Bible Trivia Bible Word Search True or False

The women of Israel danced when Goliath was killed by David. Hannah made a rode every year for her son.

In 1 Samuel, Jonathan and David made a covenant of friendship. The priest of Nod gave Saul's sword to David.

Saul massacred eighty-five priests in the town of Nazareth.

David's wife Abigail was also married to a man named Nabel. At night Saul visited a medium.

When Samuel was a boy, he was awakened out of his sleep by the voice of God.

Saul's bones were buried under a bridge at Jabesh.

Saul's sons were killed by the Philistines.

King Saul was critically wounded by Philistine arrows.

Six of Saul's sons were killed in battle.

Eli's sons were killed when the ark was taken.

The ark of the covenant was taken into battle with the Philistines by Eli's sons.

Dagon was the god of the Philistines.

Samuel, a judge and a prophet, built an altar to the Lord at Ramah.

Samuel's home was in the city of Ramah.

Kish was the father of King Saul.

Jesus Christ is the mediator between God and man.

Paul told Timothy that Christians should lift up a symbol of the cross in prayer.

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“He received 39 stripes because 40 was known to kill a man. They wanted him alive. They held handfuls of his beard, and hair and pulled it out by the roots. They wanted him alive. They kicked, punched, and spit on him for hours. Until there wasn’t a single spot on his body not covered in blood. They wanted him alive. They shoved a crown of thorns down on his head so harshly it stuck in his skin. They wanted him alive. After hours of being beaten, mocked, whipped, flogged, and tortured they made him walk with a cross. They made him carry it. A rough piece of wood with splinters digging into fresh wounds. They wanted him alive. They wanted him to feel every ounce of pain they could bring. He had to feel it in order to heal us. Crucifixion was historically one of the cruelest most tortured deaths a human could face. Hours upon hours of torture. Torture most of us can not mentally think of because the cruelty isn’t normal. It isn’t something our minds can comprehend. We celebrate Easter with pastel colors, happy children hunting with pastel colors, and chocolate. Truth is there was absolutely nothing happy about the day Jesus died. It was cruel, bloody, and nasty. He could have stopped all of it. He could have called every angel in heaven to demolish every person standing and shouting “Crucify Him!” He didn’t. He knew in order to have a Sunday you have to have a Friday. He knew in order to have joy you have to carry your cross. He felt everything that day. He felt how heavy your life was when you were staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if the man you called

Answers Page 17 husband was going to shoot you. He carried the weight of the burden you have felt since your spouse died, and life just doesn’t seem right since. On that cross he held the rapist and murderers, the sinner and the saint. He leveled every playing field and said ALL of you are worth it. He knew he had to carry the cross. He never promised the cross you carry in this life would not be heavy. His wasn’t. His promise is that Sunday is coming no matter how heavy Friday is. You can conquer anything because HE IS RISEN!

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It should go without saying that this deplorable model isn't something that U.S. states like Vermont should be inclined to emulate.

Unfortunately, progressive minded state governments are instead following the lead of the Trudeau regime, in terms of failing to acknowledge the accelerating spiral of abuses that are always associated with legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide.

True compassion is manifested through comforting the terminally ill and others who are at risk of opting for suicide, caring for their needs, and communicating by these actions of love that their lives remain invaluable despite the difficulties they are enduring.

"The request which arises from the human heart in the supreme

CONTINUED confrontation with suffering and death, especially when faced with the temptation to give up in utter desperation, is above all a request for companionship, sympathy and support in the time of trial," St. John Paul II wrote in Evangelium Vitae. "It is a plea for help to keep on hoping when all human hopes fail.”

Above all, we must strive always to see the face of Jesus in the faces of those who are suffering, appealing to us to provide them with the solace and love that they deserve. Only in this way can we hope to rebuild a more life-affirming culture in our nation.

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feelings of excessive guilt or shame, and suicidal thoughts or preoccupation with death.

Michael, like his dad, benefited from counseling and an antidepressant. He was willing to both reach out for help and follow through on his treatment. It is important to realize that everyone is different, treatment will vary.

