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Friday, August 31st, 2007Part 7 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church
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Like Jesus, we have been sent to proclaim the good news. In addition to telling His disciples to wait for the Spirit to empower them, Jesus explained what the Spirit’s power would accomplish:
When the Holy Spirit […]
Sent by Jesus to Continue His Mission in the Power of the Spirit
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Part 5 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church
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In my last two posts I summarized the mission of Jesus. In a nutshell:
1. Jesus was sent by God in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2. Jesus was sent to proclaim the good news.
3. Jesus was […]
The Mission of Jesus
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Part 3 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church
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If you were to ask the average Christian, “What was the mission of Jesus?” you’d no doubt hear that Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins, so that we might have eternal life. […]
Mission Impossible and the Mission of God in the Old Testament
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Part 1 of series: The Mission of God and the Missional Church
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Note: I began this series a couple of months ago, but became distracted by other issues. The content is important enough to warrant completion of the series. But if I simply picked up where I left […]
Inspiration from the Pray the Psalms
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Excerpt
Cast your burden on the LORD,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 55:22
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Prayer
O Lord, what a welcome invitation! Not only am I set free from carrying my burden alone, […]
Can We Trust the Accuracy of the Oral Traditions About Jesus? Part 4
Saturday, August 25th, 2007If you’ve been following my blog in the past few days, you know I’ve been developing an analogy that helps to explain why we can have confidence in the oral traditions about Jesus. So far, here’s what I have:
You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If you […]
Can We Trust the Accuracy of the Oral Traditions About Jesus? Part 3
Friday, August 24th, 2007In my last two posts I’ve been developing an analogy that helps to explain why we can trust that the oral traditions about Jesus accurately passed along what He really did and said. Here’s what I have so far:
You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If you […]
Can We Trust the Accuracy of the Oral Traditions About Jesus? Part 2
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007In my last post I began to explain why we can trust the accuracy of the oral traditions about Jesus, using the following analogy:
You are diagnosed with terminal cancer. But your doctor gives you a ray of hope. If you can go and hear a lecture by a famed cancer researcher, you will receive information […]
Can We Trust the Accuracy of the Oral Traditions About Jesus?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Today I did an hour’s interview with Greg Koukl, president of Stand to Reason, a Christian apologetics ministry. Greg is one of my favorite apologists, not only because he’s very smart, but also because he believes in careful and calm discourse. Over the years I’ve enjoyed listening to him on the radio.
The focus of the […]
The House of the Virgin Mary?
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Part 10 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament
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Until recently, I have never given much thought to what happened to Mary, the mother of Jesus, after His death. I figured that she went to Jerusalem, where James, one of her other sons (or stepsons, if […]
Paul and the Silversmiths, Part 2
Monday, August 20th, 2007Part 9 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament
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When we last left our series on Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament, the city was in an uproar. A gang of silversmiths, at the instigation of a certain Demetrius, were rioting, dragging several of Paul’s colleagues […]
Sunday Inspiration from Pray the Gospels
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Excerpt
Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is […]
Week in Review
Saturday, August 18th, 2007This Week’s Blogging
Inspiration from the Pray the Gospels
Ephesus in the New Testament
The Apostle Paul in Ephesus
Artemis and Her Temple
Paul and the Silversmiths
Inspiring Picture
I took the picture below at Andrew Molera State Park along the central California coast, very near Big Sur.
Paul and the Silversmiths
Friday, August 17th, 2007Part 8 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament
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Now that we know something about the goddess Artemis and her importance for Ephesus, we’re ready to get back to the story of Paul’s ministry in this city.
As Paul’s ministry began to thrive in Ephesus, a certain […]
Artemis and Her Temple
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Part 7 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament
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In my last post I summarized the beginning of Paul’s ministry in Ephesus as it’s described in Acts 19. We saw that after first being stymied in his effort to reach out to Ephesian Jews through the […]
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