Jesus Christ

  • The Analogy of the Gate Breaker: Dealing with the Preliminaries, Part I

    “…upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it” (Matt 16.18; NASB). INTRODUCTION: Admittedly a few things have caught my interest of late forcing my fingers to the keyboard. The matter that I want to begin to introduce today will be developed over a few posts. I…

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  • Personal Musings of Psalm 16 & Acts 2: Do they apply to David and Jesus or Just one of the Two?

    INTRODUCTION: Biblical typology has been a subject of particular interest of mine for sometime. For those unfamiliar, the study of Biblical types is in reference to various symbols, motifs, or types that serve as shadowy representations of an anti-type. As a prefix in Greek “anti-” has the primary meaning of “instead of, or, in exchange…

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  • Introduction If a man were to undertake a proof that triangles had three sides, and he was making heavy weather in getting his point across, there … Tenured Historians of the Golden Calf A wonderfully true assessment of the facts of reality (past and present) by the loveable pastor of Christ’s Church, Moscow, Idaho, Douglas…

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  • Christian Life as Dictated by the King of Kings: A Prelude to Easter

    “Do not be excessively righteous and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?” (Eccl 7.16; NASB)1 “Take care not to practice your righteousness in the sight of people, to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven” (Matt 6.1). INTRODUCTION: We are closing in…

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  • Purchasing Swords to What End? The Second Half…

    “But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and a whoever has no sword is to sell his cloak and buy one…They said, ‘Lord, look, here are two swords.’ And He said to them, ‘It is enough.’” (Luke 22.36, 38; NASB).1 INTRODUCTION: So did Jesus tell His…

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