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An Invitation to Exhortation
NOTE: Reading time of this post is longer than average due to extended passages of Scripture usually excerpted and linked being included in full. – RH Exhortation – paraklēsis – is probably not what you think it is. After Barnabas and Saul reach Pisidian Antioch we will look closer at its role in preaching AND…
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About Cortland Ohio VFD
OCTOBER is FIRE PREVENTION MONTH Cortland Volunteer Fire Department (1960’s) Chief? How are you today, Chief? (As I recall, I wasn’t even in my teens and ‘chief’ of nothing.) The question came from the always-smiling face of Herm McLaughlin who actually had been the Chief of the Cortland Volunteer Fire Department. He lived next to…
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Best NOT Preach This
Last time in our Saturday Post series on Doctrine (of and for the Church) we examined some DISTINCTIONS of D. Martyn Lloyd Jones on the Christian Life from a Jason Meyer biography, DOCTRINE AND LIFE AS FUEL AND FIRE. This Saturday we will not only continue with some of those distinctions, but I will introduce…
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Opposed to the Gospel at the Gate: Bar-Jesus
Bar-Jesus is another name for a Jewish influencer on Cypress: Elymas the magician. Acts 13: When they arrived at Cypress Cypress is Greek, NOT Roman (And certainly not Jewish) What the tourist visiting Cypress should know: Cyprus was allowed a large amount of autonomy remaining mainly Greek in culture while adopting and adapting Roman customs. No…
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Divinity, Doctrine and Denomination
As I pointed out in our last Saturday Post WE, the church, seem to have some differences dividing our approach to divinity. What does it mean to be called a “Christian?” Who are all of those ‘denominations‘ that call themselves, ‘Church?’ And what do doctrine and divinity have to do with it? Divinity God IS…
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Who shall we send? Barnabas and Saul
+ a Brief Summary of Acts [ABOVE] covers 10+ years. First Missionary Journey of Paul & Barnabas In this introduction to what Christians typically refer to as the THREE Missionary Journeys of Paul, I would prefer to get us thinking about the chronology, context and characters (yes, plural) leading these missions into all the world…