How about you? Have you been struggling with depression? I encourage you to reach out for help. The Lord has placed us in community for a reason – we need one another. And friend, if the heroes of our faith were prone to depression, consider yourself in good company. There is no need to feel guilty or to feel as if you have failed God. I can assure you, that with God's help, I have seen hundreds of people find relief and hope. And you can find it, too. a means to an end, and that end is true and abundant life: “Whoever loses their life for my sake will find it” (Matthew 10:39, NIV).

If you are having suicidal thoughts, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 for support and assistance from a trained counselor. If you or a loved one are in immediate danger, call 911.

Dr. Mark M. McNear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, maintaining a private practice in New Jersey. He has over thirty years of experience in clinical work. A graduate of Northeastern Bible College, New York University, and Oxford Graduate School, Dr. McNear just released his memoir, Finding My Words: A Ruthless Commitment to Healing Gently After Trauma, through Renown Publishing.

Theologian John Brown wrote, “He who believes the truth enters on the enjoyment of a happiness which is of the same nature, and springs from the same sources, as the happiness of God.”

Have You Had A Heart Transplant?

Scripture is full of disheartening diagnoses, including that “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure” (Jeremiah 17:9, NIV).

But the Great Physician must tell us this hard truth so we can say, “Create in me a clean heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10, ESV). The Physician also promises, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees” (Ezekiel 36:26-27, NIV).

Words that at first may sting us deeply don’t mean we’re without hope, only that we cannot cure ourselves. But God has provided the cure: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV).

Eternal life is not found by believing in just any god but by believing in the “only true God.” False gods, both religious and secular, litter the landscape. “Jesus prayed, ‘Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent’” (John 17:3, NIV). The only true God is the one who sent the only true Savior, Jesus Christ.

Jesus gives us more than eternal existence. He gives us eternal life: “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6, ESV).

This great truth all hinges on the person and work of none other than Jesus.

God’s Best And Most Perfect Gift To Us Is Jesus Himself

“All things were created through him and for him…and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:16-17, NIV).

If everything that comes into our lives is Father-filtered, how can we be anything less than optimistic? Our optimism is based squarely on realism: Jesus is real, atonement is real, resurrection is real, Heaven is real, and the Gospel really is “good news.”

William Temple wrote, “The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.” And Scripture tells us that apart from Christ, we were “dead in [our] sins.” This sounds like bad news since a corpse can’t raise itself from the grave.

Salvation is a gift: we contribute absolutely nothing. When Jesus called Lazarus from the tomb, He did the work, not Lazarus. Salvation depends on God’s mercy and His faithfulness to His promises.

Faith saves us, and we stay saved because of the sustaining, persevering work of God in our lives. The “good news” includes the fact that we needn’t live in fear of losing our salvation: “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand” (John 10:28, NIV).

Our source of comfort is the truth that not only will we be with the Lord in Heaven, but also that we’ll be with each other. In Heaven, God will delight in His children’s love for each other. As we walk and talk and laugh together, He’ll take as much pleasure in it as we do.

Colorado Football Coach Sanders’ Unabashed Faith

By Steve Rees Assistnews.net

Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders, now at the helm of the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team in Boulder, is a man of great faith, like the 1990 National Championship winner and Promise Keepers founder Bill McCartney.

The central figure of a four-series documentary titled “Coach Prime,” Sanders credits God for his success in the National Football League as a two-time Super Bowl champion, as a Major League Baseball World Series player, and as a winning college coach at Jackson State University, before landing at CU.

In the Amazon docuseries, “Coach Prime” talks about his trust in the Lord through a life-or-death ordeal in 2021 when blood clots threatened his leg’s amputation.

His leg was not amputated, but he lost two toes.

An NFL kick returner and defensive back with a career 53 interceptions, Sanders says the Lord was with him throughout the health scare.

“That was one of the most trying times of my life,” Sanders says in a recent morning show interview about the series and his college-coaching

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An athlete proud of his physical attributes, Sanders recalls conversations with God about life, telling Him: “I know darn well you didn’t bring me this far for this.”

Trusting God without doubting, wavering or succumbing to fear during the trial, Coach Prime’s faith sustained him through life’s biggest challenge so far.

Yet, seeing his adult children at the hospital was as much a test for Sanders as it was for his family.

“When you’re on your back looking up, you’ve got to remain consistent with who you are and what you believe,” says Sanders. “That was a trying time but we made it through,” he says.

