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Message In A Minute: The Right Question

Your happiness in life has a lot to do with which one of these questions is more important to you.

What do people think of me?

Who has God made me to be?

If you are like me, you’ve spent too much time worrying about what people think of you. Sure it’s important to be a good person and earn respect. But there are some people who will go out of their way to misunderstand you. You can’t please everyone.

Within reason, we should work to have a good reputation. However, we can’t let small opinions from small minds derail us from big goals.

Recently, I’ve dedicated myself to being who I believe God made me to be. Finding out what talents I’ve neglected in the past, getting rid of negative attitudes, and concentrating on doing what I can do to bless others. It’s simple, but it’s not easy.

My natural inclination is to care too much what people think. Some of you lean the other way. You may be excessively proud of how little you care what people think. But be careful you aren’t just using that as an excuse for a having bad attitudes or behaviors.

I’m confessing here, I’m going to need God’s help. I want to focus on being all God wants me to be, for my family, for my church, with my friends, and at my job.

What about you?

I encourage you to make a decision today. Determine which means more to you.

What do people think of me?

Who has God made me to be?

-Tom Wise

BIBLE STUDY | LEARNING TO ASK QUESTIONS: PART 2

If all went well, you have between 15-20 questions that you have put together for Mark 12:13-17.  Below is the passage and a list of questions compiled by a group of students I recently helped walk through this exercise.

13 Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him in order to trap Him in a statement. 14 They came and said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are truthful and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not? 15 Shall we pay or shall we not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.” 16 They brought one. And He said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.” 17 And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they [d]were amazed at Him.

Mark 12:13-17  (NASB)

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BIBLE STUDY | LEARNING TO ASK QUESTIONS: PART 1

Learning to ask questions about a text is one of a few basic skills you can develop, that will help you achieve great strides towards depth of understanding, as you study the bible.

As a reminder, the verse that we have chosen to explore is Mark 12:13-17.

At this point we are trying to remove any bias we may have towards the Scripture.  We want to make as few assumptions as possible.  Our primary concern is to ask questions, to be answered later.  Therefore, do not get hung up on what you think you know or how a question sounds.  Just jot your questions down as quickly as you can. Continue reading →