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Luke 17 begins with a warning from Jesus to His disciples. He tells them to avoid laying stumbling blocks in front of people at all costs, since it would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone around your neck than to cause a little one (a person in a spiritually vulnerable state) to stumble. Jesus then attached a practical application to the warning: rebuke your brother in sin, forgive him if he repents, even seven times a day. It was this application that caus

Poetry is special. Sometimes the rhythm or rhyme holds the reader’s attention, but always at the center of good poetry is a picture painted or an emotion provoked by the language employed in the writing. Entire wings of libraries have been dedicated to poetry of varying kinds from writers throughout human history. When God provided humankind with His own library of inspired books, He provided sections of poetry designed to offer counsel and comfort to the soul. Among the poet

Acts 2:1-4 describes a group of people who were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. The effect of the Holy Spirit filling them was that they spoke in languages that they had not previously learned. Additionally, this group had tongues of fire resting on them, serving as a visual distinction that set this first group apart in Acts 2:1-4. Who was in this group, contextually? This group is grammatically linked to the twelve apostles, including Matthias, since th