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Grace That Is Greater
There’s a hymn entitled “Marvelous Grace” that ends with the line “Grace that is greater than all my sin.” It’s a good reminder. No matter what sins I might see, whether in my culture, my church, or my...
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What Are We Believing If We Believe In Jesus?
The Bible says in John 3:16 that whoever believes in God’s Son will have eternal life. Jesus Himself spoke those words. The Gospel writers sprinkle evidence throughout their books that Jesus was that...
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The Countdown Continues — Ten
Ten tribes, not twelve. Civil war chopped up the nation God had designated as His own, the nation that had experienced a golden age under the reins (or reigns) of King David and King Solomon. But the...
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Signs And Wonders
God is powerful and does amazing things, never more clearly demonstrated than when He sent Jesus, God incarnate, to live on Earth with those He created. God’s greatest feat, yet this is the one that a...
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Gone Fishing
You’d think once Peter and the other disciples really grasped the fact that Jesus was alive, they’d be ecstatic. Plans back on. Messiah about to plant His kingdom. Disciples next in the chain of...
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When Christ Shall Come
I realized when I was writing posts about inclusivism some weeks ago that the position of the Christian today is not so different from that of the Old Testament saints. They waited for the coming of...
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Hope And Disappointment
Some things we hope for and they don’t pan out. For example, I hoped the Denver Broncos would win the Super Bowl last year, but they lost in an embarrassing fashion. Some things we hope for and they...
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Peace On Earth
Week two of the Advent season, and my church is focusing on Peace. When Jesus was born, an angel appeared to a group of shepherds and announced that a Savior, Christ the Lord had been born that night....
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Grace That Is Greater
There’s a hymn entitled “Marvelous Grace” that ends with the line “Grace that is greater than all my sin.” It’s a good reminder. No matter what sins I might see, whether in my culture, my church, or my...
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Signs And Wonders
God is powerful and does amazing things, never more clearly demonstrated than when He sent Jesus, God incarnate, to live on Earth with those He created. God’s greatest feat, yet the one that a great...
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Grace That Is Greater
There’s a hymn entitled “Marvelous Grace” that ends with the line “Grace that is greater than all my sin.” It’s a good reminder. No matter what sins I might see, whether in my culture, my church, or my...
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Signs And Wonders
As Thanksgiving approaches here in the US, I want to keep perspective. God’s greatest gift to His creation is His Son. He is the ultimate evidence of God’s love, and He, really, should be the focus of...
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Jesus And Jerusalem
Jesus arrived in Jerusalem for one final Passover. Christians refer to the commemoration of this as Palm Sunday, and it marks the beginning of Holy Week. The thing most noteworthy about this...
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Save Now!
Hosanna! the people cried as Jesus made His way up the road to Jerusalem crowning Mount Zion. Those thousands of Jews gathered from all over the area, making their Passover pilgrimage, had heard about...
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The Old Testament Foreshadowing The New
It really makes me laugh, when I’m not groaning, when an atheist says that the Bible is made up, that the gospels were written hundreds of years after the fact, that some churchian guys just got...
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The Visit Of The Magi
I’ve heard the story of the wisemen since I was a child. At one point, one of my favorite Christmas carols was “We Three Kings.” But when I learned the Bible never calls them kings and that we don’t...
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Waiting
Photo by Tim Mossholder from Pexels When I was little I remember waiting . . . a lot. I remember waiting for my mom when we went shopping. I remember waiting for my birthday, which was hard. I mean,...
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So, Fishing It Is, Then
You’d think that after the resurrection, once Peter and the other disciples really grasped the fact that Jesus was alive, they’d be ecstatic. Coronation plans back on. Messiah, about to plant His...
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And We Wait
There’s only been one generation in all of history that actually waited for the promised Messiah and saw Him come. All the rest of us wait. The people who believed God before Jesus came, waited for...
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Who Is Jesus?
I recently heard a speaker recount a situation in which a young adult was asked, Who is Jesus? The responder started some nebulous answer, then stalled out altogether. Simply, he didn’t have a clear...
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