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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Ephesians 4:13 it states “This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.” (NLV) What is going to...
Who is the first apostle in the Bible? While it seems that we first find apostles in the gospel accounts when Jesus selected his twelve, actually none of these are first. The writer of Hebrews tells us to “fix your thoughts on Jesus, whom we acknowledge...
Apart from other reasons, undoubtedly one of the purposes of Jesus’ parables is to incite hunger in the hearts of genuine seekers after Jesus/the Truth. If I said to my children, “Your Christmas present this year is like…” and told them a parable type story that...
Over the weekend just gone, millions of believers all around the world have celebrated and remembered the death and resurrection of our Lord. Through his death we have atonement, redemption, justification, and in fact are given everything we need for life in Christ. But a...
