Bible Gateway 17 - The #1 Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 17 - The #1 Bible Gateway
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Here's a challenge for you ... tell me the number one step you can take to create a Bible Gateway.

If you get it right - I'll send you a surprise. Email me your answer ...

Chip Tarver

Bible Gateway 16 - Choices as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 16 - Your Choices are a Bible Gateway
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The objective of any Bible Gateway is to introduce people to, or further people's interest in, the Bible.

To get anyone to do anything, first you have to arrest his or her concentration long enough that they notice what you're saying to them ... and you have lots of choices and methods ...

Here's a list you might consider called "Three Things":

Three things in life that, when they're gone, never come back -
1. Time 2. Words 3. Opportunity

Three things in life that can never be lost -
1. Peace 2. Hope 3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable -
1. Love 2. Self-confidence 3. Friends

Three things in life that are never certain -
1. Dreams 2. Success 3. Fortune

Three things that make a man -
1. Hard work 2. Sincerity 3. Commitment

Three things in life that can destroy a man -
1. Wine 2. Pride 3. Anger

Three things that are truly constant -
1. Father 2. Son 3. Holy Ghost

I ask the Lord to bless you, as I pray for you today;
to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.
His love is always with you, His promises are true.
And when you give Him all your cares, I know He'll see you through.

God Bless you -
Chip
(author unknown)

Bible Gateway 15 - Imagery as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 15 - Imagery as a Bible Gateway
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Using imagery as a Bible Gateway can be a very powerful thing. People respond to both physical and mental pictures ... so remember that anything that leads people to the Bible is a Bible Gateway ...

Below are some phrases that should create images in your mind and show you how this works. Try it in your church marketing.I hope you see how this works from the info below ... these are purely wonderful emotions for you to experience ... and to consider ...

Think about the items on the following list one at a time BEFORE you go on to the next one ... IT DOES MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD, especially the thought at the end ... so allow your imagination to enjoy each of these situations ...

1. Falling in love

2. Laughing so hard your face hurts

3. A hot shower

4. No lines at the supermarket

5. A special glance

6. Getting mail

7. Taking a drive on a pretty road

8. Hearing your favorite song on the radio

9. Lying in bed listening to the rain outside

10. Hot towels fresh out of the dryer

11. Chocolate milkshake (or vanilla or strawberry!)

12. A bubble bath

13. Giggling

14. A good conversation

15. The beach

16. Finding a 20 dollar bill in your coat from last winter

17. Laughing at yourself

19. Midnight phone calls that last for hours

20. Running through sprinklers

21. Laughing for absolutely no reason at all

22. Having someone tell you that you're beautiful (or handsome)

23. Laughing at an inside joke

24. Friends

25. Accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you

26. Waking up and realizing you still have a few hours left to sleep

27 Your first kiss (either the very first or with a new partner)

28. Making new friends or spending time with old ones

29. Playing with a new puppy

30. Having someone play with your hair

31. Sweet dreams

32. Hot chocolate

33. Road trips with friends

34. Swinging on swings

35. Making eye contact with a cute stranger

36. Making chocolate chip cookies

37. Having your friends send you homemade cookies

38. Holding hands with someone you care about

39. Running into an old friend and realizing that some things (good or bad) never change

40. Watching the expression on someone's face as they open a much desired present from you

41. Watching the sunrise

42. Getting out of bed every morning and being grateful for another beautiful day

43 . Knowing that somebody misses you

44. Getting a hug from someone you care about deeply

45. Knowing you've done the right thing no matter what other people think

Pass on these natural highs to people you care about in the next half hour and something wonderful will happen to you today. Real friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

Author Unknown
(posted by Chip)

Bible Gateway 14 - Music as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 14 - Your Music as a Bible Gateway
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This is merely for you to consider ...

If you're a Church leader, what emphasis do you put on your music?

If you're sitting in the audience, what effect does music have on you?

How can music be a Bible Gateway?

If you'll look inside your Bible, you'll find the level of importance God puts on music, and also discover one super-star musician who got on God's "bad side" ... and what happened to him then ...

Then consider his effect on the "popular" music of today. What do you suppose is his mission through popular music? Ever given it any thought?

(Yes - even music is a Bible Gateway if it inspires you to come into the presence of God, and/or intrigues you enough to see the role of music throughout the Bible - and in your Church.)

Bless you -
Chip

Bible Gateway 13 - Bible Gateway Delay via cold

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Bible Gateway 13 - Bible Gateway Delay via cold
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I've had a miserable cold (my precious granddaughter gave me) for an entire week, and all the fun symptoms that go along with it. I'm thankful I'm self-employed and can take a few days off in these rare circumstances.

