Tag: Matthew
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What is the Gospel? What are the Gospels?
Ask five Christians, What is the Gospel? And you may hear THREE different answers, see an empty puzzled look and perhaps hear an honest, “I don’t really know; how do you define the gospel?” Go ahead: EMAIL ME your definition BEFORE you read the following OR add your definitive COMMENT at the bottom of this…
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Hail Mary, humble wife of GOD
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. Gospel of Luke 2:16 King James Version Mary an Introduction Christians, Jews and unbelievers know parts of the iconic scene unfolding in Bethlehem through a virgin Jewish mother. Today I honor Mary most appropriately by retelling her story…
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The Holy Spirit IS that I AM
The Holy Spirit IS. I am the Spirit of God. I am the LORD. The HOLY SPIRIT of Trinity Who IS God? It’s a question we all ask and a familiar question asked by many souls before us. Moses said to God, “If I go to the Israelites and tell them, ‘The God of your…
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Jesus Christ Lord – 3 Christ of the Christian Church
Christians of the early Church proclaimed Jesus Christ Lord confessing, “JESUS is Lord.” So far, we have been reminded that GOD is One – that is: Father, Son and Holy Spirit – Eternal (before all time and and after all time ceases to exist) – separated from His creation (including creatures), that is: Holy. Previously…
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Prophesying the unseen future
Acts of the Apostles 21: Dr. Luke continues his account of their return to Jerusalem and Paul’s stay with Philip the Evangelist in Caesarea. Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied. And as we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and…
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King for a Common Era Holy Week 5
KING jesus! KING jesus! The Prophet who drove the money changers out of God’s Temple HAS RETURNED! Holy Week in the year of our Lord 30 Without noting several significant private events and conversations of this holy week, including Jesus’ celebration of the Passover meal with the Twelve; let’s look once more at the witness…