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The View From Heaven
Arguing divisively over things that do not matter (i.e., "Was creation completed in six 24-hour days?") is destroying God's temple. And it makes hypocrites of those who claim to seek first His kingdom.
Created 4 months ago
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Spirit-led Division
This passage is very explicit in saying that Paul mentioned the resurrection in order to cause disagreement between the two major religious groups in the Sanhedrin. Food for thought: What would we say…
Created 4 months ago
Luke-Acts 47:6 (BOOKS), Luke-Acts 47:7 (BOOKS), Luke-Acts 47:8 (BOOKS)
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The Rise And Fall of Nations
God controls the rising and falling of all nations, and NOTHING happens apart from His will. Everything has a purpose, and the working out of His plan only serves to bring Him more of the glory He deserves.
Created 4 months ago
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Keeping The Law
According to this passage, then, Messianics are not pleasing God by following Jewish customs (and forcing others to as well), but rather, they are testing Him.
Created 4 months ago
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Lacking Discernment?
In most churches today, Barnabas would be told (or it would be said behind his back) that he was gullible, lacking discernment, and, therefore, less spiritual. The irony, of course, is that he was the…
Created 5 months ago
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Healed Because of Whose Godliness?
Many people talk about this story or of Peter's shadow healing people or of some other great work God accomplished through him and follow it with some statement about Peter's great faith or his close…
Created 5 months ago
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The Gift of Understanding
You may understand more or less of the Bible than others you know, but ALL understanding of the Scriptures is a gift from God.
Created 5 months ago
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"Increase our faith!"
What we need is not more faith. What we need is to put into action the faith we've already been given.
Created 5 months ago
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Buying Friends?
A right understanding of money will guard against the temptation to hoard it. Since we can't take it to the grave, we should be open-handed in this life, giving generously to all who are in need. (To…
Created 5 months ago
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Saved Through Baptism?
Being baptized by John did not give anyone right standing with God. Rather, their willingness to be baptized was the evidence of their right standing with God. After all, "it is God who works in you to…
Created 5 months ago
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The Old Is Better?
Jesus is not saying that the Old Covenant, based on the Law, is better. On the contrary, He is coming to fulfill that covenant and to usher in the New Covenant, through His blood. What Jesus is saying,…
Created 5 months ago
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Willing or Not
This man recognized that Jesus was able to do anything, even if it was not His will to do it. His faith in Jesus is greater than most of what we see among "believers" today.
Created 5 months ago
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Thrown to the Dogs
The Jewish people here had forgotten God's covenant promise to Abraham: "Through your offspring, all the nations of the world will be blessed." When Jesus explained that the Gentiles would be blessed…
Created 5 months ago
Luke-Acts 4:24 (BOOKS), Luke-Acts 4:25 (BOOKS), Luke-Acts 4:26 (BOOKS), Luke-Acts 4:27 (BOOKS)
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Modalism Debunked
In this account we see, simultaneously, God in three Persons, not, in succession, God in three forms.
Created 5 months ago
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Baptized By Fire?
While I have known some to seek this baptism by fire (charismatics, usually), a careful reading of the text seems to show that such a baptism is a baptism into eternal judgment and not into eternal life.
Created 5 months ago
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Not What She Expected
In a time when all Israel believed the Messiah would come and immediately set up His Kingdom on earth, this must have been a painful prophecy. And yet, it was the only way that Jesus could bring light…
Created 5 months ago
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"I saw an angel!"
Every time a person in the Bible encountered an angel, the angel had to say, "Do not be afraid!" Most people who claim to see angels today have no such fear. Why is this? Because they aren't really seeing…
Created 5 months ago
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Righteous?
How can Elizabeth and Zechariah both be declared righteous, especially when we know that Zechariah is disciplined for doubting the word of God that came via the angel? Because they kept the Law. But as…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 100 [Public] Notes
2011-08-21
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2011-06-18
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2011-06-08
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Reading Plan
2011-02-13
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Earned a Badge — Completed First Reading Plan
2011-02-12
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Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan
2011-02-05
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Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference
2011-02-01
