Week 22 — WEDNESDAY
We look one more day at the possibility of being saved from being babes in Christ. This passage is compelling: “so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men… Rather, speaking the […]

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2008-05-02 Fri 5:15a — Guatemala City
Yesterday (Thu)
Visiting Olga (our secretary) and her family to see how she is recovering from the operation on her foot, the doctor told her that she’s progressing well. He’ll operate again on the 30th of May, removing the screw in her foot. Then she’ll be […]

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Week 36 — THURSDAY
“Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord” (Phil. 3:1). This was sound, for very, very often you cannot rejoice in anything save in the Lord. You cannot squeeze a drop of rejoicing out of your circumstances, your prospects, your past, but you can always rejoice in the Lord. Habakkuk found that out:
Though […]

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Week 36 — TUESDAY
A passage akin to the last one: “And I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself shall come also” (Phil. 2:24). This trust that he would shortly come to them was never fulfilled. Was it then an illusion? No, for the phrase “trust in the Lord” […]

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Week 26 — MONDAY
This last passage introduces us to another: “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you” (Phil. 2:19). This verse introduces us to the word “hope”—a word which the ancients distrusted and repudiated. The […]

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