I haven't worked much, and even missed Church last night.

(Yes - I'd really appreciate your prayers.)

Chip

Bible Gateway 13 - Bible Gateway Delays

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Bible Gateway 13 - Bible Gateway Delays
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Please forgive my absence during the last few days from this Bible Gateway blog.

1. I've been moving my websites and blogs to a new dedicated server.

2. Some friends have been here since they dashed away from Hurricane Wilma in Florida.

3. Plus I'm also working on several new projects, products, and special reports for you.

So stay tuned. As always, I'll only share the best with you here and in my other blogs.

Chip

Bible Gateway 12 - Your Blog as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 12 - Your Blog is an Excellent Bible Gateway
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This is a first. It's so important that I'm making this same post in most of my blogs today.

You need a blog. You need it now. There is no better vehicle to get your message out.

Blogs are better than websites and better than email. Blogs help establish you as an expert and give you unparalleled access to people.

Go to http://www.free-targeted-traffic.com.

Get your copy of my pdf titled "Exactly how to have your own free blog set up and hosted in three minutes or less."

Do it now. Blog names are as precious as website urls. Blogs now even have their own Google search engine ...

Hurry! Do it now.

God Bless you -
Chip Tarver
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Bible Gateway 11 - Copywriting as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 11 - Copywriting as another Bible Gateway
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If you make any attempts to reach people through your writing, you would do well to learn some copywriting skills.

Why?

1 Corinthians 14:39-41 (NKJV):
39 Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. 40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

To do less is "to do less."

No pun intended ...

There are many excellent copywriters, tons of excellent resources, and they are extremely easy to locate on the Internet. My advice, though, is to pick one person to 'study' - and stick with it.

And - OF COURSE - the number One Source to follow is the inspiration of God as He gives you the words to say through His Holy Spirit. A copywriter can merely also help you phrase and arrange those words for maximum impact for your audience.

Chip Tarver
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Bible Gateway 10 - Honor as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 10 - Honor as Your Bible Gateway
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Do you understand that you'll NEVER be able to call anything 'your own' except your word. (If you don't believe me, just stop paying for something. Someone will come get it and return it to its owner.)

Honor is a Bible Gateway, as are so many other aspects and behaviors.

Like it or not ... believe it or not ... people are watching you. They watch how you speak, how you treat others, and even how you behave in traffic!

If you give people mixed signals, they'll say you talk the talk but can't and don't walk the walk.

That's a bad thing.

What does God say about honor? His Word is His love letter and instructions to us, so let's take a quick peek at what He says about it ...

Hmmmm ... the word 'honor' is mentioned 179 times in the NKJV. I never want to overwhelm people with all the verses. But I do think there is significance in what He says first and last ... so let's look ...


The first time in the Old Testament:

Genesis 34:18-20 (NKJV):
18 And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor’s son. 19 So the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. He was more honorable than all the household of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying:


(Look up all the times 'honor' is used in the Book of Proverbs.)


The last time in the Old Testament:

Malachi 1:5-7 (NKJV):
5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘ The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’ 6 “ A son honors his father, And a servant his master. If then I am the Father, Where is My honor? And if I am a Master, Where is My reverence? Says the LORD of hosts To you priests who despise My name. Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’ 7 “ You offer defiled food on My altar, But say, ' In what way have we defiled You?’ By saying, ‘ The table of the LORD is contemptible.’


The first time in the New Testament:

Matthew 13:56-58 (NKJV):
56 And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?” 57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.” 58 Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.


The last time in the New Testament:

Revelation 21:25-27 (NKJV):
25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.


Well - if God mentions honor (in the NKJV) 179 times ... and it's in both the first and last Books of His Word ... would you say that it's important to Him?

God Bless you –
Chip Tarver
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Bible Gateway 9 - Forgiveness as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 9 - Forgiveness is a Bible Gateway
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Just as the Ten Commandments are NOT the Ten Suggestions ... God is serious about forgiveness.

People get hurt every day out in the world (sad.)

People get hurt every day in churches (tragic.)

You have to forgive others, and you have to forgive yourself.

To embrace the various Bible Gateways, there are certain principles you have to embrace through faith. God reveals what He wants revealed ... as we're able to embrace it.

He also keeps things hidden for reasons He calls His own.


Forgiveness is mentioned in the first Book of the Bible:

Genesis 50:16-18 NKJV:
16 So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, 17 ‘Thus you shall say to Joseph: “I beg you, please forgive the trespass of your brothers and their sin; for they did evil to you.”’ Now, please, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. 18 Then his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

(and 98 more times in the NKJV ... 47 in the Old Testament and 42 times in the New Testament)


Here's the first mention in the New Testament ...

