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Love, love, love — 1 John 1-3
Today’s reading will take us through the first three chapters of John’s letters. This is the apostle John that we’re talking about as the writer of this and the next two letters (2 and 3 John). As you’ll notice as … Continue reading
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Tagged church, faith, faithfulness, false prophets, false teaching, forgiveness, holiness, hope, judgment, love, persecution, salvation, sin, walking in the light
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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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Tagged abundant life, beautiful life, Christ, christian faith, church, comfort, covenant, disciple, discipleship, discipline, discouragement, divide, division, doctrinal controversy, doctrinal matters, encouragement, example, faith, faithfulness, false prophets, false religion, false teaching, family, generosity, generous, heaven, home in heaven, household of God, immoral, immorality, jew and gentile, Jewish, jewish messiah, kingdom, kingdom of god, kingdoms, loyalty, money, parable, perseverance, praise, prayer, sexual immorality, sexual morality, sexual purity, sexuality, spiritual, spiritual reality, suffering, Temple, Temple of God, temptation, temptations
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Self-inspired prophets — Ezekiel 13-15
As a minister of the Gospel I am often asked rather difficult questions. I don’t say that they are difficult because they depend on a knowledge of the original language or ancient backgrounds or even some complicated theology; no, these … Continue reading
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Tagged corrective, faithfulness, false prophets, punitive, whitewashed
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False hope versus real hope — Jeremiah 28-30
Few things are harder to deliver than bad news. Few things are better to deliver than good news. Jeremiah had been the messenger that people had wanted to kill, and now that the bad news had happened, there were plenty … Continue reading
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Tagged false hope, false prophets, hope, Remnant
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Books and THE Book
I love books; I always have. There’s something almost magical about opening the cover of a book and looking inside for an escape from the ordinary or sit at the feet of people with something interesting to say. My day-off … Continue reading →