02 Oct Why Forgive 490 Times?
When the disciples asked Jesus 'how many times should I forgive?' they even suggested what seemed like a generous answer to their own question...
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30 Sep Does God Force People to Hell
God gets accused of many things. One of them is the idea that he forces people to either do what he wants, OR he sends them to Hell as punishment for not obeying. It's not a fair accusation, and comes when people don't understand what is...
24 Sep Qualifications to Be the Messiah
Last week a commenter on our YouTube channel suggested we were wrong about Jesus being the Jewish Messiah, because whoever the Messiah was, they needed to do these six things. He said that Jesus failed because the only thing he did was the first. Be...
04 Sep Did Jesus Know about Trauma?
Most people have been through things that are traumatic. Some are severe, like serving in war, or a childbirth that goes wrong, or being raised by abusive parents, or being bullied at school. Sometimes Christians are persecuted for their faith. Others are born at the...
25 Aug Did Jesus Sing a Song?
Matthew's gospel records that while concluding the last supper, Jesus and the disciples sang a hymn. 'Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured...
29 Jul Did Jesus Pray for the Sick
We recently had a visitor to Peace who had been on a mission trip to India with Stuart Gramenz. Stuart taught people to lay hands on the sick and say, 'Be healed in Jesus' name.' During a church meeting, our visitor was presented with a girl...
28 Jul Four Views of Revelation
The book of Revelation almost didn't make it into the Bible. Back then not everyone agreed about what it meant or how useful it was. Today, it's place in the Bible is less of an issue, but we are still coming to the place of...
01 Jul The Image of God Invisible
You can’t see God. He is a spirit (see John 4:24) so he isn't visible to us unless he does something to make himself visible. But Colossians is saying that because in seeing Jesus you see God. It isn’t that Jesus in his physical appearance represents...
30 Jun Revelation For The 1st Century
The book of Revelation is apocalyptic - full of symbols - and at times hard to understand. But not all of it. The part of the book of Revelation which is written in plain language is actually the component where John is told to write...
23 Jun The Mystery of One God
Its easier to see in the Bible how Jesus and the Father are separate. Jesus prays to the Father, so they must be separate, and indeed they are. Yet it is hard for us to wrap our minds around how together, how inseparable, how agreed...
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