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The Old Testament was the only “Scripture” available to the first Apostles. Paul, as a teacher and lawyer, used it to prove that Jesus was the Messiah to the Jews. Paul proved Jesus was Messiah to the Gentiles by signs and wonders. The Old Testament scriptures would have had no meaning...
Spirituality is a quest that makes an impression on you through the strength of your faith, spirituality is basically not of our physical realm, it concerns our souls and what their agendas might happen to be, if you search out your particular definition of spirituality with this idea in the...
One thinks of God’s Word ringing out in Genesis 1, calling the universe into being through his word. And we think of John 1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.” Christ does not merely speak ...
Scripture says the disciples later came to Jesus urging Him to eat and He responded by telling them, “I have a kind of food that you know nothing about… My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing His work” (v. 32-33). True nourishment comes...
This need so many of us have to constantly seek out new types of self care reminds me of the Scripture:Seek the Lord while he may be found.(Isaiah 55:6) There is absolutely a time and a place for this kind of spiritual quest, but if I’m being honest, there are times when I’...
Jesus said, "Get out of my way, Satan! You aren't thinking the way God thinks but the way humans think."Good News TranslationBut Jesus turned around, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get away from me, Satan," he said. "Your thoughts don't come from God but from human...
Scripture says, “Give, and it will be given to you.” Your giving is what sets the blessing of God into motion in your life. Your giving is a spiritual seed. In the natural, when you plant an apple seed, it doesn’t just grow a single fruit. That one seed grows into a tree th...
Where does God ever say to go to a church, temple, or synagogue to know Him, find Him, and find salvation? He had thousands of years and 66 books of Scripture to tell you to do this. But He didn’t. Why? What does He say instead?
and here are 12 articles about it. But then I got sick and people started using scripture against me as ways to explain my suffering or justify my pain as part of God’s divine plan. And I didn’t really have a rubric for how to handle that. I love God, I love the Bible, I lo...