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Show Don't Tell: Matthew 22:41-46
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Show Don't Tell: Psalm 61
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Show Don't Tell: Psalm 75
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Show Don't Tell: Psalm 120
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Show Don't Tell: Luke 12:49-59
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 11:20-26
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 4:10-20
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Show Don't Tell: Matthew 7:13-14
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 7:1-13
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 13:1-8
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Show Don't Tell: John 7:14-24
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Show Don't Tell: Genesis 14:1-24
Instead of saying "Abram rescued Lot from enemy kings," hear the war horns. Four kings against five, armies clashing in the Valley of Siddim, tar pits swallowing soldiers. Sodom and Gomorrah fall. And
Show Don't Tell: John 4:31-38
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Show Don't Tell: Genesis 1:6-8
Instead of saying "God made the sky," help them see the ancient cosmology. Picture waters everywhere—above, below, pressing in from all sides like the world is submerged in an infinite ocean. Then God
Show Don't Tell: Genesis 23:1-20
Instead of saying "Sarah died and Abraham bought a burial plot," let them feel the first death in the family of promise. Sarah: 127 years old. The one who laughed, who doubted, who bore the impossible
Show Don't Tell: Matthew 21:28-32
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 14:27-31
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Show Don't Tell: Mark 4:30-34
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Show Don't Tell: Matthew 27:57-66
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Show Don't Tell: Matthew 5:27-30
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Show Don't Tell: Luke 16:1-15
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Show Don't Tell: Luke 20:27-40
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Show Don't Tell: Matthew 24:1-14
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Show Don't Tell: Luke 3:1-6
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