Giving up is too easy
Some sobering words from Chris Green as he comments on 2 Timothy 4:10
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Baptise, then teach
Matthew 28:19 has a command ("go and make disciples"), followed by two participles: "baptising... , and teaching...".
Here's France again:
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And he shall reign for ever
This coming Sunday, I am preaching on the closing verses of Matthew's gospel, Matthew 28:16-20.
Here's R T France: ... Enjoy!
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The Spirit leads us into truth
I've been re-reading John 16:12-15 again. To remind you, here's what it says:
I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
Not the righteous
Every Christian believer will, at times in their life, feel the weight of the fact they are a sinner. Perhaps they have just done something that proves to them, and they fear proves to others, that they are a failure before God and before others in the church.
CS Lewis on the apostle Paul
Here is CS Lewis, talking about why it is that people like to undermine St Paul whilst maintaining that they follow Christ.
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First Things
A number of us heard an extremely helpful talk this morning from Hugh Palmer, rector of All Souls Langham Place in London. He reminded a group of us, all in church leadership or pastoral ministry of some kind, to keep first things first.
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To this you were called
Ed Clowney again:
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The slave who suffers unjustly
Ed Clowney makes a brilliant comment on 1 Peter 2:18-20. Peter is teaching slaves how to react when they are punished, or suffer, for no fault of their own. Indeed, they may be suffering because they have done something good. Clowney says this:
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The main line of 2 Corinthians 8-9
Paul Barnett has a very helpful paragraph in his commentary in the NICNT series in which he charts the main line through the 8th and 9th chapters of 2 Corithians:
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