Tag: Christ
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Philip: Evangelizing Christ’s Sheep Beyond Gaza
How important is Gaza to Philip’s Evangelizing Mission? What does Gaza have to do with, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” and evangelizing Christ Jesus? Quote of Jesus from the Gospel of Mark 16:15 We’ll talk of JESUS’ evangelism model begun in the Apostles and now a command to…
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The Testimony of Christ by Stephen
“But be on your guard; for they will hand you over to the [Sanhedrin; or Council] courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them. Gospel of Mark 13:9 – Reply of Jesus to Peter, James, John and Andrew…
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Luke 2 – The CHRIST of CHRISTmas
The Gospel [good news] of Luke 2: 4 Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem.. 6 While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands…
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Why DO the nations rage?
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves,and the rulers take counsel together,against the Lord and against his Anointed Psalm 2:1b-2 ACTS of the disciples of the Apostles 4: If you READ this section of Acts 4 carefully, you will discover that unlike the earlier…
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We are Beggars in the House of God
Begging for Blessing You may have had a beggar at your door recently. My new neighbor asked me if he should expect any ‘trick or treaters’ invading our neighborhood. Probably not, I responded. We generally have sweets here for ourselves that I could give away to a beggar, I assured. But he thought it might…
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Sola Protestants: 5 Differences
ONLY FIVE – 5 Sola’s of the Protestant Reformation You likely understand something of the history of the Church, especially if you’ve followed my previous Saturday posts on Doctrine or our current series in ACTS. Sola in celebration of ‘Reformation Day’ of the Protestant Church, I’ll ask: ‘Do you know what Protestants were protesting about…
