2024 (391)

The Year of our Lord 2024

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October 10, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 8-9 Meditation Verses: 9:13-14 Receiving gifts from others should result in praise to God for the true faith of the giver and their generosity. It should also result in prayer and longing for the giver because of the amazing grace of…

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October 9, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 6-7 Meditation Verse: 6:3 This is a tough statement to process. Paul determines to give no cause for offense in anything. How does he mean that? Certainly not in his teachings, because the Gospel has offended many Jews, and his other…

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October 8, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 4-5 Meditation Verse: 4:2 Anything that brings shame, instead of hiding it, covering it, continuing in it but claiming freedom, deceiving people about it, Paul renounced it. If he could not practice it publicly because it was shameful, he did away…

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October 7, 2024

Passage Read: 2 Corinthians 2-3 Meditation Verses: 2:6-8 This is likely in reference to the man in 1 Corinthians 5, but whether him or some other brother, the point remains. Church discipline is not for the purpose of eternal rejection, but to impress on the…

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Elders

Paul appoints Titus to finish laying a foundation of Christian life and doctrine for the fledgling churches of Crete. This is what the whole letter is about, notes for Titus as he seeks to complete this task. Chief among Titus' duties is to establish trustworthy…

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