Perhaps, with our noses pushed so hard upon the grindstone, we might lose sight of the gifts God gives us. For one thing, he has made us a Wordworker—one among the “apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, to equip God’s people for works of service.”...
Jenkins’ goal in creating the show was to help people know Jesus better and love Scripture more. To reach that goal, he and the other scriptwriters took the gospel accounts and added plausible details about the lives of the biblical figures found there. They added backstories to well-known ...
Prophets, Pastors and Public Choices: Canadian Churches and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Debate O. Wesley Allen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Matthew in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series. Allen takes a broad thematic appro...
More importantly, the Early Church and Apostles made NO mention of the Great Pyramid being the revelation of God. The early Church fathers met and determined the canon of Scripture. They used the standard you see above in the graphic, and they made NO mention of the Great Pyramid. What fol...
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth no...
“feeling bad about myself” today is not the grace of God, but the scrolling of Instagram or falling deep into a YouTube hole, which offers its own innumerable assembly of prophets and vloggers who will share with you their vision for the good life. Thus, what your feed is most ...
Is He merely a man with some good social ideas? Is He another in a succession of Hebrew prophets? Or, is He the figment of someone’s fertile imagination foisted on all humankind as some sort of grand, cosmic joke? Biblically, there’s only one right answer. Faced with that penetrating...
It means the text of the Bible we have is the text of the Bible as it has always been. Thanks to the faithful and diligent efforts of many scribes and scholars over many centuries, the words of the apostles and prophets have been faithfully handed down from one generation to the next. ...
“a servant of Jesus Christ,” and the Greek word he used for “servant” wasdoulos.That’s a word that literally means “slave.” We find Paul describing himself as a slave of Jesus Christ in Romans 1:1, Galatians 1:10, and Titus 1:1. Actually, at no time in scripture does Paul...
Again, in the New Testament, 1 John 4:1 tells us, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.” Like many Christian teachers, I don’t believe ghosts are the spirits of dead ...