A Comprehensive List of Blog Posts Based on Bible Passage Reference

Genesis

• • Genesis 1:1-19 – The Fourth Day Anomaly
  • Genesis 3:1-6 – Why Did God Forbid this One Fruit?
  • Genesis 11:1-19 – Is God Against Construction Projects?
  • Genesis 14:17-20 – Who is This Melchizidek Character?
  • Genesis 20:1-18 – Old Habits are Hard to Break
  • Genesis 22:1-14 – Was it Immoral for God to Ask Abraham to Sacrifice His Son Isaac?
  • Genesis 27:1-40 – Like Father, Like Son, Like Grandson
  • Genesis 32:22-32 – A Divine Wrestling Match
  • Genesis 40:1-23 – Alone and Forgotten
  • Genesis 40:1-23 – The Prisoner and the Cupbearer

Exodus

• • Exodus 3:1-17 – What’s in a Name?
  • Exodus 12:1-13 – Understanding the Plagues in Exodus

Leviticus

• • Leviticus 1:3-5, 10, 14 – Making Sense of Leviticus
  • Leviticus 2:4-10 – Making Sense of Leviticus
  • Leviticus 3:1, 6 – Making Sense of Leviticus
  • Leviticus 4:1-4 – Making Sense of Leviticus
  • Leviticus 16:3-22 – The Origin of the Scapegoat

Numbers

• • Numbers 22:1-33 – Is the God of the Old Testament Petty?

Deuteronomy

• • Deuteronomy 7:1-6 – Is God Against Interracial Marriages?
  • Deuteronomy 21:22-23 – I Put a Spell on You
  • Deuteronomy 30:11-20 – Choose Wisely

Joshua

• • Joshua 1:1-9 – Three Reasons to Be Courageous
  • Joshua 9:1-18 – The Consequences of Not Checking Your Facts

Judges

• • Judges 3:1-11 – Oh How Quickly We Forget

Ruth

1 Samuel

• • 1 Samuel 3:11-14 – Samuel, Spankings and a Box of Lemonheads
  • 1 Samuel 15:1-23 – You Had ONE Job!

2 Samuel

• • 2 Samuel 11:1-17 – Two Opposite Pictures of Leadership

1 Kings

• • 1 Kings 21:1-16 – An Ancient Example of Injustice
  • 1 Kings 22:1-28 – An Old Testament Echo Chamber

2 Kings

• • 2 Kings 6:8-20 – “Game Over, Man!”
  • 2 Kings 8:7-15 – A “Twilight Zone” Episode from the Old Testament
  • 2 Kings 17:24-41 – The Recipe for “Salad Bar” Religion

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

• • Ezra 9:1-15 – Is God Against Interracial Marriages?

Nehemiah

• • Nehemiah 2:1-6 – The Shortest (NON) Prayer in the Bible

Esther

• • Esther 3:1-11 – An Ancient Example of Cancel Culture
  • Esther 8:1-8 – The Queen’s Gamble

Job

• • Job 1:1-11 – Is Extreme Wealth Evil?
  • Job 1:1-22 – Was Job a Real Person?
  • Job 8:1-7 – The Prosperity Gospel in the Old Testament
  • Job 9:1-24 – Job’s Case of Cognitive Dissonance
  • Job 38:1-21 – Brace Yourself!

Psalms

• • Psalm 1:1-6 – Keys to Thriving
  • Psalm 13 – A Contradictory Psalm
  • Psalm 19:1-6 – Follow the Science
  • Psalm 22-1-18 – A Prophetic Psalm
  • Psalm 53:1-6 – The Implications of Belief in No God
  • Psalm 75:1-10 – Does the Existence of Evil Disprove God?
  • Psalm 90:1-4 – A Psalm About the Nature of God
  • Psalm 94:1-23 – Can a Psalm Refute Buddhism?
  • Psalm 95:1-11 – A Psalm with a Timely Warning
  • Psalm 101:1-8 – A Psalm for Those Who Aspire to Lead
  • Psalm 103:10-12 – The Origin of the Scapegoat
  • Psalm 106:34-48 – Is the Old Testament God a Bloodthirsty, Genocidal Psychopath?
  • Psalm 119:1-20 – The Endless Virtues of God’s Word
  • Psalm 119 – Can You Make the Bible an Idol?
  • Psalm 135:15-18 – Are You an Idol Worshiper?
  • Psalm 136:1-26 – A Psalm that Doubles as a Responsive Reading
  • Psalm 142 – A Covid Cave Prayer
  • Psalm 146:1-10 – Don’t Put Confidence in Powerful People

Proverbs

• • Proverbs 5:1-23 – Don’t Put Confidence in Powerful People
  • Proverbs 8:1-36 – Does Proverbs 8 Prove that Jesus is a Created Being?
  • Proverbs 11:7 – Can Golf Nourish Your Soul?
  • Proverbs 11:26 – A Word About Hoarding and Price Gouging
  • Proverbs 18:4, 14, 20, 21 – “Sticks and Stones…” Revisited
  • Proverbs 18:2, 6, 7, 13 – Communication Advice from the Bible
  • Proverbs 21:23 – Keep Your Mouth Shut!
  • Proverbs 23:13-14 – Samuel, Spankings and a Box of Lemonheads
  • Proverbs 26:4-5 – Biblical Advice: Don’t Feed the Trolls

Ecclesiastes

• • Ecclesiastes 2:1-26 – Filling a God-Shaped Hole
  • Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 – What Does it Mean to Have Eternity in The Human Heart?
  • Ecclesiastes 5:10-20 – Is Wealth Immoral? (Part 3)
  • Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 – A Wise Person Thinks about Death?
  • Ecclesiastes 11:1 – Is Wealth Immoral? (Part 2)
  • Ecclesiastes 11:2 – Biblical Investing Advice

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

• • Isaiah 6:1-8 – Whatever Became of Sin?
  • Isaiah 8:11-22 – Who Knows?
  • Isaiah 10:5-19 – The Whip of God’s Anger
  • Isaiah 44:9-20 – A Discourse on the Foolishness of Idols
  • Isaiah 53:1-12 – Why Do Jews Reject Jesus as Their Messiah?

Jeremiah

• • Jeremiah 2:1-13 – The Allure of Cheap Substitutes
  • Jeremiah 44:11-30 – The Prayer of Rebellion

Lamentations

Ezekiel

• • Ezekiel 23:1-21 – A Tale of Two Sisters

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

• • Jonah 1:1-17 – You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

• • Malachi 3:6-12 – Is it Possible to Cheat God?

Matthew

• • Matthew 3:11-17 – Why Was Jesus Baptized?
  • Matthew 5:3 – Does God Help Those Who Help Themselves?
  • Matthew 5:43-48 – “You’ve Heard it Said…”
  • Matthew 6:19-24 – He Who Dies with the Most Toys Wins!
  • Matthew 7:1-5 – Is It Always Wrong to Judge Others?
  • Matthew 7:21-23 – The Decisive Issue in Following Christ
  • Matthew 11:1-15 – How Jesus Responds to Doubts
  • Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 – Can the Church Usher in a Utopian Society?
  • Matthew 16:1-4 – When Someone DEMANDS Evidence!
  • Matthew 16:13-20 – What Does it Mean When Jesus Gives Peter “the Keys” to the Kingdom of Heaven
  • Matthew 19-16-30 – Does God Exact a Higher Standard for Rich People to Enter Heaven?
  • Matthew 20:1-16 – Is God Unfair in How He Treats People?
  • Matthew 21:33-46 – A Trap Religious Leaders Can Fall Into
  • Matthew 24:1-14 – Finishing the Task
  • Matthew 26:31-46, 69-75 – Peter’s Bad Rap
  • Matthew 27:15-27 – What Happened to Barabbas?
  • Matthew 27:62-66 – Which Hoax Do You Believe?
  • Matthew 28:11-15 – Which Hoax Do You Believe?

