Acts 18:24-28 (NIV) CONTEXT: This week we're working through selections from the book of Acts looking In today's passage, we're introduced to Apollos, who would become an effective gospel evangelist. 24  He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. 25  He had been instructed in the Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: 2 Corinthians 10

BibleHub.com Galatians 3:26-29 26  So in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith, 27  for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28  There is neither Jew Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Today: Luke 22

Deuteronomy 28:15-20 (NIV) CONTEXT: The first fourteen verses of chapter 28 set out the blessings that and the lambs of your flocks. 19  You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. 20 Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Article 1 - God's right to condemn all people ), and “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). Today: Starts again on January 1     DISCUSS:   What's the most shocking thing to you to read that

Romans 3:9–20 (NIV) 9  What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity

Greed, that ugly root of sin that Jesus identified in 1 Timothy 6:10, is nothing new either.

among the people, and he will dwell with them, and God himself will be with them and be their God (Rev. 21 increasingly blameless; ASK GOD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: Read the New Testament in a year, a chapter a day - 1 Timothy 4

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 (NIV) 14  When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken , which even as it yearns for freedom, it desires a king / government to fight our battles for us (1 Samuel 8:20). basis than the people do; whereas people look at the outward appearance, the LORD looks at the heart (1 Today: Revelation 2

disagreed on this issue, but had a deep respect for one another and didn't fight over it) Romans 11:22 -29 CONTEXT: Romans chapter 11 comes in a section of the book in which Paul works through the complexities Canons of Dordt Point 1 - God's Unconditional Election Point 2 - Limited Atonement Point 3 - Total Depravity Dig Deeper   Verses 25-26 represent one of the most contested passages in the entire Bible: ...Israel Today: Luke 23

when such persons are elected who are faithful and are chosen according to the rule that Paul gave to Timothy Today: 1 Peter 3

Matthew 27:46 (NIV) About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani Listen to passage & devotional: Belgic Confession of Faith, Article 21: The Atonement We believe that Jesus is directly quoting Psalm 22:1, which is a psalm of lament. Today: Colossians 2