Our recent study of the command to “greet one another” (Romans 16:16) in one sense summarises the heart of all of the “one another” commands in the New Testament. Yet there is value in continuing to expound the rest of them, for in doing so
Some twenty years ago, a church member showed up at my house with some trees. To be honest, they looked more like bare sticks, but he assured me they would grow! One of those was a small oak tree, less than a meter tall. This
As we explore the various one anothers in the New Testament, I trust that we are coming to appreciate the unique fellowship to which Jesus calls his disciples. As Acts 2 makes clear, the church is a community of faith, a close community, which shares
Jesus begins this parable with a rather mundane comparison: “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground” (v. 26). With reference to these words, James Edwards writes, A more banal comparison could not be imagined. The kingdom of
