fellowship

Clarity

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Have you ever gone swimming, only to emerge with a blocked ear? After a few minutes of futile attempts to clear it out (e.g., smacking your head in public), you abandon all hope and choose to live with muffled hearing until your ear decides to clear out the matter on its own. As is the […]

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Part 198 – The Book of Hebrews

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KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE: “exhort” – from parakaleo [para = “from close-beside” + kaleo = “to call”) – to “make a call” from being “close-up and personal”  (“personally make a call”); refers to believers offering up evidence that stands up in God’s court. Barnes on Heb 3:13 Church members should exhort one another. There may not be the intimacy of personal friendship among all

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The Need for Companionship

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We need friends. We need them as they need us. The world’s population is ever-increasing and yet it seems that people are lonelier than ever. How is this possible? I mean, you’d think bumping into more people would mean more friends, right? Yet the more people there are, the more people compress and hibernate. Are

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Church Propriety

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My church used to be a cow barn. Yup, you heard that right – a cow barn. The builders, who happened to be childhood friends of mine, purchased the parcel of land from a local farmer who had used it for sheltering animals. They modified the barn by raising it off its foundation by about

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The Value of Church Family

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I literally love the people in my church. And I’m not talking about the impersonal love that I’m commanded to exercise, either, the one the Bible clearly states we all ought to have for others. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without

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