Category: Wellspring of the Word

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord. From Haggai 1: 1-8, NRSV After their return to Jerusalem from their exile in Babylon, the Jewish people met with resistance from…
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For we are slaves; yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to give us new life to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem. Ezra…
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Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God: the cost is to be paid to these people, in full and without delay, from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province Beyond the River. May the God who has…
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‘Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of those among you who are of his people—may their God be with them!—are now permitted to go up to Jerusalem…
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. From Isaiah 55:6-9  NRSV The prophet Isaiah is speaking to any who will listen, to encourage them to repent of their sins and to seek God’s forgiveness. It is probable that many would…
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In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ, which he will bring about at the right time—he who…
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But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced…
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But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift. The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come to the…
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Without any doubt, the mystery of our religion is great:He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels,proclaimed among Gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory. From 1 Timothy 3:14-16 NRSV In writing this letter to Timothy, Paul was aware that it could be some time before he was able to visit…
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