Tag: apostle
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5 friends, a few mentors and family
Paul – Barnabas and other Friends Recalling our journeys with friends How many friends have you had in this brief journey of your life? In the cover photo from my copy of “Friendship” Emerson suggests that we miss much and mostly undervalue those dear souls we briefly encounter in life. Acts of the apostles’ friends…
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Who is this Saul, Apostle to the Gentiles?
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” Saul: a Jew of Some Reputation We are familiar with Saul the first King of Israel, ultimately killed in battle then replaced by David. – שָׁאוּל His Hebrew name šā’ûl means ‘desired,‘ however Saul of Tarsus was not the ‘hebrew of hebrews’ that any follower of The Way…
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Matthias – Scripture fulfilled in Jerusalem – מַתַּתְיָה
Choosing Matthias And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 NASB20 Matthias fills a position of an Apostle from off the bench (so to speak) as a substitute for Judas who had betrayed Christ and then took his own life. This new Twelfth Apostle gets little mention as…
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