Be content with this one thing

If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed. – 1 Timothy 4:6
Put these things before the brothers, Paul says. I believe he refers to the warning about the false teachers [...]

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Hell is more than separation

I sometimes suspect the emphasis of evangelicals who still believe in hell* when they say, “Hell is separation from God.” I accept that hell is in one sense separation, and believe it, but wonder if this is a way of not talking about the eternal punishment part of it. We are so familiar with the [...]

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Paul thanked God for other believers

In Acts 28, Paul finally arrives at Rome, where he meets some believers from that region.
There we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome. And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns [...]

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