Thursday, December 12, 2013

Greetings Bible Enthusiast!

Today is our last day of studying self-control, but please, do not let it be your last day of thinking on the subject. Walter Scott wrote, "There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character that was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.

God Bless You!
Annie

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--TODAY'S NOT SO TRIVIAL TRIVIA QUESTION:

Q. What two trees are specifically named in the Bible as being planted in the Garden of Eden?

Answer below.

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--TODAY'S BIT OF WISDOM/REFLECTION:

No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

-Thomas a Kempis

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--DAILY BIBLE VERSE:

But the ones [the seeds] that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.

Luke 8:15

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--ANSWER TO TRIVIA QUESTION:

Q. What two trees are specifically named in the Bible as being planted in the Garden of Eden?

A. The tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9