Tag: thessalonians
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Sanctification and your Walk Toward Holiness
WHAT IS SANCTIFICATION and WHY DOES IT MATTER? Walking instructions to please God more SOUNDS LIKE GOOD FATHERLY ADVICE, doesn’t it? Allow me to tell you a story about a letter. ONCE UPON A TIME there were some gentile pigs (as Jews supposed them to be) who having fled their straw and stick houses to…
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Not ME – the deception of SIN
“Not me,” we boastfully sang out as children. We gleefully sang each verse of the children’s song so familiar we knew the continuous scratches in our 45 rpm record. Who’s afraid of the BIG BAD WOLF? — a story also told on our little black and white television and eventually in living color by Walt’s…
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Hot Topics from Galatians #2 – Apostasy
Apostasy appears throughout the Holy Bible when God’s people become unholy. Roger@TalkofJesus.com HOT topic #2 – apostasy Although Paul does not specifically name apostasy for the Galatians he will when writing to the Thessalonians. [Circumcision may be a HOT Topic of the flesh of 2023 CE, but this physical SIGN from a broken covenant was…
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Three Weeks in Thessalonica- Acts 17
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. Acts of the Apostles 17:1 ESV Luke summarizes an 80-90 mile [~130 km] journey from Philippi by these apostles of Christ in a single verse. ~ A.D. 50 – Philippi to Thessalonica (by land)…
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Therefore encourage one another, members of Christ
How do your encourage one another? Beloved brother in Christ, dear sister in our Lord — encourage one another. This is the message of the Apostle Paul to the Church. And recall Jesus’ new Commandment to ‘Love one another as I have loved you. Agape love must be both active and personal in the believer…
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Have you taken a minute for God?
Do you pray without ceasing? (Of course you don’t.) I must confess that I don’t. Scripture 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Original talkofJesus.com post
