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Easter: What does it really mean?
Why is it that the Bible does not give us a day to celebrate the resurrection of Christ? There is no command to celebrate or to set aside such a day. There is no historical precedent for it in the New Testament writings after the resurrection of Christ. You have to go beyond the New Continue reading
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The Dry Trees of Easter
Before the Resurrection was His humiliating death on the cross at the urging of “his own”. “Crucify, crucify”, they shouted to Pilate, yet a few wept at the cruel sight of His humiliation. “And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him. But Jesus turning Continue reading
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What is the Word of God to us?
Jesus is the Word of God, “made flesh to dwell among us”. Only those who love the word of God while living here, the Word who is spirit and life to us, will find happiness and eternal life in His presence above. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was Continue reading
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Repentance
Here below are two passages of scripture for our meditation and instruction in the faith of Christ. I bring them to you after the Lord brought them to me this morning, to meet my own need for a deeper repentance, that I might see my sin as He sees it and that He may yet Continue reading
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Perfection: What did Jesus mean when He commanded us to be “perfect”?
We know from the context of this passage that Jesus was speaking of the perfection of love in the character, such a love that embraces even one’s enemies, just as God does with us. Such is what it means to be like our heavenly Father, who so loved the world that he gave his only Continue reading
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Coping and Hoping
Recorded this Thursday morning for my channel, “Voices In The Garden”. Continue reading
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Crucified With Christ: What does it mean?
“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” ~ Galatians 2.20 NKJV “But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross Continue reading
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Behold the Man!
“Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”— John 19:5 I’ll offer a selected passage below, from a church paper of 1899, as a devotional reading on the benefits of Christ’s humiliation and suffering for our redemption. I have found in my own Continue reading
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The Big Truth About Little Things
“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.— Luke 16:10 I came across the following passage during my devotional time today. It is especially meaningful to me because it takes me into repentance. So Continue reading
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Who is the Holy Spirit?
This is a follow-up video to my previous one on the #AsburyRevival Continue reading
About Me
A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.
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