Old fashioned hospitality seems to be disappearing from most societies quite rapidly, would you agree? While many homes used to have a ‘guest room’ which was actually a bedroom for guests other than their immediate family, that is now rare. And when is the last time guests sat around your table for a meal and an evening of simply enjoying the fellowship of friends old and new? Join me again today, back in Israel in about 840bc, with Elisha the prophet who is experiencing amazing hospitality from an unnamed couple in the little town of Shunem.
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Today’s Scripture: 2 Kings 4:8-37. Choose below to read or listen.
Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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