Tag: brother
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Take a Step Back
15Perhaps the reason [Onesimus] was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever— 16no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the…
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Hope for the Prodigal
7The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.–Proverbs 28 It almost seems impossible that Jesus didn’t have this proverb on his mind when he gave his famous parable about the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. Let’s use that passage to illustrate. A father had…
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Make This Your Psalm
2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,my steps had nearly slipped.–Psalm 73 Countless times when I journey with people, they utter some version of this complaint. “Why does God allow the wicked people to have it easier and make life harder for the ones who actually love Him?” Admit it, you’ve said something…
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The Brother’s Name
5“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6And the first…