Category: Commentary
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Popular pastor John Ortberg resigns from church
John Ortberg is a popular Christian author and has spent the last 17 years as the pastor of Menlo Park, a megachurch in the San Fransisco Bay Area. Before that, Ortberg had served as the teaching pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago. But today, Ortberg announced his resignation, effective August 2. The…
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John 3:16 and why it’s the greatest verse in the Bible
Our era has twisted the meaning of love. The culture acts as though real love is accepting whatever someone wants to do. No matter if it’s sinful. No matter if it’s harmful. We call that love. I call it apathy. Love is a righteous God who would forgive people and give them heaven, and spare…
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Jesus is the bread of life and why bread is the perfect food
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.-John 6:35 Jesus tells a group who’s following him that he is the bread of life. What the perfect food to pick. Something so universal, something that’s such a staple of…
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Sermon: 100-Zero / Galatians 2:15-21
Series context We’re beginning a brief series that I’m calling “The Forensics of Faith.” Spiritually and theologically, there are a number of things that happen when we come to faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This list is by no means exhaustive, but to name a few: We are regenerated, that is to…
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What does it mean that Jesus is God’s son?
Throughout the Gospel of John, Jesus refers to God as his Father. In the Old Testament, there were appropriate forms in which to address God and Father was not one of them. The first Jewish person to refer to God as their “father” was Jesus. There are a few texts which refer to God as…
Josh Benner 