Tag: alexander
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Returning to seven servants in the Spirit
Acts of the Apostles 21: 7 We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. 8 Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. Returning to the Church…
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Asia – Let’s Not Go There – Acts 16
The importance of this juncture in Paul’s journey, now with Silas and Timothy, cannot be overemphasized as these apostles are sent out beyond Asia into all the world of Euro-Asia. Asia – the BIG picture Growing up geographically-challenged (as my 5th grade teacher surely would have confirmed) in a small village far distant from Paul’s…
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Covenant and Truth – 5
I prefer the company of a confessed sinner to that of an unconfessed christian hypocrite. No witness is more damaging to the church than the loud christian proclamation of a hypocrite. The world hates true followers of Christ and the church, but unbelievers use these self-appointed self-righteous spokesmen for the faith as excuse to continue…
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Conquered and the Conquerers
Jesus, Son of Man, comes among us with a perspective of history of another dimension we can scarcely comprehend: time. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. Before Abraham was, I AM. Remarkable statements! A perspective of history which can only be viewed outside of our dimension of time. Never-the-less,…
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The Beatitudes and the Multitudes – Introduction
You may not have thought of the beatitudes as a teaching related to preparation for Christmas (Advent), but by intention of the Spirit that is exactly what is on my heart. The usual Christmas liturgy of church begins just after the following genealogy of Jesus Christ (which we tend to skip over, just like those…
