Joe | October 21, 2009
The Chasm
There is a chasm between every human being and the Creator of the Universe. It’s a chasm that no one can cross over by strictly human means.
Why the chasm? What caused it? In a word, sin. The sin of Adam and Eve and all of their children (that’s you and I) caused a separation [...]
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Tags: Agnosticism, apostasy, Atheism, choices, condemnation, homosexuality, judgment, salvation, sin, truth
Joe | October 16, 2009
One of the blogs I follow is Steve Camp’s CAMPONTHIS.
He just wrote a really powerful post that I wanted to partly share here at May He Increase.
Young men, have you really made up your minds to this? Have you clearly looked into the fires which are before you, if you persist in despising Christianity? Call [...]
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Tags: choices, condemnation, contempt, judgment, sin, truth
Joe | October 14, 2009
Jesus taught frequently in parables. He did this partly to give the message the opportunity to sink into discerning ears and hearts; the ones ready to hear the message. It also allowed Jesus to demonstrate and reveal the callousness and dullness of the “learned” Pharisees.
While “bad” things happen to “good” people sometimes, God will not [...]
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Tags: judgment, parable, salvation, Satan, tares, truth, wheat
Joe | September 18, 2009
I read a post the other day over at Parchment and Pen regarding “What Did Christ Mean When He Said …” “let this cup pass from me.”
The post was regarding the doctrine of Jesus being fully God and fully man. If Jesus was truly God, why was He asking if He could be spared the [...]
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Tags: ark of the covenant, gethsemane, judgment, justice, law, mercy seat, obedience, salvation, sin, yom kippur
Joe | September 7, 2009
We ended our study last time at Job chapter 14, looking at the first series of discourses between Job and his three friends.
From Job 15:1 to Job 37:24, there is a second round of discourses between Job and his friends. For brevity’s sake, I’m skipping ahead now to chapter 38 to God’s first reply to Job. God [...]
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Tags: Agnosticism, Atheism, Job, Parallels, pride, Prophecy, sin, suffering, wisdom