We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure." Paul's hands were…We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure." Paul's hands were rough from tentmaking while the Corinthians admired polished speakers. Notice he doesn't say he ignores the insult. He answers it with blessing, and that costs something. Who said something this week that you're still rehearsing a reply to?
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They knew him when the bread broke
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Father, you fed us in the wilderness, and now you set a new kind of bread before us. Teach me…Father, you fed us in the wilderness, and now you set a new kind of bread before us. Teach me to receive what this season holds without grieving what has ended. However you provide, it is still your hand, and I am still fed.
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