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There is a huge myth out there that I want to challenge. I know I’ve challenged it before. But I keep hearing it repeated. It keeps getting told, unchallenged, over and over again. And it’s deceiving millions. What is this myth? It’s that if you can follow the science, you can’t believe in Jesus.
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Why is love? People ask all the time, what is love? But has it ever occurred to you to ask, why is love? Has it ever occurred to you to ask why there is such a thing as love, why it even exists, and, more importantly, why it holds such a primary place in our lives?
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Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. One of the most basic Christian beliefs is that, in order to be forgiven, in order to be saved, you have to trust in what Jesus did for us on the Cross. Last week, I talked about the “Objective Atonement”, how the Cross works from God’s side of things, how it affects God so as to enable Him to create, forgive, and love sinners like us. This week, I’m going to talk about the “Subjective Atonement”, how the Cross works from our side of things, how it affects us. This is in response to a group of insightful questions someone recently asked about the Cross.
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Over thirty years ago, a hugely controversial movie called The Last Temptation of Christ hit the screens. It was based on a book with the same title written decades before by Nikos Kazantzakis. As I recall, it followed the narrative of the novel fairly closely. The reason the movie caused such a stir--it was a major story in the mainstream press for many weeks--is because it vividly depicted Jesus in situations of real temptation.
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Was Jesus “woke”? Not originally according to one YouTuber I recently heard about. He claims Jesus was as prejudiced as anyone of His day. He shared the racial biases every other Jew held against non-Jews. It was an encounter He had one day with a Syro-Phoenician woman that made Him as “woke” as He was.
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Is the Corona Virus Vaccine the “Mark of the Beast” that Revelation 13:16-18 talks about? Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard a number of people speculating that it is. Then, this week, I had someone request that I address this question in this blog. In order to answer this question, I have to answer another question first: What is the “Mark of the Beast”?
