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 Index of Seeds For Thinking -  Articles with illustrations  . . .

• Alpha And Omega - First and Last
• Scripture: Isaiah wrote, “Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last I am He.’ ” - Isaiah 41:4

•   A New Birth
• Scripture: Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  - John 3:3

• A Social Blunder
• Scripture:  Jesus said,  Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head. -  Luke 7:44

• Be Transformed In Spirit, And Arise, Ascend
• Scripture: Paul wrote,  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern  what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and perfect.  -  Romans 12:2 

• Bird Brain
• Scripture: Job said,  Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.  - Job 42:3b

• Caller ID
• Scripture: Paul wrote,  We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. - Romans 8:26

• Christian Challenges
• Scripture:  Jesus said, “ . . .the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”  - Luke 9:56

• Dandelion In December
  
• Scripture: "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching."  (2 Timothy 4:2, NKJV)

• Different Gifts
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.“ -  Romans 12:6

• Do not seek revenge
• Scripture:  “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.  I AM the Lord.” - Lev. 19:18

• Easter - Everything Fulfilled
• Scripture: Jesus said, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.” - John 24:44

• Farmers and Fishermen
• Scripture: “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” Mark 1:17, NIV.
  Jesus said, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.” - Matthew 9:37

• Firm Foundation
• Scripture: Jesus said, “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.” -  Matthew 7:24

• First and Last - Alpha And Omega
• Scripture: Isaiah wrote, “Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? ‘I, the LORD, am the first; And with the last I am He.’ ” - Isaiah 41:4

• Flowers Of The Field
• Scripture: Jesus said, “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,  . . . shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”- Mt. 6:30

• Forget-Me-Nots of Angels
• Scripture: Isaiah said, “O people of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.”  - Isaiah 2:5

• Gardens
• Scripture:  Paul wrote: So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time,    if we do not give up.” - Gal. 5:9

• Get In  Touch With God
• Scripture: Jesus said, “When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen." Mt. 6:6

• God's Recycling Center
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.”  - 2 Corinthians 5:18

• He Is Risen
  
• Scripture: The angel said, “He is not here; he has risen! - Luke 24:6a

•   Henny Penny, My Black Hen 
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “Watch your life and doctrine closely.”  - 1 Timothy 4:16

•   Hunting for chickens  
• Scripture: Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.” - Luke 22:61b

•   Identify Jesus  
• Scripture: Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss is the man; arrest him and lead him away under guard.” -  Mark 14:44

•   If Animals Could Talk
• Scripture: Warnings against Folly: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise.” Proverbs 6:6

•   It Shall Be Forever
• Scripture: “I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.”  -  Ecc 3:10-11

•   It's Greek To Me
• Scripture: “Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast (of Passover.) They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee . . . ,” and asked to see Jesus.  - John 12:20-21

• Kingship
  
• Scripture: “. . . you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethern you shall set as king over you; . . . ” (Deuteronomy 17:15a, NKJV)

• Kiss a Frog
• Scripture: Jesus said, “For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”  - Lk. 11:10

• Lang May Yer Lum Reek
• Scripture: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever beliveth in him should not perish,  but have everlasting life.  - John 3:16

• Laying or Laying
• Scripture: Paul said, “For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.”  - Acts 17:28, 

•  Let Your Light Shine
• Scripture: Jesus said, “You are the light of the world. Let your light shine . . .”  - Mt. 5: 14; 16

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• Love Will Endure
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “. . . where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.” - I Cor. 13:8

• Make Disciples of All Nations
• Scripture: Jesus said: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations . . .”  - Matthew 28:19a

•   Motherhood
• Scripture: Mary sang, “My soul praises the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.”  - Luke 146-47

• Multitudes
• Scripture: “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.” -  Matthew 9:36

•   My Soul Thirsts For God - Water
• Scripture:  Psalm 42: “As a hart pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”

•   Nothing Impossible
• Scripture: Jesus said, “I you have  faith as small as a mustard seed,  . . . nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20 

• Ox In The Ditch?
• Scripture: Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?“  - Luke 14:3

•  Patience of Job
• SCRIPTURE:  Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.”  - James 5:7-8

•   Possible With God
• Scripture: Jesus said, “With man this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible.”  - Matthew 19:26

• Prodigal Rooster
• Scripture: “Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable.” - Mt. 13:34

• Put off the old
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “ . . . put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” - Ephesians 4:24

•   Rain
• Scripture: Jesus said, “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” Mt. 5:44 
  Ezekiel 34:26b - I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. NKJV

•   Read and Heed the signs
• Scripture: Jesus said, “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet.Jonah.” - Mt. 16:4

• Ready to Dine
• Scripture: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.” (Revelation 3:20

•   Springtime
• Scripture: “See!  The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come; the cooing of doves is heard in our land.”  -  Song of Songs, 2:11-12

•   Stumbling Blocks
• Scripture: Paul wrote, “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.  - Romans 14:19

•   The Churchy Quiz
• Scripture: “Do you understand what you are reading?” Phillip asked.   “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” - Acts 8:30b-31a.
  
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• The Final Harvest
• Scripture: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the way of the wicked. . .  (he) yields   . . . fruit in season. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.  - Psalm 1
  
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•   The Mirror
• Scripture: “The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: “God, I thank you that I am not like all other men - robbers, evil doers, adulterers - or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of all I get.” - Luke 18:11-12

• The Power Source
  
• Scripture: “that (the king) may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes . . .” (from Deuteronomy 17:19, NKJV)


• The Trial
• Scripture: Jesus said, “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor (Paraclete) to be with you forever - the Spirit of Truth.” - John 14:16

• The Ugly Duckling
• Scripture: Jesus said, “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.  . . .  If they persecuted me, they will persecute you.” John 15:18; 15:20b

•   Thirsting for the Living God - Knowledge
• Scripture: The Psalmist wrote, “As the deer pants for streams of water,so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”, Psalm 42:1-2a

• Through A Glass Darkly
• Scripture: Paul wrote: “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” I  Corinthians 13:12, NIV

• Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself
• Scripture: Jesus said, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” -  Mt. 6:34

•   Tracks In the Snow
• Scripture: “Come, now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”  - Isaiah 1:18

• Train Up A Child
• Scripture: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

• What's Bugging You? 
• Scripture: Jesus said, “Between us (heaven)  and you (hell)  a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.”  - Luke 16:26

•   Worldly Wisdom
• Scripture: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness.” - 1 Corinthians 3:19

•   The X In Xmas
• Scripture: And the Word became flesh, and lived among us. . . ..” - John 1:14a

•   Yeast In Your Bread
• Scripture: Jesus said, “What shall I compare the Kingdom of God to? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it worked all through the dough.” - Luke 13:20-21

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