Author Archive: Pastor Mark

God’s Grace and Spiritual Gifts

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Much confusion surrounds this topic of gifts, ministries and callings, and much of that confusion could be greatly minimized by understanding the words scripture uses to describe them. So in this article, we mostly be touching on the meanings of these words and some of the words typical associated with them. The Grace of God – through Gifts of the Spirit Paul had a tremendous revelation of grace. God had visited him in dreams, visions and perhaps even by taking him to heaven itself in order to deposit a clear revelation of the grace of God through Jesus Christ. Paul […]

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Are the Scriptures Reliable?

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Are the Scriptures Reliable? There are three major terms one needs to understand when approaching the question of the reliability of the scriptures. These terms are Inerrancy, Infallibility and Inspiration. One common misunderstanding is that inerrancy and infallibility are the same thing. To further complicate this issue, there is no “official” and universally accepted definition for the word “inerrancy” when used in reference to the scriptures. Nevertheless, these two terms, are most often treated differently, with infallibility being a far more foundational doctrine, with far greater implications than inerrancy. Inerrancy For some, inerrancy means that the entire Bible was dictated […]

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Dichotomy or Trichotomy – What people are made of

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Dichotomy or Trichotomy… what people are made of For PDF of this article click – HERE If approached purely from a humanistic point of view, mankind is typically seen as nothing more than a physical, material beast. One, as it were, with the universe in which they dwell. This is called “monism” and in most religious circles it is rejected as completely materialistic (which of course it is). Most commonly, in the religious world, there are two additional views – that of humans being as a two part being or a three part being. These two views are known as […]

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Did Jesus abolish the Law?

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Did Jesus abolish the law? Wednesday 05/28/14 Topic: Did Jesus Abolish the Law? – a look at Eph. 2:11-17 Tonight Mark & Dave started to cover verses 15 & 16 in Ephesians 2. These are very important verses in that they are widely misunderstood. These verses if left to stand alone leave the impression that the law in it’s entirety has been completely destroyed and removed from any relation to the believer….and yet, Paul uses direct quotes from the Old Testament at least 107 times in his letters, using the Old Testament scriptures as the basis for New Covenant theology and righteous […]

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Why Blood?

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Podcast: Download ()Subscribe: Spotify | RSS Topic: Why Blood? NOTE: This article was originally posted on the ‘Under his Influence” Radio Show web page, in connection with a broadcast about the necessity of Christ’s blood in our redemption. That broadcast was on Heart Radio and was a open mic dialogue between myself (Mark Woodson) and Dave Geisler with moderator Tom Whitaker. In this article, I have expanded and acclimated it for use on this website. The link above is the original recording of the radio show aired on 03-29-14. To go to the recording of that podcast of the show, simply […]

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