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Posts tagged "gift"

Accepting the Gift

Old Testament Reflection

I love receiving gifts. Giving gifts is a gesture that people have used for centuries to express love, peace and forgiveness.

In this case, the gift offering that Abigail brought David changed the destiny for thousands of people in the city of Carmel. However it wasn’t the gift that brought the change to Abigail’s people – it was that the gift offering was received as acceptable to David.

Read More peace, cross, gift

Sin, Law-keeping And Faith

Read Reflect Sin controls everyone (v 22), and obeying religious laws, rituals or rites does not put us in right standing with God. How so? If it were possible for us as sinners, through our own efforts, to attain the perfection required by God, then law-keeping would have been a means of salvation. Then it […]

Read More salvation, freedom, gift, law-keeping

The Fruits of a Good Wife, Part 2

What makes a person – a woman, a man – good and noble as their character, not what they own or what college they went to or what their job title is. As the proverb says, from whatever is in your heart flows the spring of your life (Proverbs 4:23).

Proverbs 31 is a long list of examples of fruits of labour that a good wife bears.

Read More woman, accomplishment, character, gift


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