How Jesus Fulfilled The Old Testament Sacrifices AND How You Take Part In His Sacrifice!

How Jesus Fulfilled The Old Testament Sacrifices AND How You Take Part In His Sacrifice!   “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17)….

“That they may be one as we are …” – What I Learned From The “CHURCH OF CHRIST”

“That they may be one as we are …” – What I Learned From The “CHURCH OF CHRIST”   All of the sincere movements to restore Christ’s Church to her apostolic foundations have been the result of some group of earnest Christians realizing that…

Is Your Jesus TOO “Divine”?

​Is Your Jesus TOO Divine? We humans relate more easily to people we can see, hear, touch, and experience, rather than gigantic historical figures like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. The Jesus I grew up with in church was sort of like an Abraham…

Soldiers CAN Make the Best Converts to Jesus’s Kingdom!

Soldiers CAN Make the Best Converts to Jesus’s Kingdom! Luke 8:5-13 “And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, begging Him, and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, terribly tormented.’ Jesus said to him, ‘I will come and heal…

Biblical “Inspiration” Includes Careful Crafting And Purposeful Selection Of What Was Recorded

Biblical “Inspiration” Includes Careful Crafting And Purposeful Selection Of What Was Recorded “There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written”…

Christianity THEN versus Christianity NOW!

​HOW MARCUS BECAME A CHRISTIAN IN 90 A.D. In what follows I will be describing one imaginary but realistic scenario about a person becoming a Christian in the first decades of the apostolic era: how they came to believe that Jesus was God’s eternally…

Theological Warfare against Stereotypical Enemies

The enemy loves when we base our judgments upon stereotypes! In the Facebook theological discussion groups I have joined there is an enormous amount to stereotyping heaved back and forth between proponents of the Calvinist/Reformed movements and the rest of “Evangelical” Christianity. I wonder…

CYBER WARFARE, GENETIC ENGINEERING , AND THE END OF DAYS!

CYBER WARFARE, GENETIC ENGINEERING , AND THE END OF DAYS! Step One – Cyber Warfare: I just finished watching a very eye-opening and disturbing documentary made in 2016 called “Zero Days.” It is mostly about the discovery in 2010 of by FAR the most…

To Truly Love Nature, You Must See its Creator!

ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE “Your attitude of gratitude should be commensurate with the value of the gift!” For my high school graduation my parents paid for my school ring. Since many other parents did that in ADDITION to a graduate present, my “attitude of gratitude”…

God’s Role in Your OWN Salvation

A FB friend posted this question in response to an essay I had posted: “Reed, do you believe in limited atonement.” That “limited atonement” is a teaching that Christ only came to save SPECIFIC people – His “elect.” Among Christians who delight in arguing…