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A few days ago someone shared that she is unable to conduct her business without resorting to bribery, something she knows is wrong. The teaching in church makes her uncomfortable as this makes feel her unworthy. She at times stay away from church but returns because she finds comfort there, although she feels “thick-skinned”, hypocritical, …
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FELLOWSHIP1 John 1:1 – 2:2 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” “Fellowship” is the word used to translate “koinonia”. Joseph Henry Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament defines it …
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Yesterday in church we discussed the letter to Philadelphia in Revelation and there the same phrase was used as in the letter to Sardis: “I know your deeds”. I had pointed out in a previous discussion that there was no elaboration, no further details. The sense of the assertion is that nothing more needs to …
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The God of JacobGenesis 27-28 “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.” It is very instructive to note that God never (well, I have not done a thorough research but based on what I remember having gone through Genesis last year) complained about the shortcomings of Abraham …
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Luke 9:21-27 I had a session yesterday discussing this passage (2022 Week 34). It was revealing, as I needed to clarify my view that as Jesus told his disciples about the realities of his mission and the path he must walk (v22), he then went on to say that whoever wants to be his disciple …
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THE GOD OF ISAACGenesis 25 – 26 “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.” I can’t say that God commonly instructs us as directly and specifically as he did …
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A few days ago, during my regular session with someone whom I have been having weekly discussions over the weekly devotional guides that I have been writing, he told me that he usually spends some time before the session was to start to go over the guide and answer the questions, to prepare for our …
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“What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life. Jesus asks, ‘Do you love …
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THE GOD OF COMPASSIONJonah 1-4 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.” God’s relationship with Jonah is truly fascinating. Jonah knew God to be “the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the …
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