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mar272020 by @prflavionunesNo Comments

H. B. Charles on Jesus’s Longest Conversation

Jesus is the meeting place of time and eternity. He is the intersection between heaven and earth. When we, like the woman at the well, were in our sin and could not reach up, God reached down. Transcript The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy. H. B. Charles: Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we ask again and afresh, that you would open our eyes that we may behold wonderful things about the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray that you would help us to lay aside all malice, deceit, envy, hypocrisy, and slander, so that, as newborn infants we may crave the pure spiritual milk of your word, and grow thereby, having tasted of your goodness.Grant me physical strength a...

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5 Ways Exodus Confronts Our Secular Age

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Editors’ note: Take part in TGC’s Read the Bible initiative, where we’re encouraging Christians and churches to read together through God’s Word in a year. Exodus is epic. An underdog leader of a slave nation stands up to the world’s most powerful man. Hail, frogs, flies, and rivers of blood plague the most prosperous nation on the planet. God miraculously divides a major body of water so his people can escape their captors. That’s just the first half. No wonder Exodus has held Hollywood’s attention for a long time. Consider full-length feature films including The Ten Commandments (1956), The Prince of Egypt (1998), and more recently, Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). While these movies get some things right, the true message of Exodus is often lost to make it more palatable for mo...

mar212020 by @prflavionunesNo Comments

Reexamining Idolatry: The Golden Calf and False Worship

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Editors’ note: Take part in TGC’s Read the Bible initiative, where we’re encouraging Christians and churches to read together through God’s Word in a year Of all the questions Christians face, understanding idolatry doesn’t feel like a particularly hard one. What is idolatry? The worship of idols. It’s worshiping something other than God. While that answer is true, it’s insufficient. Scripture gives multiple accounts of idolatry. Some are clearly worship of false gods. But idolatry also includes false worship of the true God. And, in the Bible, it’s often hard to tell the difference. Ever wonder why worshiping God in the “high places” in 1 and 2 Kings leads so quickly into worshiping Baal and Asherah poles? Because false worship—or unauthorized worship—leads to more f...

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Where’s Jesus in Proverbs?

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Editors’ note: Take part in TGC’s Read the Bible initiative, where we’re encouraging Christians and churches to read together through God’s Word in a year. For most Christians today, the book of Proverbs is a lot like a Christian Dear Abby column. “What do I do in this situation, or with this emotion?” This isn’t wrong. Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness, after all (2 Tim. 3:16). While Proverbs certainly gives us wisdom about day to day life, the early church read it primarily as a book about Wisdom himself—the Lord Jesus. This was especially true of Proverbs 8:22–31, one of the most important texts for the early church’s understanding of Jesus. So let’s see if we can see what the early church saw in this passage. Because knowing Jesus, the True Wisdom, helps ...