Tag: creation
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Jesus, Genesis, and a New Creation. John 1
Jesus is the Lord of creation and new creation. I’m going to highlighting a few words and phrases in this opening prologue to John. In the beginning. Word. Life. Light. Darkness. Just to name a few. These are all found both in John 1, but also in Genesis 1. The Word of God Opening phrase…
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One piece of advice for my students: responsibility
You need to start taking responsibility of your life, your decisions, and your faith now. All of those things matter. All of those are things where you have a lot of control now. Yes, you have parents, you have teachers, you have other adults around you who are teaching you.
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10 great quotes from John Calvin
John Calvin is both one of the greatest theologians of all time and one of the most polarizing theologians of all time. He lived from 1509-1564 and was a brilliant writer and preacher. Calvin’s greatest work was his voluminous theological treatise “Institutes on the Christian Religion.” It’s a summary of Calvin’s theology for which he…
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Best of 2018. #5 Parents allowing children to decide their gender: why?
As 2018 comes to a close, I am sharing some of my top posts from this year. A recent article from NBC talks about a Massachusetts family who are raising their twin boys without a gender. The idea behind this parenting philosophy is to allow the twins to decide for themselves when they’re older. In…
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Society doesn’t dictate gender. God does.
It’s becoming somewhat of a buzz phrase that a person’s gender is a cultural construct. This idea flatly contradicts the wisdom of human experience and long established cultural norms. But more importantly, this thinking contradicts God’s creation. God designed men and women in his creation. Our gender is an essential part of our being. Until…
Josh Benner 