Born of Fire
Get PDF Version Here Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace”… “They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good …
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Download PDF version John 4:35-36 Don’t you have a saying, “It’s still four months until harvest”? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper …
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Download PDF version Luke 14:13-14 “but when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot pay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous” Background In the middle of Jesus’ ministry there was a mix of people following him …
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(pdf version: Galatians 6:7-10 (9) Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up Background The churches of Galatia were special to Paul for a number of reasons. First, they were started because of him, so he had a fatherly …
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Ok, I've resisted. I really have. Every blog, twit, news article is covering what promises to be the biggest story, or the biggest farce since OBL (who I resisted writing on too). I'm stuck though... feeling an obligation to respond, but in some respects, also feeling I am wasting my time even writing about it. …
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I had dinner with a friend of mine the other day at Bistro Boudin, a delightful place right on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. While the Dungeness Crab Cake sandwich was good, the Apple "Upside Down" Sourdough Bread Pudding was, in a word, orgasmic. The food, however, was not the main thing I took away …