The three chapters in 2 Corinthians today total 55 verses and are quite a challenge to grasp all the points Paul is making. He is concerned about “those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart” (5:12). He tells them, “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation… Read More Today’s thought (September 05): “Bringing holiness to completion”
Right Thing Do we know the right things? I’m betting that nothing here is new or surprising. And yet, every one of us gets into situations where the right thing isn’t all that clear-cut. Life is complicated, and it’s messy. Many situations seem murky, maybe even self-contradictory… We know this one by heart: “So whoever… Read More Do we know the right things
Today’s thought “Let him who boasts boast in this …” (July 19) In Matthew today we read of the friction among the disciples of Jesus; this arose after the mother of two of them “came up to him (Jesus) with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him … ‘Say that these two sons… Read More Today’s thought “Let him who boasts boast in this …” (July 19)
We have an overflow of challenging thoughts in our readings today. Paul’s words that particularly arrested our attention was his “appeal to you brothers by the name of our Lord that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 1:10,11). This essential factor needs to exist among those who follow… Read More Today’s thought “That you be united in the same mind” (February 20)
Today’s thought “The eyes of man are never satisfied” (April 17) Proverbs 27 How many people do not brag about what will happen tomorrow? we should know that we don’t really know what will happen then. Though about the future, we have the Book of books which tells us about signs for the latter days.… Read More Today’s thought “The eyes of man are never satisfied” (April 17)
The Christian community with all people of the world should come to realise that Bible is full of scriptures that address wisdom. These days we looked at it with the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Wisdom. In the world we can find many Christians criticising others and when trinitarian Christians hear about others… Read More Outflow of foundational relationship based on acceptance of Jesus
Typically of Biblestudents is that they do take the Word of God seriously. They also like to look at the Bible and place it in the light of what is going on today in this world. Watching what is going on many bible-students become convinced that the return of our Lord Jesus cannot be long… Read More Looking on what is going on and not being of it
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