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Before he was the rich ruler who knelt before Jesus, he was a hungry boy learning what enough meant.

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Cream antique-style cover for The Providence by Quinlan Motley, framed with brown corner ornaments and featuring a six-petal botanical emblem above a gold signet ring with an amber seal.

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What if the thing you built to protect everyone became the thing you could not surrender?

In first-century Jericho, a hungry boy becomes an honorable merchant and trusted ruler. The better he becomes at protecting others, the harder it is to tell where stewardship ends and control begins.

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