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This Week’s Focus Passage: Proverbs 8:22-31 ‘When He established the heavens, I was there.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Proverbs 8:22-31 'When He established the heavens, I was there.' The eighth chapter of the book of Proverbs contains one of the most glorious passages in the Word of God. It has often been spoken of in a connection with the even better known prologue of John's gospel, John 1:1-5. That prologue is well worth an often repeated thoughtful readi...

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This Week’s Focus Passage: Luke 12:49 ‘I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if

This Week's Focus Passage: Luke 12:49 'I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled.' These rather striking, or at least startling, words spoken by Jesus Himself, when He said, verses 49 through 53, of Luke's gospel account, of His strange works: I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire if it is already kindled? B...

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Psalm 149:1 ‘Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise in the assembly of his saints.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 149:1 'Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise in the assembly of his saints.' What has God the Holy Spirit indited for us here in His Word, when He has called us toSing unto Jehovah a new song?Is this 'new song,' to be something of our own devising; from our own brains, rather than something written through the inspiration of God...

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1 Thessalonians 4:18 ‘Wherefore comfort one another with these words.’

This Week's Focus Passage: 1 Thessalonians 4:18 'Wherefore comfort one another with these words.' The larger pericope in which the above statement is found, is contained in verses 13-18, of 1 Thessalonians, chapter four. It is well worth repeated reading: But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the r...

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Luke 9:29 ‘His countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.’

This Week's Focus Passage: Luke 9:29 'His countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.' This, of course, is Luke's account of the 'transfiguration.' Both Matthew and Mark have, in their particular gospels, granted the readers of the New Testament, two additional perspectives on this very singular event. Matthew and Mark each make use of the termi...

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