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2Social media and this WordSmith report may help y'all find out why so many old saws really don’t cut ____
3“Cleanliness is next to Godliness” This phrase was used by Charles Dickens in his book Great Expectation but it does not appear in the _____. This little proverb is most often attributed to Scripture when it was Ben Franklin who penned it, although he probably got it somewhere else.
7Much of the world's collection of knowledge and opinion on the WWW is like the _____ leading the _____, a sign of the times, and quite a stumbling block for some
10“The road to ____ is paved with good intentions” This may be true but it’s not in the bible
11"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" is not found in the Bible, it’s does appear in ___________. But maybe he was taking his inspiration from Proverbs 22:7, which similarly observes: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.”
14Money’s not bad, but check how you feel about it. We can quite like money, but must direct our love to God, and our _________
15You have heard it said, "God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle". That is a misreading of 1 Corinthians 10:13, which actually says:“God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your ability, but with the testing he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to ______ it.”
17Seeing is _________. While The Internet Social Sites, Madison Avenue and Hollywood certainly live by this “truth”, the Christian most certainly should not. Deception is rampant in man’s heart, and the eyes are easily fooled, seeing only what they want to see
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1One of the top ten things people often think are in the Bible but actually are not is, “God helps those who help __________”
2Jonah and the "_____" is catchier (and a great catch it is), but the word Hebrew dag gadol means ‘big fish’. So the idea that we’ll ever change from ‘Jonah and the big fish is very hard to swallow
418th-century poet William Cowper started with “God moves in a mysterious way” Today some say that "God moves in mysterious ways" and Romans 11:33 comes describing God’s mysteriousness: “How ____________ his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!”
5"God helps "Those Who Help Themselves" is a favorite of Satan because it’s the ________ of what God’s word which says, that our help comes from one place. "My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.” It’s not “God plus me getting the job done.” Psalm 121:2
6God replies about self help this way “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the this cat its spots?
8Maybe the lion shall lie down with the lamb, but the Bible doesn’t say when. Isaiah 11:6 says: “The ____ will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion… and a little child will lead them.”
9Pithy Quotes are like sharp nails which force truth upon our ______
12_____? So what’s missing here? “Love of IT is the root of all, the whole, every kind of evil”, says 1 Timothy 6:10.
13"Money so they say is the root of all evil today" The words are there by David Gilmour, but what do they say about context? Without text it’s a ___
16“God forgives those who forgive themselves” The bible never speaks about forgiving ourselves. Instead, it speaks about forgiving others who trespass against __