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A Walk With Jesus Through His Last Week — Monday
I certainly hope that everyone is doing well today. I pray that all of my readers (as I write, we are almost all under “stay at home” orders because of the COVID-19 pandemic) are staying healthy and maintaining strong faith … Continue reading
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A Walk With Jesus Through His Last Week — Sunday
As I mentioned yesterday, this week is sometimes known as “Holy Week” in the larger world of Christendom, so I thought perhaps it might be an interesting topic for this blog to follow Jesus along through the last few days … Continue reading
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Tagged benevolence, Holy week, Jerusalem, Palm Sunday, repentance, Triumphal entry, Zaccheus
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A Walk With Jesus Through His Last Week
Tomorrow starts a week that is sometimes known as “Holy Week” in the larger world of Christendom, because it is the week before the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus. There are many dates that we’d like to know in … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, Bible commentary, Christianity, Uncategorized
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Current Questions — The Role of Women
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve dedicated this blog space to a few of the doctrinal questions of our day. The questions have arisen not from some new evidence that someone has discovered calling into question long-settled Biblical doctrines, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, New Testament, Uncategorized
Tagged Bible, Christian leadership, church, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, false teaching, gender, grace, hope, leadership, love, men, obedience, pride, religion, roles, theology, truth, wisdom, women
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Current Questions — Authority of Scripture
There are many questions that have stirred up controversy in the religious world these days. Teachings and practices that Christianity thought were settled long ago have been brought into serious question in modern times. The sad part is not that … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, Bible, church, discipleship, faith, false teaching, God's word, Gospel, obedience, promises, prophecy, religion
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Something of How Much I Owe
As many of you know, Linda and I went to France this summer. One of the highlights of the trip for me was going to the Normandy beaches and the American cemetery, where well over 9000 WWII dead are buried. … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament
Tagged Christ, courage, discipleship, faithfulness, grace, love, memorial, obedience, remembrance, sacrifice, salvation, sin, worship
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What If?
A couple of Sunday evenings ago our Bible class began a new study on 1 Peter. As we were discussing the general circumstances and purpose of this letter, we naturally started talking about the terrible persecution of Peter’s day under … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, Church Growth, New Testament
Tagged church, commitment, courage, discipleship, faith, faithfulness, fear, heaven, hope, obedience, persecution, strength, suffering
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Family Communications, Part 6; Upon Confession & Repentance, Forgive!
In the last installment of this series of blog postings, we took a look at how important it is to confess and ask forgiveness, when you’re wrong. By the way, just in case it hasn’t occurred to you, you will … Continue reading
Posted in Bible commentary, Christian Leadership, Christianity, New Testament, Parenting
Tagged forgive, obey, pardon
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The Hidden Treasure (Matthew 13:44)
Hidden treasures were not uncommon in Israel. Palestine was / is the land bridge between many of the aggressive nations of the north and east to Egypt. Egypt was always considered a plum target, because of its power and wealth. … Continue reading →