Tag: Jesus Christ
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And in the end – worship of the world
GOOD NEWS & BAD NEWS The Gospel of John contains some Good News. Jesus Christ came into the world to save those He loves. John’s letters also encourage a growing church (in the first century) who increasingly face challenges of the self-reliant contemporaries of their world. (Sound familiar?) Some of today’s Scriptural Rerun from John…
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Looking back at The Lord’s Day
The Lord’s Day in years just past You have heard this day called Easter Sunday, Resurrection Sunday or perhaps Pascha. But today, on the 17th day of April in the year of our Lord, 2022, I would simply like to look back at celebrating ‘the Lord’s Day’ as followers of Christ Jesus have done since…
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The Heart-piercing POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT!
The POWER of the Holy Spirit in ACTS What have we observed most in Luke’s early accounts of Acts? Clearly, the further power of the Holy Spirit, which Luke also notes in his Gospel as having descended on Jesus. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a…
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A Remnant called to REPENTANCE
Repentance, or else! We don’t like ultimatums. YOU MUST REPENT, or else the Lord will do ‘this or that.’ No wonder the Prophets of the LORD were often rejected in their own land. Repentance, or else, becomes a recurring theme before the coming of the Messiah Jesus and before the long silence of the LORD…
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Protestant, Catholic & Jewish Sons of Tradition
Tradition “For you set aside the mitzvah of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.” Words of the Messiah from the Gospel of Mark 7:8 Hebrew Names Bible History of Faith vs Traditions of History In our previous Summer…
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The Veil torn on Good Friday + Witness of a story & Scripture
How does a veil torn in the Temple on Good Friday connect all Jews to Christians of the 21st century Church? Good Friday Before we turn to the actual script of this pivotal event in history, allow me to place you into a fictional Good Friday scene as one witness to what is about to…
