Tag: Paul
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Advent 2022: Week One, Thursday, 2 Peter 3:11-18
11. Since everything is to be dissolved, what kind of person should you be? Here’s how – a holy lifestyle, with godliness, 12. expectantly waiting for and hastening the coming Day of God. At which time the heavens will be set on fire and the fundamental elements of creation will melt away and dissolve into…
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Galatians 4 — Where Did Your Happiness Go?
For me, as a translator and reader, the frustration level Paul feels with these people in the Galatian church(es) is mounting. He has worked himself up to a place where he just doesn’t know what to do with them. He seems to try one more thing — allegory. As always, the translation is first, taken…
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Under The What?
I’ve got something to share with you I am really excited about. Back in March when the first round of COVID-19 happened, we stopped having in-person worship services. One of the tools we used to substitute (there really is no substitute for congregational worship, but doing nothing really is not an option) was a podcast…
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Advent 1, Year C–1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
The Epistle reading for the first week of Advent seems whittled down for my taste. I would prefer it take a bigger bite and include the earlier material in chapter 3 about afflictions, because the theme of afflictions matches the other readings as all the travail leading up to the Day of the Lord and…