And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn… He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. Luke 2:7 and John 1:11 ESV …
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Advent Day 20: It Pleased Yahweh to Crush Him
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity …
Read More »Advent Day 17: Ezekiel
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice… And I will set up over them one shepherd, my …
Read More »Advent Day 15: Isaiah
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Luke 24:44 We have to constantly be breaking the mentality that the …
Read More »Advent Day 4: In the Garden
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8 ESV This may seem like a strange advent article, but I think it’s …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan
Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan. In this part, we will explore the two sets of dialogs seen in Job 2-3 between God and Satan. These dialogs should make us question our longstanding views and begin to reshape our concepts of: 1. God and His Sovereignty 2. Satan …
Read More »Falling Forward: Reflections on a Culture of Deconstructing Christianity
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 2 Corinthians 13:5 English Standard Bible There’s a big movement within our culture of deconstructing institutions and …
Read More »How is God Justified in Sending People to Hell?
What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! Romans 9:14 CSB In the last article, we established that Hell is a place where the wrath of God is poured out on people that deserve it. I was recently listening to a Podcast on whether Hell was …
Read More »An Honest Question: Is Hell Real?
“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!… And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:41, 46 CSB I want us to …
Read More »Who Wants to be Joyful Forever?
You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures. Psalm 16:11 CSB Goodness, how easy it could be to just blow over this verse in the Bible just because it sounds so churchy it could be white noise! …
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