Sunday 03/25/18 Week of His Passion 2018 Share this: Reconciling the Resurrection accounts in the Gospels Christ’s Resurrection led to a confusing day, as His followers raced around the city. Skeptics point to alleged contradictions to prove Scripture wrong. Can the four Gospels be reconciled? On the surface, it seems like the Gospels can’t keep their stories straight! How many women went to the tomb? When did they leave? How many angels visited the tomb? Did Jesus appear to all the women or just Mary Magdalene? Actual, bonafide contradictions in the Resurrection reports would raise serious concerns for Christianity. If […]
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What does it mean to believe?
Believe…what does it mean to believe? John 3:16-17, “(16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (17) For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” That’s a big promise, but what does “believe” mean? In today’s world there is a lot of subjective thinking, and while that can be good, it will not help you understand a promise someone else made. What we […]
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Do James and Paul disagree?
This is a topic which has become near and dear to my heart, first as a seeker and lover of the truths of the scriptures and secondly as a pastor. I have met MANY believers who have nearly been shipwrecked in their faith or have fallen into serious error due to misunderstanding what Paul and James were actually saying. Some of this is due to “little-to-no” actual studying of the passages in question. Other times it is due to bringing to a study, preconceived ideas which blind us to what is actually being taught. Taken together with these two problems […]
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Spiritual Gifts, Ministries & Callings
Gifts, Ministries & Callings…oh my! After establishing these fundamentals, Paul breaks down into three categories, what Christians often lump all together as “gifts”. I have highlighted the three terms with their Strong’s Concordance numbers so you can easily see that all three, are different words. You may already notice that the three words used in the King James version are NOT the same words I used as the heading of this segment of the article. That was on purpose! While nearly every Christian denomination is aware of the term “gifts” in one capacity or another (a.k.a. spiritual gifts, grace gifts, gifts […]
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God’s Grace and Spiritual Gifts
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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