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Mary & Martha | Having The Right Priorities
Shared on: Jul 11, 2022
Are you anxious and troubled about many things? Are the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things entering into your heart and choking out your congregation's devotion to Christ? Well then, bring them to come to attend to the one thing which is necessary--sitting at the feet of Christ to hear his Word and lift up their supplications in prayer.
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