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Jesus washing a disciple's feet demonstrates how believers should love and serve one another
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Loving One Another in the Church

Believers in Christ belong to each other as members of his body, with each member being interdependent on the others. They all share God’s love, and that love is expressed in many ways. How they relate to each other within the church is important to the Lord, and that’s why the apostles admonish us in every one of their letters on how to love our brothers and sisters. Many of these admonitions are expressed as “one another” or “each other” commands.

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Those who flogged Jesus after his trial were guilty of sin, but the Jewish religious leaders who handed Jesus over to the Romans committed the greater sin.
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Are all sins equal before God?

The early Christian church fathers all acknowledged that some sins were greater than others. But within the last half century a popular belief has developed among Christians, that God sees all sins the same. But is this biblical? And how did this belief come about?

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Bright light of the sun shining beyond high trees, flying birds, and very high clouds, suggesting that God and his ways and thoughts are higher than anything.
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God’s ways are higher than ours

God is transcendent and exists beyond the physical universe we live in. His ways are higher than ours and his thoughts are high above ours. But in what way are his thoughts and ways higher? Can we ever hope to understand him? Do his ways even make any sense to us? Or does he operate by a completely different logic as some Bible teachers claim?

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Hosea buys back his wife from slavery, symbolizing his plea for the Israelites to return to the Lord.
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Let us return to the Lord: Hosea’s plea

During the 8th century B.C.  God sent the prophet Hosea to the house of Israel. Hosea’s mission was to call the people to repent of their idolatry, cruelty, and injustice, and to return to God. His impassioned pleas to this wayward people reflected his own tragic relationship with his wife, who he was trying to bring back from a life of adultery and prostitution.

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Person praying in a darkened church sanctuary, wondering how God will answer their prayer
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How God Answers Prayer

Jesus taught that God hears and answers our prayers because he cares for us. But how does God answer prayer? In other words, how do we know when he is answering? Does he always answer in the way we expect?

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King Solomon writing book of Proverbs which provides a major path to wisdom for anyone who reads it.
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Paths to God’s Wisdom

Life is so full of challenges and difficulties, but also many opportunities. How do we make our way through this world and choose the best path with all of the perils and obstacles in our way? God has given us intelligence to solve problems and find answers to our questions. But we need more than intelligence to succeed, flourish, and to live a safe and fruitful life that pleases God. For those, we need wisdom.

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Young girl reading Bible and praying, showing devotion to God and pure and undefiled religion.
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Pure and Faultless Religion-James 1:27

Throughout history misguided religion has been the source of much evil in the world. We find strange, questionable, or fruitless practices even among Christians. Is there such a thing as pure religion? The Bible says that there is, and it’s described in James 1:27.

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Jesus chooses his disciples and teaches them, illustrating a type of election.
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Who are the elect in the New Testament?

The word elect generates a lot of discussion and debate in the Christian church. Both Jesus and the apostles use the term in their teachings. So, who are the elect in the New Testament? The term “chosen” is used even more in the Bible.  Are the elect and the chosen the same?

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The prodigal son repenting before his father and asking for mercy.
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Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son

The parable of the prodigal son is perhaps the most touching of Jesus’ parables. It’s the story of a wayward son and his reconciliation with his father. Jesus told it to illustrate how a sinful person is reconciled to God. But it just rebellious and irresponsible people that need to hear this? Or does the story relate to everyone?

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