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The Joy of Genuine Community

They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to…

Leading to Peace

We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. I Thessalonians 5:12-1 ESV In one of Paul’s earliest letters, he addresses the Thessalonian church about their life together. It appears from the sources that he had spent a…

Grace for Glitches

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, ‘See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us. Let us go the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.’ And he answered, ‘Go.’ Then one of them said, ‘Be pleased to go with your servants.’ And he answered, ‘I will go.’ So he went with them. And when they came to…

Placed on a Pedestal

The famous 18th century economist, Adam Smith, uses the illustration of a common woolen coat, owned by many of his contemporaries in the cities of Great Britain. In considering the hands that went into making and marketing the coat, he mustered an impressive list of contributors. Such a list would include the sheep farmer, the sheep shearers, the spinners of wool, those…