Even today, some churches go by the name of tabernacle. The tabernacle, whether as the tent in the wilderness or the temple in Jerusalem, is that place where God and…
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We’re told Jesus goes up the mountain to pray (9:28). How often we read that Jesus prayed. Do we? Why did Jesus, the well-beloved Son of God, God incarnate, need…
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So here is the sum of it. Jesus has been describing a way to live governed by God’s principles, life God’s way, a heart being filled with God. This happens…
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Through Paul’s letters, we learn that Luke was a companion and co-laborer with Paul, who calls Luke, “the beloved physician” (Col 4:14). Unlike every other writer in the Bible, Luke…
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The Sons of Thunder had it coming, not that Jesus owed it to them, of course. But who among them really was going to argue that he had outdone James…
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Without food, we won’t last long. If we understand that, how much more people in the days of Jesus, when crop failures and famines were real things? Though the Roman…
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“It will always help us if we regard this world as organized not for our comfort but for our training.”[1] So says our friend William Barclay. The old saying was…
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Jesus has been telling those who want to be his followers about the sort of life they are to live. He has been telling them about the disposition of the…
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One thing I can guarantee you: if you follow Christ, it’s eventually going to get you in trouble. There are many in situations of authority and influence who do not…
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I suppose we each have a picture of how the church ought to be, including this little congregation of it. No one’s picture looks just like the church as it…
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