There is a dramatic scene in the New Testament that demonstrates the raw intensity of Jesus’ mission in its heart. In the event referred to as the Cleansing of the Temple, Jesus entered the sacred precincts of the Temple during the Passover festival and unleashed a torrent of righteous fury. As he overturns tables, scatters […]
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Dear reader, I’m going to take a more academic approach to this post because this is more of a theological issue than a sermon type of topic. If you come across a word or phrase you don’t know, check it out. This is an extremely important part of the sermon on the mount, so I
What Did Jesus Really Mean by “I Came to Fulfill the Law, Not Abolish It”? Read More »
Obadiah stands out as a featherweight contender among the vast library of the Bible, where epics unfold across hundreds of pages and prophets thunder for chapters on end. It is the shortest book in the Old Testament. It contains only 21 verses and one chapter. However, this book packs a punch that echoes through millennia
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There lies a graveyard in the shadowed valleys of human existence, where sin weighs heavily on the soul like an unrelenting shroud. Yet in the divine economy of grace, the graveyard is not the final resting place for the redeemed, but a threshold from which they can emerge. It is a place of spiritual death
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Ezekiel stands in a valley choked with death and bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14. This is not your average graveyard. It’s a blinding vision of hopelessness, where life has been reduced to its most basic form. Bleached, scattered and broken bones stretch endlessly before him, remnants of a vibrant people now reduced to a skeletal wasteland.
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