Matthew 6: 11-13 NKJV:
11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. 13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.


Here's and the last time in the New Testament:

1 John 2:11-13:
11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 12 I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, Because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, Because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, Because you have known the Father.


So - it apprenty worked. Look at the verb tenses in 1 John above ... are forgiven (present) ... have known and have overcome (past.)

As I said at the onset of this post, there are certain principles you have to embrace through faith. If God mentions forgiveness 99 times, starting at the first Book of the Bible, do you think forgiveness is pretty important to Him?

It's another Bible Gateway.

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Bible Gateway 8 - Tithe as a Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 8 - The Tithe as a Bible Gateway
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I'll probably agitate some people here by addressing this subject - but that's OK. Jesus was the greatest Agitator Who ever lived ... and we're supposed to try to be like Him - right?

And remember that it's my position that lots of things, people, events, and other circumstances can be a gateway to the Bible. The best Bible Gateway will always be God's Word - because it's infallible. That said, lots of other ways are still important Bible Gateways ...

Well - what does the Word of God say about the tithe?

How can a tithe be a Bible Gateway?

The Word of God is the ultimate Judge because it's the Word of God ... and the Word says a title is "a tenth."


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In the very first Book in the Bible, in Genesis 14:20, Abraham did it ... "And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all."

(Abraham was a "Big Guy" to God ... Abraham even has his own covenant named after him.)


In the Book of Leviticus - in 27:30 - "And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's. It is holy to the Lord."

In 27:32 - "And concerning the tithe of the herd or the flock, of whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord."


In The Book of Numbers - in 18:26 - "Speak thus to the Levites, and say to them: 'When you take from the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you shall offer up a heave offering of it to the Lord, a tenth of the tithe."


In The Book of Deuteronomy - in 12:17 - "You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand."

In 14:22 - "You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the field produces year by year."

In 14:23 - "And you shall eat before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and your new wine and your oil, of the firstborn of your herds and your flocks, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always."

In 14:24 - "But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you,"

In 14:28 - "At the end of every third year you shall bring out the tithe of your produce of that year and store it up within your gates."

In 26:12-13 - "When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year--the year of tithing--and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled, then you shall say before the Lord your God: 'I have removed the holy tithe from my house, and also have given them to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not transgressed Your commandments, nor have I forgotten them."


In The Book of 2 Chronicles in 31:5-6 - "As soon as the commandment was circulated, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of grain and wine, oil and honey, and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything. And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the Lord their God they laid in heaps."


In The Book of Nehemiah 13:12 - "Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the storehouse."


And here's a BIGGIE from Malachi 3:7-12 -

7 Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," Says the Lord of hosts. "But you said, 'In what way shall we return?' 8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this," Says the Lord of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 "And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field," Says the Lord of hosts; 12 "And all nations will call you blessed, For you will be a delightful land," Says the Lord of hosts.

(That's a pretty strong statement God used to send His people into the 400-year intertestimental period between the Old Testament and the New Testament - wouldn't you agree? Think the tithe was important in the Old Testament to God?)


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In The Book of Matthew in 23:23 - "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."


In The Book of Luke in 11:42 - "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone."


Well - there you have it - all the references to the tithe in the New King James Version of the Bible. Lots of people focus on Malachi 3 above because God plainly says. "If you don't tithe, you rob Me."

Think the tithe is a Bible Gateway?

God Bless you –
Chip Tarver
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Bible Gateway 7 - Faith is The Bible Gateway

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Bible Gateway 7 - Faith is The Bible Gateway
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Believer or non-believer ... everyone has faith ... in "something."

Believers have faith in the Lord ... non-believers have faith in 'the world."

What does the Word of God say? Do we need faith in Him or not?


In Romans 10:7 - " So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

[So - we know that faith comes though hearing (and hearing again) the word of God.]


In Romans 12:3 - "For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a [perfect] measure of faith. "

[So we know God has given us the perfect amount of faith.]


In Hebrews 11:1 - "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not [yet] seen."

[So - we know that faith is both a substance, and eveidence ... both 'physical' forms.]

Let's summarize so far - faith comes by hearing, we have the perfect amount of it, it's physical (both substance and evidence) ... so we can know that we have it (or don't.)

Well - what happens if we DON'T have it (faith)?

In Hebews 11:6 - "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

So - is faith important to God? You decide ...

God Bless you –
Chip Tarver
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