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Continuing Reform in the Church
Changing one word in the New Testament could help the church reform itself and redefine its mission. But will anyone listen? Late in the twentieth century, popular study Bibles began...
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Love as Good-Will
Agapē-love is a choice we make. We make it because we admire and respect a person, and thereby become self-denying in our devotion to him or her. This is often the basis of the marital...
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Do You Have a Radical Message?
Mark 1:1-9 I think I have figured out why John the Baptist was such a radical person. Think about it. Who were his parents? Elizabeth and Zechariah. Zechariah was a priest, and it’s a lot of...
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The Way God Operates – Reinforce the Positive
2 Cor. 1:17-21 My first title for today’s blog was – Do This and Don’t Do That – but I decided it would go against what the apostle Paul taught was the way God operates. It also reinforces the...
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Dry Bones – My Newest Book
Yes, I have fallen off the edge of the earth…but I finally made my way back to this blog. It’s not like I haven’t been busy. Long story short – about two weeks ago I released the ebook version...
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The Gospel of God
Mark 1:9-15 I can remember, as a teenager, contemplating this gospel lesson and being a little confused. It says, After Jesus came out of the temptations in the wilderness, he came to Galilee,...
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A Replacement Covenant
John 2:13-22 – 1 Cor. 1:18-25 Has anyone started their spring cleaning yet? We had a couple of good days last week, so my wife and I cut down our decorative grass and burned it with some...
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Should Women Preach?
1 Cor. 11=2-19 I provided this interpretation from St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians by request to a friend who was being strong-armed by a Bible-thumping contact concerning why women...
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A Serpent on a Pole
John 3:15 & Numbers 21:4-9 Many people of the 21st century certainly have an unreasonable fear of snakes. Historically, serpents and snakes represent fertility or a creative life force and...
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Thank you for following
Google has notified me that my prayingthegospels website has been hacked and there is potential for spreading malware. The cost to repair it is more than I care to spend to keep it going, seeing that...
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