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13 mins read|03/11/20When anything other than the gospel of Christ crucified for sinners becomes the center of the parables, we exchange the Gospel for the law.
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16 mins read|03/10/20The Old Testament often seems like a long lost family--and a rather weird family, at that. How can followers of the Messiah today live our heritage in the Torah, Prophets, and Writings? Here are three simple suggestions.
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8 mins read|03/08/20Certainly, the people of Israel are being stubborn, unfaithful and untrusting but one may wonder if this issue is a deeper one. Are they afraid?
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13 mins read|03/08/20We were enemies, but because of the self-sacrificing love of Christ, we are made friends, indeed, even the adopted children of our Heavenly Father.
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10 mins read|03/08/20Jesus sits by the well as a shepherd, coming to offer this woman a life-giving stream.
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1 min|03/06/20Gideon makes a 2nd threatening promise and then follows through on both of them. We learn more about his family and what may be some additional motivation in these conflicts. The people start wanting a ruler and Gideon slips into compromise.
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1 min|03/04/20Jesus says He is distressed over a certain baptism and division will follow Him. People want to know about degrees of sinners, but Jesus blows apart all ideas of Karma. And a woman is healed on the Sabbath, but the rulers of the synagogue find it impossible to rejoice.
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9 mins read|03/01/20The Church is called to be counter-cultural, to stand out in order that the world might see and hear the truth and be brought into the Kingdom.
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13 mins read|03/01/20Paul says he would inherit the entire world, not merely a little plot of land between Egypt and Syria. This is what God is after in the Messiah: All people and the entire Earth.
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1 min|02/29/20Gideon gets some reassurance from an interpretation of a very strange dream. He and his reduced force go into battle with trumpets and jars. Why are all these victories so lopsided and how does Isaiah talk about this battle when speaking of the coming Christ?
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1 min|02/26/20Anxiety, big barns, and the folly of assuring your own soul.
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11 mins read|02/24/20But this is not a story of Jesus being taken many places. This is a story of Jesus remaining in one place and deepening in His love of the Spirit and the Father.
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