1 THESSALONIANS 1:6
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit The theme of the Thessalonians receiving Jesus despite affliction and suffering really struck me in chapters 1-3. It comes up again in 2:13-14 and 3:2-4. I’m not sure what these […]
LUKE 19:11
As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately You’ll have to read the parable Jesus tells in vs. 12-27, but essentially it is about three servants and how they use their masters money. […]
JEREMIAH 44:3-4
no one dwells in them, because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’ Well […]
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