[…] Jesus describing it: 27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house,28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’30 And he said, ‘No, […]
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[…] through a very difficult time in his life, when confronted by God, he was sensitive to God’s rebuke. Job repented easily. God asked him a number of questions, and Job responds to the truth of God. In other words, Job was sensitive to God’s Word – here, direct revelation. He asks God to forgive […]
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[…] you. Therefore, we stop to pray as you told us. Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence (1 Tim 2:1 -2). For […]
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[…] even if we gain nothing. Indeed, our repenting may appear to lose us more than our sin had gained (Mt. 16:24–26; Phil. 3:7–8). And this is a test of true repentance. 7. You may repent of lesser sins for the purpose of avoiding the greater sins (Lk. 11:42). We try to salve our nagging […]
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[…] the winter. Her neighbors who supported a different presidential candidate than she shoveled her driveway after a recently very large snow. She complimented how good the neighbor -man did. Her perplexity: how do I respond to his kindness when I dislike his political position so badly? As she described his political position, she made […]
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