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What is a benediction? Where did it originate and why is it the most appropriate closing to this or any letter? Perhaps you have heard a benediction or two, in Latin or another language, words sung closing a worship service. “So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will…
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13:1 ἡ φιλαδελφία μενέτω [menō philadelphia menō] Philadelphia? ‘Wait,’ you say. Philadelphia – stay in Philadelphia? If your familiarity of the New Testament extends beyond the Pennsylvania ‘city of brotherly love’ in the U.S., you may recall the importance of one of the seven churches mentioned in Revelation. Not that Philadelphia either. The author of…
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Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees Hebrews 12:12 NET The author of Hebrews assures us: “We have a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us;” therefore do not grow weary and lose heart. Life’s race shall not be to the finish of death, but to our completion in eternity. In Christ we have…