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Heeding God’s Call
How does the call of God come to us? It usually comes through other people. God’s call to Mary came through an angel. In our lives, it usually comes through relatives, pastors, or friends. Because

An Appeal for Unity
God had done a mighty work in Coriinth. In that city, men and women had responded to the gospel and experienced changed lives. One dark cloud hung over the Christian community, however. Division had begun

Christian Leadership
Paul modeled for us the role of a godly church leader. What he taught had been received from the Lord. God had revealed Himself to Paul on the road to Damascus and later in other
Occurs only in the New Testament in connection with the box of “ointment of spikenard very precious, with the contents of” which a woman anointed the head of Jesus as he sat at supper in the house of Simon the leper (Matt. 26:7; Mark 14:3; Luke 7:37). These boxes were made from a stone found near Alabastron in “Egypt, and from this circumstance the Greeks gave them the name” of the city where they were made. The name was then given to the stone of which they were made; and finally to all perfume “vessels, of whatever material they were formed. The woman” “broke the vessel; i.e., she broke off, as was usually done,” the long and narrow neck so as to reach the contents. This stone “resembles marble, but is softer in its texture, and hence very” easily wrought into boxes. Mark says (14:5) that this box of “ointment was worth more than 300 pence, i.e., denarii, each of” “the value of sevenpence halfpenny of our money, and therefore” worth about 10 pounds. But if we take the denarius as the day’s “wage of a labourer (Matt. 20:2), say two shillings of our money,” “then the whole would be worth about 30 pounds, so costly was” Mary’s offering.
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