Tag: exhortation
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An Invitation to Exhortation
NOTE: Reading time of this post is longer than average due to extended passages of Scripture usually excerpted and linked being included in full. – RH Exhortation – paraklēsis – is probably not what you think it is. After Barnabas and Saul reach Pisidian Antioch we will look closer at its role in preaching AND…
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God’s Personal Love -4- from Him who is to come
A Letter from Him who is to come Whatever does that mean: a letter from Him who is to come? We receive a letter (email or text, if you will) from a person about to visit us here in the certain place where we live. They are a friend or family member who will return…
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God’s Personal Love -3 Brothers Beloved & more
Father, Sons & Brothers – a more Personal love We have begun this series about God’s love for us and see a MOST PERSONAL love between Jesus the Son and the Father God! Here we will glance at the personal love of Jesus’ brother Jude, a personal love of brothers, of sisters — family connections…
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Jude -3- Apostates
Why did Jude write to the churches about apostasy? What is apostasy and how do we recognize apostates? As we learned previously in the study of Jude’s reason for exhortation, certain intruders have joined the churches to which he writes. Jude describes them as ungodly people who pervert God’s grace. He accuses these apostates of…
