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'Reflections of Fire

Luke has opened his volume, as we saw, with a greeting to Theophilus, with both the opening greeting and reference referring back to the first part of his work, his Gospel about Jesus Christ. Going forward, Luke is now writing about the Acts of Jesus Christ. The rejection by the Pharisees and the strife predicted were a present reality with Jesus, and will continue to be so as the chosen witnesses spread their witness about Jesus Christ. For our part, we saw ...

'Some History'

Warning Note. This is longer than I wanted, but it is important. I am struggling to get you to see the structural differences that make the Biblical narrative easier to comprehend. It is this structure that the Koran lacks. The narrative structure of the Bible makes it easier to see and respond to what God is showing us. God bless...
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Christianity is based in history; we believe ...

"The Pattern of Obedience"
"Continued form part 3.2"

In the last part we established a few things:
1. God worked with Moses fears and objections, but in the end He wanted Moses to obey Him, and follow what He told Moses to do.
2. This pattern of obedience is seen all throughout Scripture, with Saul's Kingship being a good example.
3. The book of Judges is the background that leads up to Saul becoming King of Israel.
4. If you read the third chapter, ...

"Abraham to Moses: With a Stop Inbetween”

We started this with the point of being able articulate, or at least picture what was meant by Paul's point in 1 Timothy 2:5

5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus...

The idea of ‘mediator’ is used in several places in the Scripture. While this will help to point out what this means with Christ, there are some differences, too. We have looked at Blastus, in Acts ...