Tag: jesus
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(What?!!! Why didn’t anyone preach & teach this before?!!!) Straight on, I’m not saying that Faith is confusing, at least, not from its Author, God. As far as the Author and His instruction manual cum love story cum “don’t leave life without it” planned journey, He is NOT confused. We are. And I’m not referring…
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I’m transfixed by faith! And it’s NOT about having faith in Faith. Transfixed because GOD gives Himself by His sheer grace, out of His heart of mercy and love, to the “crown of His creation” (Psa 8:6), His chosen and elect, from BEFORE the foundation of this world, or space-time history (Eph 1:4). Meaning, that…
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AI is simply a tool. Like a concordance. Or a lexicon. Or a commentary. The user of AI supplies the prompt to get AI working to exegete a Scripture passage. This morning (Tuesday, Sept 20, 2025), I supplied ChatGPT with the following prompt: “Provide an exegesis of Matthew 12:43–45, keeping it: Structured, pastoral yet scholarly…
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Yes, it’s been a while since I last wrote. A combination of work pressures, deadlines, and a loss of purpose for writing! But I’m back, hopefully for the long grind. As I had my moments with the LORD this morning, I was led to go to Luke’s gospel, and the final chapter. And to specifically…
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The reason I have not written for about three weeks is because I have been laid low with a flu, on top of being inundated with teaching and learning duties and responsibilities. In fact, my wife is still recovering from her flu. It has been more than three weeks for her. And in these bouts…
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We do wonder, don’t we, why some people “get it”, and others don’t? I mean why is it that some people hear the astoundingly good deal of the good news and miss it by a mile? Think about it. Jesus comes offering eternal life in all its amazingly rich layers of meaning and application, and…
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The gospel of Jesus Christ is no mere religious ritual or routine. God has called-through grace by faith-for His elect and predestined children to soar on wings like eagles. Not live picking worms from the ground like chickens. The greatest tragedy of Christianity is a doctrine “of the cross” devoid of the resurrection. A truncated…
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(Why the gospel of Christ moves so slow today) Luke 7:36-50 is an amazing demonstration of the gospel of God’s extravagant grace in action. In this passage, Jesus demonstrates why He is the Master Teacher. His teaching always includes a demonstration of what He is teaching. Prior to this passage, Jesus was talking about John…
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I’ve been a believer of Christ now for almost 47 years. For the first 14 years of my life, I thought I was a Christian. At least a cultural Christian. I was born into a Roman Catholic family. My earliest recollections of life with my pretty large family-14 of us including mum and dad-revolved around…
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Braaten & Jenson (1998, Eerdmans Pub)’s Union with Christ, The New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, continues to yield innumerable riches of insights into the gospel of God and of Christ for me. I’m reading and studying the book…again! In pages 14 to 15, this astounding truth brought me much delight. “Faith means justification precisely on…