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Working Out Salvation with Fear and Trembling in a Wealthy World

Apparently, there are people who think that when Jesus sits on his glorious throne and puts the sheep on his right and the goats on his left, that he will say to Mother Teresa, “I was hungry, and you did … Continue reading

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Deuteronomy 15, John Chrysostom, and Why the Rich Need the Poor!

This morning I read in Deuteronomy 15:4 that God promised that there would be no poor among the Israelites when God gave them the promised land. Moses then spends two paragraph-long verses just how prosperous Israel would be if they … Continue reading

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