Suffering serious injuries in an NFC playoff game between his Dallas Cowboys and the Carolina Panthers in 1997, “Coach Prime” knows what another professional football player is facing on his road to recovery.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field from a serious heart condition as players knelt in prayer around him on January 2, and as a stunned world audience looked on.

“He’s going to be alright. I trust God that he is,” Sanders says.

He sees God working for Hamlin’s good, and for the good of our spiritually and politically divided nation. He believes the nationally televised injury that produced millions of prayers for a professional football player is a sign.

“Did you see how we came together as a country?” Sanders asks.

“(Hamlin) wasn’t Black, White, Hispanic, Asian; he was someone we all care about. We’re still together.

“It shouldn’t take tragedy for us to come together as a people. That’s what I’m on right now. I want all of us to come together and sing Kum Ba Yah,” says Sanders.

An eight-time Pro Bowl player over 14 NFL seasons, Sanders was physically and spiritually saved after a suicide attempt and an emotionally painful divorce in 1997.

Sanders writes about depression and repentance in his book, Power, Money and Success: How Success Almost Ruined My Life.

A Christian song about overcoming adversity with God’s love, “Conquerors,” by artist Kirk Franklin is part of Sander’s attempted-suicide testimony, driving his sports car off a steep cliff.

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“I hesitated for no more than a second or two, built up my nerve, and then put the accelerator to the floor and shot over the edge of the cliff to end it all.

“That beautiful, custom-made sports car blasted into midair and seemed to hang there, suspended for a split moment in time, before it nosed down and started its crazy downward plunge,” Sanders writes in the book.

Sander’s mentor, friend and pastor, T.D. Jakes, of Potter’s House in Dallas Texas wrote the forward for (Power, Money and Sex: How Success Almost Ruined My Life: Sanders, Deion: 9780849937767: Amazon.com: Books)

Sanders credits his debut coaching successes at Jackson State, a historically black university in Mississippi, to the Lord, as well as special teams coaches and players.

Sanders seeks to develop players who are smart, tough, fast, disciplined and who possess good character. “We’re implementing old-school principles that will produce professionals, not just professional football players,” Coach Prime says.

Credited with transforming Jackson State’s languishing program into backto-back championship teams, Sanders says he already misses Mississippi.

“I’m going to miss so many people at that university, among the city, who were a blessing to me, my kids, as well as the program.

“If it wasn’t for Jackson State, then I wouldn’t be here,” Sanders says.

Criticized by some for leaving a historically black college/university (HBCU) for the Pac-12 and Colorado, Sanders is unfazed.

“That was ignorant. You’ve got to understand the people who are criticizing you. I never listen to my critics because my critics have critics.

“You’ve got to understand there are a group of persons that is not progressive. They don’t want to work, to subdue, to dominate. They’re just sitting there idle, pointing fingers.

“My crowd is people who have kids, get up ready to go to work, who try to make ends meet. They get turning water into wine,” says Sanders.

Of his wife Tracey, Sanders says she is a blessing. “Trust me, she adds so much to me. People either add, subtract, multiply or divide; Tracy adds and helps me multiply,” he says.

Source: https://www.assistnews.net/ colorado-football-coach-sandersunabashed-faith/

True - 1 Samuel 18:6-7

True - 1 Samuel 2:18-21

True - 1 Samuel 20:16-17

False - 1 Samuel 21:8-9

False - 1 Samuel 22:18

True - 1 Samuel 25:3

True - 1 Samuel 28:8

True - 1 Samuel 3:2-10

False - 1 Samuel 31:12-13

True - 1 Samuel 31:2

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“If God Is Your Co-Pilot, Swap Seats!” (Max Lucado)

Psalm 86 tells us that we must learn the ways of God in order to walk in the ways of God. Jesus said, “Come to me…Take my yoke upon you and learn from me” (Matthew 11:28-29, NIV).

Walk in God’s truth, and then you’ll be in the position to receive His daily guidance. A.W. Tozer said, “Practice the truth and we may with propriety speak the truth.”

All human claims to greatness and sovereignty are pretensions. When Herod took credit for godlike powers, he breathed his last, while the Godbreathed Word grew.

A crowd, seeing someone jump to

Just For Laughs...

