Salvation Is Only In Jesus

March 22, 2012

People are forever asking me if their Uncle Joe who was a good-hearted man and loved people went to Heaven when he died even though he had no apparent faith in Christ. They want to know if the man in Africa who never saw a missionary and was never told of Jesus could go to [...]

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Discipleship: A Call to Action

March 22, 2012

Recently I was having a dialogue with some brothers about the meaning of the word “disciple.” The Bible has much to say about discipleship and the word seems to be important in our understanding of how to be a Christian. Every biblical Christian wants to be thought of as “a disciple of Jesus.” The words [...]

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Seeking Relationship With God

March 21, 2012

Luke 8:4-25 and Psalm 51 Luke 8:4-15 And when a great multitude were coming together, and those from the various cities were journeying to Him, He spoke by way of a parable: 5 “The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road; and it was trampled under [...]

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Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen

March 21, 2012

Jesus walked the length and breadth of the land of Israel for over three years preaching, teaching and working miracles. He also spent time in ministry east of the Jordan in Ituraea, Trachonitis (the Decapolis) and Perea, which is, in our day, Syria and Lebanon. During that time, Jesus encountered, spoke to, healed, delivered and [...]

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Jesus is Lord

March 21, 2012

Nancy and I “met the Lord” in 1971 in a small evangelical church that emphasized living according to the Scriptures. Some might say we got “saved.” Others would say we were “born again.” These other terms are Scriptural, for sure, but not perhaps as descriptive as they should be. Words carry meaning and paint pictures. [...]

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Progressive Revelation

March 20, 2012

Deut 20:10-18″When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. 11 And it shall come about, if it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall [...]

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Syncretism: The Problem Inauthentic Christianity

June 9, 2011

2 Cor 6:14-18 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 16 Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we [...]

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Are You Captured in the Matrix?

June 6, 2011

In the 1999 film, The Matrix, the plot depicts a future in which sentient computers have taken over the world and are using human beings as energy sources to keep themselves running. The humans are living in an altered reality, a delusion that makes them think life is normal, but they are actually born and [...]

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Three Days That Changed It All

May 25, 2011

The Bible gives us a number of eyewitness accounts of the events that occurred from Good Friday to Easter Sunday when Jesus died and was resurrected from the dead. But we do not usually pay attention to the whole story. We take our cue from the movies made on the subject rather than from the [...]

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Is the Creation Story to Be Taken as Literal?

May 25, 2011

People often ask me if I believe the creation narrative in Genesis chapters 1-3 to be literal. Did it really happen the way it is written in six 24 hour periods? My answer is that I do, indeed, believe it to be a literal telling of the creation and fall of mankind. I believe in [...]

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