Short Definition of the Kingdom of God
Where “On Earth as it is in Heaven” happens. I just wrote this in a BIble Study workbook to answer the question “What is the Kingdom of God?”
read moreNot for the Sake of Making them Mad
Jesus did a lot of stuff to deliberately make the people around Him mad, but He wasn’t just a nuisance for nuisance’s sake. I’m reading the Chronological Bible Reading plan and right now Jesus is just going around ticking a lot of people off! He was talking to a Samaritan woman, which Jews just don’t do. He was in...
read moreJesus Completely Heals the Completely Helpless
Matthew 12:22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. It is really significant that this man is blind AND mute. Many people thought in that day (and today too) that a person could only be healed if they rejected the illness themselves. If the man could...
read moreJesus "Made Himself" a Son of God
John 19:1-11 “Where are you from?” Pilate asks. If he can’t figure out this king business, maybe he can find out where Jesus came from. The people have said that Jesus 4160 the Son of God. 4160. poieo, poy-eh-o; apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do (in a very wide application, more or...
read moreYou've Been to Sinai, Welcome to Pentecost
I’ve been reading David Stern’s Jewish New Testament Commentary and listening to Dwight A. Pryor on the subject of Acts 2 and Pentecost. WOW. text: Acts 2, John 14, Exodus 20-32 The parallels between what the Jews celebrated and taught from the traditions about Pentecost and what happened on Pentecost 50 days after the Last...
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