Mark

• • Mark 1:1-8 – The Beginning of the Gospel
  • Mark 4:1-9, 14-20 – Which Soil Are You?
  • Mark 5:1-17 – Jesus Casts out a Legion of Demons
  • Mark 7:24-30 – Was Jesus a Racist Who Needed to Repent?
  • Mark 8:27-30 – The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself
  • Mark 10:17-27 – Are You Good Enough?
  • Mark 10:35-45 – Two Opposite Pictures of Leadership
  • Mark 11:12-25 – Did Jesus Need a Snickers Bar When He Cursed the Fig Tree?
  • Mark 14:1-9 – A Biblical Example of Virtue Signaling
  • Mark 14:32-42 – The Time God the Father Denied Jesus His Request
  • Mark 15:33-41 – The Significance of the Torn Veil
  • Mark 16:1-6 – He is Risen….Why Does it Matter?

Luke

• • Luke 4:1-14 – What Can We Learn from the Temptations of Jesus?
  • Luke 9:57-62 – What Does it Look Like to Follow Jesus?
  • Luke 12:13-21 – Is it Immoral to Be Wealthy?
  • Luke 13:6-9 – Why Does My Fruit Tree Have no Fruit?
  • Luke 15:8-10 – That Feeling of Panic
  • Luke 15:11-24 – Revisiting the Story of the Prodigal Son
  • Luke 22:66-71 – Are You or Aren’t You?
  • Luke 23:1-5; 13-21 – Fake News and Cancel Culture in the New Testament
  • Luke 24:1-12 – Early Christianity and the Role of Women

John

• • John 1:1-14 – A Modern Day Version of an Ancient Heresy
  • John 1:10-13 – Is it Unbiblical to Teach That Salvation is About “Accepting Jesus”?
  • John 3:1-8 – The Born-Again Redundancy
  • John 5:16-30 – The Sabbath Smokescreen
  • John 8:31-59 – Who’s Your Daddy?
  • John 9:1-41 – Perfect Vision But Totally Blind
  • John 10:22-33 – Evidence that Jesus is God
  • John 11:1-37 – The Shortest, Yet Most Profound Verse
  • John 14:1-6 – What is Your Definition of Truth?
  • John 15:1-8 – What is Required to Bear Fruit as a Christian?
  • John 15:18-27 – Haters Gonna Hate, Hate, Hate

Acts

• • Acts 5:1-11 – Is the Holy Spirit Like “The Force” in Star Wars?
  • Acts 5:1-6 – The Consequences of Deceit
  • Acts 7:40-41 – Are you an Idol Worshiper?
  • Acts 9:17-22 – Saul’s Conversion and Confirmation Bias
  • Acts 14:8-18 – Evidence that Jesus is God
  • Acts 15:1-11 – A Pivotal Council in the Early Church
  • Acts 15:36-37 – It’s Not How You Start But How You Finish!
  • Acts 15:36-41 – Who Was at Fault for the First Recorded Church Split?
  • Acts 17:10-12 – Fact-Checking and Misinformation in the New Testament
  • Acts 19:1-7 – Why Was Jesus Baptized?
  • Acts 22:1-22 – What is Your One Word for 2024?
  • Acts 24:1-9 – Fake News and Cancel Culture in the New Testament

Romans

• • Romans 1:18-32 – Where Did That Ball Come From?
  • Romans 2:1-16 – What About Those Who’ve Never Heard About Jesus?
  • Romans 3:21-28 – You’re no Good, You’re no Good, You’re no Good, Baby You’re no Good!
  • Romans 4:1-15 – How Good Do You Have to Be to Be Saved?
  • Romans 8:1-11 – An Issue of Control
  • Romans 12:9-18 – All You Need is Love
  • Romans 14:1-23 – Dealing with Differences of Opinion
  • Romans 14:1-23 – Does Paul Advocate Moral Relativism?

1 Corinthians

• • 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 – “Name Dropping” in the Early Church
  • 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 – Political Divisions Within the Church
  • 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 – A Mark of Immaturity
  • 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 – Is it Always Wrong to Judge Others? (Part 2)
  • 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 – The Importance of Conditioning
  • 1 Corinthians 10:23-33 – Dealing with Gray Areas

2 Corinthians

• • 2 Corinthians 2:12-17 – Are You a Christian who Smells?
  • 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 – Will Christians Face or Avoid Judgment?
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 – What Does it Mean to be Unequally Yoked?

