21 NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® In like vein, Jesus said that a city on a hill cannot be hidden. Like Jesus, we are called to be a light in the world.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other. ... become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Mark9:50 & Phil2:15 NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 BiblicaInc®
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Jesus asked this preaching to the crowds after His Sermon on the Mount, The Beatitudes. Just before, He had said that a tree is known by its fruit . . . “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Luke 6:46 New International Version®, NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.®
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jesus asked those who paraded themselves as religious, yet did not recognise God standing before them: How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God? Jn 5:44 NewInternationalVerGrandRapids:Zondervan, 1996, c1984.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal And compare Me, that we should be alike? Isaiah 46:5 NKJV New King James Version® © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.  Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—Majestic in Holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? Exodus 15:11 NKJV
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
7 don’t you think that God will surely give justice to His people who plead with Him day and night? 8 Yes! He will answer them quickly! But the question is: When I, the Messiah, return, how many will I find who have faith and are praying?” Luke 18:7-8 TheLivingBible © 1971 Tyndale House Foundation
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garment, He reclined at the table again. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” He asked them. John 13:12b The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In Jerusalem, at the pool of Beth-zatha, Jesus saw a man, ill for 38 years, and, knowing that, asked him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ See John 5:2-6 New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, © 1989, 1995 Division of Christian Education ‒ National Council ‒ Churches of Christ ‒ USA
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Like Peter, we often fall short, so I’m repeating this question for the third time, and answering three times as well. Please join me . . . I love You, Jesus! I love You, Lord and King! Yes, I love You, my Precious Saviour and Great High Priest! I am Yours! Your Will be done. Send me . . .
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Examining this question is so important to us as believers that we’ll consider it a second time today. Yesterday, we applied it to Peter’s situation as well as to ourselves. Today, we return to Peter to meditate on the long term results that his restoration had on the rest of his life.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
 . . .  “Do you love Me?” . . . . John 21:17 This question is from the passage known as the restoration of Peter. After his threefold denial of Jesus after His arrest, the Resurrected Christ invites Peter to confess his love for Him three times.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem saw the disciples eating with unwashed hands and asked Jesus why they broke the tradition of the elders. (See vv1-2) Jesus replied, “And why do you break the Command of God for the sake of your tradition? Matt 15:3 NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica Inc.®
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
55 … My Flesh is Food indeed... My Blood is Drink indeed. 56 He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood abides in Me, and I in him. ... 61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? John 6:55-57 & 61 NKJV® © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
. . . Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said ... “Peace to you.” 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? Luke 24:36b-38 NewKingJamesVersion® ©1982 T Nelson.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We've been looking at questions in the Holy Bible God asked and still asks, if we listen to Him. Today we reflect on the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The question comes from angels, messengers of God, women saw at the tomb Jesus was buried in after His death by crucifixion: (Luke 24:1-8)
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?” Luke 23:31 NKJV New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.  Jesus said this to the woman mourning Him on His way to Calvary, Simon of Cyrene carrying His cross for Him.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter His Glory?” Luke 24:26 ... despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Isaiah 53:3 “If the world hates you, ... it hated Me first.” John 15:18 NewINT'LVersion® ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 BiblicaInc®
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" comes from Psalm 22, written centuries before it was quoted by Jesus on the cross, as recorded in Mark 15:34 and Matthew 27:46 Psalm 22:1 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning?
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
… Saul … breathing threats and murder against the disciples ... went to the high priest 2 … for letters ... so ... if he found any who belonged to the Way … he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ... 3 … approaching Damascus, … a light from heaven flashed … ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Mark 14:32-38, records Christ’s prayer and anguish in Gethsemane when He was betrayed, and the disciples’ sleepiness. 34 … “Remain ... keep watch.” 35 … He ... prayed ... if ... possible, the hour might pass Him by … 37 ... to the disciples, … He said … “Could you not keep watch for one hour?”
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
With them, the mother of James and John came to ask Jesus to promise, in His Kingdom, one son would sit on His Left, the other on His Right. Their request led to Jesus asking: “Can you drink the cup of suffering I am going to drink?” Matthew 20:22b NIRV © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 Biblica, Inc.®.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
18 … men came, carrying ... a man who was paralyzed … tried to bring him …. 19 … could not find a way … went up on the roof and lowered him on the stretcher through the roof … before Jesus. 20 Seeing their faith He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Matthew 18:12 Christian Standard Bible 12 What do you think? If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray? The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
3 “And why do you see the splinter (RGT) in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? (NRSVA) Matt 7:3 RevisedGenevaTranslation ©2019,2024 FiveTalents Audio / NewRevisedStandardVersionBible: Anglicised © 1989, 1995 DivisionofChristianEduc - Nat.Council-ChurchesofChrist-USA
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
 … He went into their synagogue. 10 A man was there whose hand was withered…. they asked Jesus, “Is it lawful ... to heal on the Sabbath?” … so that they might accuse Him …. 11 He said … “who, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Matthew 6:27 Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy you? Isaiah 55:2a New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.®.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Do you still not understand? Remember the five loaves of bread that fed the 5000 people and the many baskets you filled with the bread that was left? Matt 16:9 Easy-to-Read Version ERV ©2006 Bible League Int Jesus spoke of spiritual things. The disciples focused on earthly things . . .
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
48 Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him.”  49 Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him. 50 But Jesus said to him, “Friend, why have you come?” Matt 26:48-50 New King James Version®. © 1982 - Thomas Nelson
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
2 He led me around the valley. ... there were very many bones, ... very dry. 3 He said ... “Son of man, can these bones live?” ... “O Lord God, only You know that.” 4 He said ... “Speak in My name over these bones. Say ... ‘O dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord.’
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
God set eternity in our hearts. Let's spend another day considering the soul's importance. 26 … what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? Matthew 16:26 Holy Bible, NewLivingTranslation, © 1996, 2004, 2015 TyndaleHouseFoundation.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What will it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he loses his own soul? Or, what can a man give to redeem his soul? Matthew 16:26 New Matthew Bible (NMB) Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Magnusson (Davis). Includes emendations to February 2022.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? . . . . Matthew 16:26a New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So Jesus asked the twelve apostles, “Do you want to leave Me too?” John 6:67 GOD’S WORD Translation (GW) Copyright © 1995, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020 by God’s Word to the Nations Mission Society.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
‘A terrific storm came up suddenly ... about to capsize ... woke Jesus: “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”’ ... ‘He told the wind, “Silence!” and the waves, “Quiet down!” . . . The lake became smooth as glass. ... He said to His disciples, “Why can’t you trust Me?” Reference in comment
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Then He said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?” But they were amazed and afraid, and said to one another, “Who is this Man? He gives orders to the winds and waves, and they obey Him!” Luke 8:25 Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
... a furious storm came up on the lake, . . . waves swept over the boat ... Jesus was sleeping. The disciples ... woke Him, ... “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” ... “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” ... He got up ... rebuked the winds and the waves ... it was completely calm.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
[Jesus] asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” 14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 He said to them, “But Who do you say that I am?” Matthew1 6:13b-15 New King James Version® © 1982 T Nelson.
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, . . . “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said . . . “The Son of David.” [Jesus] to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ . . . If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
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Altar Sparrow @judyc2401.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
11 And the Word of the Lord came to me saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My Word.” Jeremiah 1:11-12 New Life Version NLV Copyright © 1969, 2003 Barbour Publishing, Inc.
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