Category: Metropolitan Gleanings

Insights and meditations for the thoughtful Christian life.

Only Wise God

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(KJV)  17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen Only Wise God To understand the magnitude of the words: “King eternal, immortal, invisible, and only wise Go”…

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Is That Smoke?

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Rev 9:2 (KJV) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the…

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Meditations on Mercy

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1 Tim 1:2 (KJV) Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. Meditations on Mercy  The second element in Paul’s blessing upon Timothy is mercy. Mercy and…

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What Is Grace?

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1 Tim 1:2 (KJV) Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.  Grace, Mercy and Peace! In our fast consumption world where information assaults our senses in visual…

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Whatever Happened to Kindness (in the Church)?

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Colossians 3:12-15 (KJV) Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even…

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Freedom That Makes You Free

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John 8:36 (KJV) 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free (1), ye shall be free (2) indeed. Freedom That Makes You Free In John 8:36, the word “free” is used twice. The Greek words that were interpreted as “free”…

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