Christmas and Contending for the Faith Encouraging the Body of Messiah AS of this writing, Christmas is upon us. My goal in this episode is to encourage the Body of Messiah during this Christmas season is to continue “Earnestly Contending for the Faith Once delivered to the Saints.” Christmas Celebrations ‘Round the World Many Christians […]
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SPIRIT OF THE SONS OF GOD In Today’s lesson, we will look at how our Father, Yahovah decides who He will choose to become His sons (the sons of God). How Yahovah Chooses His Sons We will start with Romans 8:29-30. In this passage Paul takes us into the mind of God and reveals His […]
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Many believers are not sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom of God because they do not understand the difference between: “The Gospel about Jesus” and “the Gospel of the Kingdom of God,” that Yahoshua preached. Matthew records Yahoshua’s commission to us in Mat 28:18-19, saying: “All power and authority has been given to me […]
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What Does Being Born Again Truly Mean—It May Not Be As You Perceive it to be—Episode 71 How many of us entered into Christianity, regardless the denomination for the most part, under the assumption that we have or are “born again?” Or I should probably ask, how many of us have entered into Christianity having […]
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When is the True Believer’s New Year’s Day? It’s Not As You Perceive–Episode 70 When is the true believer’s new year’s day? The vast majority of “Churched” believers in the world celebrated or recognized Jan. 1, 2016 as the beginning of the calendar year. It would not be too much of a stretch to say […]
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By Grace are You Saved Part 2 of the series: Grace and the Law In part one (1) of this series entitle Grace and the Law, we critically looked at some of the key bible passages that our cousins in fundamental and charismatic churchianity (or Christianity as popularly referenced) have used over the centuries to support […]
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Grace and the Law Hasn’t the Law Been Done Away With? That Which Separates Us Those of us in the Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith (Messianic Believers in Y’shua Messiah; Torah Observant Believers in Y’shua Messiah) are comparatively the smallest of minorities in the realm of self-professing Christians in the world. According to Wikipedia.com, […]
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So then, the question remains, are the writings of Paul a stumbling block for many of today’s Christians? From my last three postings I have laid out what I believe to be the case that many of the doctrines of modern day Christianity have resulted from an improper reading and interpretation of many of Paul’s […]
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The issue of Paul’s writings being a stumbling block for the practicing Christian of today seems to have been addressed quite eloquently by the writer of II Peter 3: 15, 16: “And account (i.e., regard, deem, bear in mind) that the long-suffering (i.e., patience) of our Lord is salvation even as our beloved brother […]
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Is it reasonable to expect the average 21st century man or woman, or that matter a mature self-professing Christian, to bee able to read and fully understand their Bibles? I mean: can we simply pick-up a copy of the King James Version/the NIV/the ASV/etc.–turn to, let’s say, a passage from one of Paul’s epistles, and […]
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