Galatians

• • Galatians 3:1-14 – Have You Been Scammed?
  • Galatians 3:1-14 – I Put a Spell on You
  • Galatians 4:1-7 – Are You a Slave or a Son?
  • Galatians 4:21-31 – Sons of Abraham: Slavery vs. Freedom
  • Galatians 5:16-26 – What Does it Mean to Walk in the Spirit

Ephesians

• • Ephesians 1:13 – The Holy Spirit as a Seal
  • Ephesians 1:14 – The Holy Spirit as a Deposit
  • Ephesians 2:1-10 – Grace Anatomy
  • Ephesians 4:17-24 – You’re a Rotten Person
  • Ephesians 4:30 – The Holy Spirit as a Seal
  • Ephesians 5:15-20 – Under the Influence
  • Ephesians 6:10-18 – Wrestling Against Evil

Philippians

• • Philippians 2:5-11 – Two Opposite Pictures of Leadership
  • Philippians 4:13 – Does Jesus Really Give us the Strength to do ANYTHING?

Colossians

• • Colossians 1:15-20 – What Does it Mean that Jesus is the Firstborn?
  • Colossians 3:15-17 – How Do We Experience Peace?
  • Colossians 4:13 – It’s Not How You Start But How You Finish!

1 Thessalonians

• • 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – What Does it Mean to “Pray Without Ceasing”?

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

• • 1 Timothy 2:1-4 – Do You Pray for Your Political Rivals?
  • 1 Timothy 2:1-7 – Is Christianity an Exclusive Religion?
  • 1 Timothy 4:7-10 – The Importance of Spiritual Fitness
  • 1 Timothy 6:6-10 – Is Wealth Immoral? (Part 2)

2 Timothy

• • 2 Timothy 2:23-36 – A Must-Read Passage Before Posting on Social Media
  • 2 Timothy 3:14-17 – Training in Righteousness (Part 2)
  • 2 Timothy 3:14-17 – What Does it Mean that All Scripture is God-Breathed?
  • 2 Timothy 4:9-13 – It’s Not How You Start But How You Finish!

Titus

• • Titus 3:1-2 – The Christian Response to Government and Laws
  • Titus 3:1-2 – Should Christians Obey the Government?
  • Titus 3:3-8 – Further Proof that Jesus is God
  • Titus 3:3-8 – A Biblical Gospel Presentation in ONE Six-verse Passage

Hebrews

• • Hebrews 1:1-3 – Better Than…
  • Hebrews 3:1-19 – Biblical Warning: Round 2
  • Hebrews 4:14-16 – What Can We Learn from the Temptations of Jesus?
  • Hebrews 5:11-14 – Are You A Christian Who Needs Milk or Meat?
  • Hebrews 7:1-22 – Who is This Melchizidek Character?
  • Hebrews 9:11-28 – A Better Sacrifice
  • Hebrews 10:19-25 – Access Granted

James

• • James 1:2-4 – The Struggle for Endurance
  • James 3:2-12 – Weaponizing Our Words

1 Peter

• • 1 Peter 2:4-6 – Building a New Temple

2 Peter

• • 2 Peter 1:3-9 – Why Some Christians Never Grow

1 John

• • 1 John 1:5-10 – Walking in the Light Simplified
  • 1 John 2:7-10 – How Can You Know if You’re Really a True Christian?
  • 1 John 3:11-20 – How Can You Know if You’re Really a True Christian?
  • 1 John 4:1-6 – Does Your Understanding of the Nature of Jesus Really Matter?
  • 1 John 4:7-21 – Can a Person Love Jesus But Hate His Followers?
  • 1 John 5:1-10 – Is Your View of Jesus Really That Important? (Part 2)
  • 1 John 5:11-13 – How Do You Prepare for God’s Final Exam?

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

• • Revelation 2:1-7 – Have You Left Your First Love?
  • Revelation 2:12-17 – Compromise isn’t Always Good
  • Revelation 3:14-22 – Is Being a Cold Christian Better Than Being Lukewarm?
  • Revelation 3:14-22 – Can Revelation 3:20 Be Used in Evangelism to Non-Christians?