Tag Archives: beautiful life

Planning for the future – James 4,5

 James continues sharing God’s word with us in our reading today in ways that are elegantly simple, straightforward, and convicting.    Wrong motives – 4:3 Have we ever considered this seriously as a reason that God doesn’t answer our prayers? … Continue reading

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Hang tough – Hebrews 12,13

 The great crowd of witnesses — 12:1 Although it isn’t likely that those who have gone on before can really see what the current world is doing, the figure of speech here does motivate us to faithfulness to think that … Continue reading

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Adorning the doctrine — Titus and Philemon

In an earlier posting I outlined a possible or even probable life of Paul beyond the years reported by the book of Acts. In this suggested “history” I noted that Paul could have dropped Titus off at Crete on his … Continue reading

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