The Puts and Practices of a Priestly People
“So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is…
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Sustained from Falling, to the End
“I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge… so that you are not lacking…
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On Fire, On Mission
“After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And [Paul] went to see…
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The Assurance of Certainty
“Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all…
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The Mercy of the Gift
“And Mary said: ‘My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant.From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has…
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No Contending, Yes Content
“Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his…
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Living and Loving, for the Lord
“Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who…
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Make Him Obvious!
“Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. “The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he…
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Beware the Fallings
“Jesus said to them, ‘You will all fall away, for it is written, “I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.”‘ Peter said, ‘Even though they all fall away, I will not.’ ‘Simon, Simon, Satan demanded to…
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The Dichotomies of Guarantees
“In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah… And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the…
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