Monday 14 November 2016

Favourite verses and Bible stories.



As part of our Bible Sunday service a few weeks ago, the congregation were asked to list their favourite verses or Bible stories.   Here was the result. Why not get your Bible and check them out?


FAVOURITE SCRIPTURE VERSES

Genesis 1 verse 1

Numbers 6 verse 24 - 26

Joshua 1 verse 9

Psalm 23 verse 1

Verse 6

Psalm 27 verse 1

Psalm 91 verse 1

Psalm 121 verses 1,2

Proverbs 3 verses 5,6 (3 selected this)

Isaiah 6 verse 3

Isaiah 40 verse 31 (2 selected this)

Isaiah 43 verse 2

Jeremiah 29 verse 11

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Matthew 28 verses 19, 20

John 3 verse 16 (10 selected this)

John 3 verse 17

John 11 verse 35 (with “and so do I” added)

John 14 verse 6 (2 selected this)

Romans 8 verse 28

Ephesians 4 verse 32

Philippians 1 verse 6

Colossians 3 verse 1,2

1 Peter 5 verse 7

2 Peter 3 verse 18

Revelation 3 verse 20



LONGER SECTIONS OF SCRIPTURE

Exodus 20 - 10 Commandments

Psalm 23 (all of it) (2 selected this)

Psalm 139 verses 1 - 14

And more specifically verses 7 – 10

Matthew 3

Matthew 25

Mark 14 verses 12 – 26

Luke 12 verses 27 – 34

John 15 verse 1 - 17

John 16 verses 5 - 33

Acts 13

Second letter to Timothy

Revelation 21 (2 selected this)



FAVOURITE STORIES

Luke 15 : 11 – 32 The lost/prodigal son (3 selected this)

Book of Ruth story of Ruth and Naomi

Book of Esther story of Esther

Book of Job Job (God never leaves us, no matter what)

Matthew and Luke Jesus’s birth

Matthew 4 :18 – 22 calling the disciples

Book of Jonah Jonah and the whale

Luke 10 : 25 – 37 The good Samaritan



DRAWN PICTURES AND PASSAGES

Matthew 5 verse 13 – 16 salt and light

The 3 crosses