Tag: hospitality
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No Ordinary Visitors – Genesis 18:3-5
Genesis 18:3-5 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your…
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Open Doors, Wise Hearts – 3 John 8
3 John 8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth. John is wonderfully balanced. In the last letter he said, Do not receive those who deny the truth of Christ. Now in this letter he says, Receive faithful brothers, so that you may become fellowhelpers to the truth.…
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Helping People Home – 3 John 3-7
3 John 3-7 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; which…
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Freed to Serve – 1 Peter 4:8-11
1 Peter 4:8-11 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.Use hospitality one to another without grudging.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.If any man speak, let him speak…
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Hospitality Without Knowing – Hebrews 13:2
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Brotherly love does not stay inside the circle of familiar faces. It reaches outward. It shows itself in the way we treat strangers. The writer says we should not forget to show hospitality, because in doing so some have entertained angels…
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Stewards, Not Stars — Titus 1:7–8
Titus 1:7–8 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Paul continues describing the kind of man who should lead in the church,…
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A Life That Speaks for Itself — 1 Timothy 5:9–10
1 Timothy 5:9–10 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have…