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A Word for the Day: Key Words from New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

The purpose of this book is to share the richness of some of the Greek words used in the New Testament and help make them practical in the reader's Christian living. Simply because words matter, the words of the New Testament matter most. And in a day when words don't seem to mean much, the need for precision in Christian doctrine and practice has never been more critical. Each day of the year a...

paroikos [and] parepidemos Building on yesterday’s reading (and again June 10), Paul elsewhere uses some of the same terms to picture that the Christian is a “stranger,” “foreigner,” and even a “pilgrim,” but this time in regard to the world because our true citizenship is now in heaven. Referring to the Jews in Egypt but extending that to the Christian, he preached to those in Antioch that the people were “strangers [paroikia] in the land of Egypt” (Acts 13:17). Likewise, in that
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