After starting a new diet, I altered my drive to work to avoid passing my favourite bakery. I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and, as I approached, there in the window were a host of goodies. I felt this was no accident, so I prayed...

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escape a skyscraper fire, could vote unanimously to suspend the law of gravity. What difference would that make?

We can’t negotiate God’s truth any more than we can negotiate gravity. Have the courage to ask Christ to show you what He really wants for your life—not what others want for you, but what He knows is right for you. Listen to His Word for the answers and call upon Him to show you the truth and empower you to live it.

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.

"Lord, it's up to You, if You want me to have any of those delicious goodies, create a parking space for me directly in front of the bakery." And sure enough, on the eighth time around the block, there it was! God is so Good!!

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Instinct, Motivation and Truth Time

By Jon Skillman

One of my daily devotionals (Our Daily Bread) spoke of a man and his family going on safari in Kenya. The man told of watching a variety of animals coming and going from a small lake situated in a rather arid landscape. The animals, of course, came to quench their thirst by drinking of the lake’s life sustaining water. As he observed the scene before him, he began to draw an analogy between this watering hole and what he described as our “Divine Watering Hole,” the Bible…the life sustaining water of the lake, to the Bible’s living water that Jesus offered to the Samaritan woman at the well. John 4:5-30.

Having watched a lot of nature shows I know that the lake draws all animals to its water, including some who have motives above and beyond simply getting a drink. Predators know that if they just hang around the watering hole, they really don’t have to hunt, their prey will simply come to them. Not only that, they will place themselves in their most vulnerable stance in order to get a drink…a stance that is not the best starting position to make a run for it. To make things worse, the prey’s escape options are limited by the lake itself. Oh! And one more thing, danger may be lurking within the very water that sustains them.

Unlike the animals at their watering hole we, as Christians, are at our strongest when drinking from the “Divine Watering Hole.” And unlike animals, who act out of instinct and are governed by the laws of nature, we, hopefully, act out of faith under the laws of God. It could be said that animals are guided naturally, we are guided supernaturally.

Beyond instinct, we are given a variety of abilities, among which are the ability to think, reason and reach logical conclusions. Unfortunately, these abilities are sometimes overruled by what is known as, free will, and free will provides us the ability to really mess things up. Free will opens the door to a multitude of options and motivations, some of which we may not truly understand. “All a man’s ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord.”

Proverbs 16:2. This should cause us concern and we should honestly question our motivations before acting out. Why, because our most powerful motivator is self…which poses yet another question; “Is there any freedom from our bondage to self?”

The answer is yes…and it is found in John 8:32, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

And one of the main truths of the Bible is…it’s not about me or you!

It’s all about Jesus!

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I think every one of us is preoccupied with “time” in some way. Whether we hurry and stress because of a pending deadline or dread the seemingly neverending wait for test results, it is an unavoidable reality for human beings. God alone is above and beyond the dictates of “time”. There is no past or future for the Sovereign One, only the Now.

We mere mortals, however, need to contend with the harassment of time. Not that it is always our enemy; It is sometimes kind to us. In fact, there is both a healthy and unhealthy way to approach our past and our future. As to our past, we can look back with fondness and thankfulness for our childhood or younger years OR we can ruminate around the haunts of traumatic experiences. Depending on how your story developed, you can have a healthy perspective on the past or you can “Live” in the past. That is a problem whether it was so good you cling to it and nothing today can match the previous experience, or if regrets, unforgiveness, or trauma is involved, that too can become an obsession producing triggers in todays relationships.

On the other hand, the future can be exciting or bleak. The positive thought of new adventures can produce a glorious anticipation of what tomorrow holds. On the flip side, the anxiety and worry about future peace, protection, and provision can cause many to “waste today’s energy on tomorrow’s possibility”. The truth is that no one but God knows what will happen tomorrow. We can plan for it using wisdom but that doesn’t guarantee anything! This is particularly difficult for me as someone who likes to have the future planned out! How about you?

In the end, the reality is that we only have today. Yesterday is gone, whether it was good or bad. Tomorrow isn’t here yet and we can only prepare for it to a certain point. Join me in consciously desiring to loosen my grip on yesterday and rest in the Lord’s plan for tomorrow.

“No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.” (Phil 3:13b-14)

So, don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (Matt 6:31-34)