Tag: father
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Ministers of Christ: Faithful Stewards – 1 Corinthians 4
4 Let a man so account us as the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 1 Corinthians 4:1 21stCenturyKJV The Apostle Paul has been making his case as the architect of the Corinthian church. .. you ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries…
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‘You’re NOT MY Father!’ – the prodigal C.E. Evangelical
‘You’re not my father,’ the young woman yelled at the top of her voice as her mother tried to take control of the situation. (The prodigal teen might just as well been a son rejecting the authority of his father.) Our Family Prodigal Most Christians are no doubt familiar with the scenario of Jesus’ parable…
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God our Father estranged from Trinity
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.. Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 1:3 ESV The Trinity and Doctrine of the C.E. Church ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ..’ + FOCUS ON…
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The Hour Is Come – Glory to the Son AND the Father
Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer of intercession begins simply and humbly. Even from the confines of a dark upper room in Zion which Judas has now left on the eve of Jerusalem’s great darkness, Jesus looks up to the light of a glory the Son once had – the glory of the LORD God our Father…
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Father, the hour is come
Jesus uses ‘Father’ as a relational approach to God, just like the trust which the boy Jesus surely must have had with Joseph, husband of His mother Mary, many times. Yet what does this mean to a disciple of Jesus’ teaching to address the Lord God as Father? Father, the hour has come There’s a…
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In case you missed it, Church..
“that you also love one another! This is the NEW COMMANDMENT of Jesus. The Lord Jesus does NOT instruct followers to ‘love the world’ (as God so loved-the world…), but HIS first NEW commandment is to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Jesus asks the Apostles who have been together for three years as a church, iterate followers…
