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In late 2004 or early 2005, Tisha had heard through her sister Tara Matson about a Dallas couple, Jon and Tami Gappa, who discovered their infant son Sam had been diagnosed with cancer. The end result of a surgery to remove the tumor was that his kidneys would never regain function. For the next three-plus [...]

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The Philippian church sent gifts to Paul by way of Epaphroditus. Paul refers to those gifts as “a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God” (Phil. 4:18). It’s interesting that Paul views those gifts as God did Hebrew burnt offerings (Lev. 1).

The burnt offering, according to Edersheim, was a sacrifice of surrender. Burning [...]

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