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Acts 13.2 – Sailing from Antioch
ON OUR JOURNEY AHEAD from Antioch I’ll show you a 21st century view of Paul’s missionary journey from GOOGLE EARTH guided by brief scripture for each part of Paul’s first missionary journey. What do you know about Antioch? In my introduction to the first missionary journey of Paul we introduced you to some representative faces…
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Denominations / Why can’t we all just get along?
It’s a great question isn’t it? And from this street-level philosopher we might extrapolate questions like: “Why can’t all the church just get along?” or “Why can’t churches of ALL denominations just get along?” or “Shouldn’t OUR church teach tolerance of all poor street philosophers and inclusively preach THEIR philosophies from every religion?” THEIR Two-faced…
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Syncretism – a little leaven added to Christ’s Church
Leaven & Syncretism In an earlier Saturday Post in this series I coined the teaching, preaching and study of Everythingology – definition: 1. Endless study of everything; 2. Theoretical theology of humanity as god. Today our focus turns toward the ‘isms‘ applied to the Church. Specifically, syncretism is form of everythingology stirred into the beliefs of Christians…
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James – a Greater Thunder and a lesser king
We know this about Jesus’ Apostles: twelve followed the Lord Jesus for three years .. everywhere. One of the twelve betrayed Him, but three Apostles were closer to Jesus than any man or woman born of this world Peter, James the Greater, and John – an inner circle of the Twelve. You probably already know…
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Is the CHURCH still Christian?
What makes a church Christian? Can we tell from it’s SIGN on the DOOR or internet invitation? Does a traditional denomination make a church Christian? OR does its NAME etched in its brand guarantee preaching of Biblical Christianity? Defining & Refining CHURCH Labels As we observed last time concerning labels like ‘evangelical Christians,’ labels don’t…
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Predictions of Prophets and missions of gods
Cover photo: statue of Emperor Claudius as the Greek god Jupiter. Some Prophets from Jerusalem Now in those days, some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. ACTS 11:27 Legacy Standard Bible A believer in Christ, follower of a false prophet, worshiper of an ancient god or iconic contemporary might easily miss the significance of…
