Passion of Jesus, final events in the life of Jesus as related in the canonical Gospels. The word passion is derived from Latin passio (“suffering” or “enduring”). Compared with the Gospels’ sparse accounts of Jesus’ early years and occasional glim
Jesus and the Pharisees' harmony can end there, because that is one of the few things they did correctly, according to Jesus. Let's study the foundational problem of the Pharisees. The Pharisees gradually became so strict in their interpretation of the Law, that they were reduced to hyper...
As passages like the fourth verse of the first chapter of Romans show, the phrase “Jesus Christ our Lord” was one of the ways the apostolic church expressed its understanding of what he had been and done. Luke even put the title into the mouth of the Christmas angel (Luke 2:11). Fr...
This great utterance is a key to much of the history of the Church, and an explanation of its numberless mistakes. Moreover, it supplies an invaluable hint of the true nature of the kingdom of God. Thoma insists on the other rendering of ἄνωθεν, and compares it with the Philo...
Ultimately God and Jesus and The Holy Spirit are in Control. The devil is the god of this World. “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give...
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When I read Leviticus 23:33-44 in front of my church, I skipped verses 37-38 because many scholars consider these verses to be a type of parenthesis within the text. In fact, the New International Version and the New Living Translation put these verses in parenthesis, and I wasn’t even...
Jesus repeatedly said that His return for the Church would be a surprise. The Lord even went beyond that by saying He would return “as a thief” when believers generally won’t be expecting Him to come for them. “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of hea...
To Philemon our beloved fellow worker2and Apphia our sister andArchippusour fellow soldier, and the church in your house: 3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon’s Love and Faith 4I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,5because...
Joel Chapter 2, verses 30 - 31 (NIV)30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord....