Setting the Stage for the Divine Drama
On Sunday we carefully considered the exhortation that Peter gives in 2 Peter 1:5 which says: “Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,... [ ... ]
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