Tag: Gospel
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Did Jesus Need to Be a Real Human?
7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.–2 John The Apostle John faced an earlier form of Gnosticism affecting some of the churches. One of the features of this heresy was to promote that Jesus didn’t really come in the flesh,…
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God’s Wider Tent
6This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.–Ephesians 3 Promises were once made by God to Abraham and his descendants. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great,…
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Don’t Give Up!
9And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.—Galatians 6 I once pastored a slowly-ending small church for its final 10 years. And during some of those leaner, depressing years various people questioned why we still existed. I remember church meetings when…
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A Tale of Two Kings
10Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.–Exodus 11 Today’s chapter served as a warning for Pharaoh concerning the dreadful 10th plague. I want to offer a contrast. The king in Jonah’s day was just as…
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Which Son Are You?
3He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.–Proverbs 29 This proverb links with a parable of Jesus. So let your mind travel to Jesus telling the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. His crowd WAS WITH this proverb. The older son in the parable was…
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New and Reconciled
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting…
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The Smell Test
15For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life.–2 Corinthians 2 I am the primary cook in my house. And this means that I need to know…
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Two Tensions with Thomas
24Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand…
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Seeking and Saving
5And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” 6So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. 7And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is…
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4 Thoughts on Hell
19“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22The poor man…
