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I have long been aware of both Selina, Countess of Huntingdon and Faith Cook, her biographer, but never read anything substantial about the former or anything by the latter. Now I have remedied that and am enormously thankful I have. It is a long time since I have been so drawn into the life of…
John 17:21 – 23 “…that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in…
In his devotional comment on Ezra 7:10 – “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.” – Don Carson highlights a danger for students of the Scriptures: Ezra devoted himself to the observance of the Law. For…
“And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me”. Now, in our 13th study in this precious prayer we actually come to the first of Jesus’ specific requests for his disciples. Previously I said that there are four requests…
John 17:9-10 “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. We are now in our twelfth study in this great prayer and we have still not actually come to the first of…
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me…” John 17:6b We now come to something that is, without a doubt one of the key emphases of the contents of Jesus’ prayer – both for the apostles with him…