Category: Church
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All things were made through him. Studying John 1:3
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.-John 1:3 John 1:3 is speaking to the divinity of Jesus. All things were made through him. All means all. The ground, the trees, the sand of the beaches, the stars in the sky, the air we breathe, the…
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Apple juice for communion? Why we can’t do communion our own way
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats…
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Late evangelist Ravi Zacharias found to have committed sexual misconduct
Ravi Zacharias was widely considered the greatest Christian apologist of the past generation. Zacharias died in May at the age of 74 after a brief battle with cancer. In recent months, accounts of a scandal which arose during his lifetime have again resurfaced. Background In December of 2017, Christianity Today ran an article where Zacharias…
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Genesis 1 and John 1: the new creation Jesus brings
On the night before he was crucified, he told his disciples to love one another, and he called it a new commandment. In the closing sections of the Book of Revelation, John talks of seeing a new heaven and a new earth. He records Jesus saying that he’s all things new. (Rev. 21:5). When we…
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Meaning of the bronze serpent in the Bible
In Numbers 21, the Israelites experience victory over the Canaanites but soon fall back into grumbling and complaining. God brings a plague of snakes upon the people. It’s a divine judgment. Their grumbling against God was to their downfall. But the people beg for mercy. And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and…
Josh Benner 