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The Speech and Silence of the Son (Sermon on Jesus's Arrest and Trial)
Jesus Christ

The Speech and Silence of the Son (Sermon on Jesus's Arrest and Trial)

Watch here:     Biblical Text: John 18 Sermon Outline:  Betrayal and Arrest in the Garden False and Faithful Witnesses before the Jewish Lea...
March 16, 2025
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Review of Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently
Book Review

Review of Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently

  Michael R. Licona . Jesus,Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently . Zondervan , 2024. Hardback. ISBN 978-0310159599....
February 25, 2025
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When Hope Shouts: Navigating Exhaustion and Exultation in Christ
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When Hope Shouts: Navigating Exhaustion and Exultation in Christ

In Luke 22:45, Luke describes the disciples in the garden as having fallen asleep because they were “exhausted from sorrow.” This picture of...
February 14, 2025
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When Hope Screamed: The Glory of Christ in Suffering
Hope

When Hope Screamed: The Glory of Christ in Suffering

Hope in the New Testament is often connected to the resurrection and the life that is found as a result of being “in Christ.” This hope is n...
February 13, 2025
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On Loan For a Purpose
Jesus Christ

On Loan For a Purpose

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent, your time. They were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is divine. —Lecrae, ...
January 25, 2025
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Jesus Christ

A Remembered Christ

Reading today, I was deeply convicted and greatly encouraged by this statement by Richard Baxter (I brought the wording into our century): ...
January 12, 2025
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Fred Sanders

Knowing His Name . . .

Commenting on all the "naming" that goes on in the Christmas story (Jesus, the genealogies, etc): Because God knows our names, we ...
December 21, 2014
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Everything Rides on the Reality of the Resurrection
Eschatology

Everything Rides on the Reality of the Resurrection

Everything rides on the reality of resurrection. A general belief in the resurrection at the end of days is present in the Old Testamen...
August 11, 2014
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Christology

The Identity of the Jesus Preached

The authenticity of any reproduction of the gospel depends on the identity of the Jesus preached in that gospel. —Mike Bird, Evangelical T...
July 19, 2014
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Jesus Christ

An Unimaginably More Potent Witness

The best evangelical theological work emerges from the delight in the Christian gospel, for the gospel announces a reality which is in itse...
July 11, 2014
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Biblical Theology

The Entire Fabric of the Bible

Christ not only fulfills the Old Testament but fills out the entire fabric of the Bible, summing up all things in Himself. –Joshua E. Willia...
December 15, 2011
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J.I. Packer

Coming to the Crucified Christ

It is the living Christ himself, the perfect Savior of sinners, who carries in himself all the virtue of his finished work on the cross. ...
July 27, 2011
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Jesus Christ

What it took to swallow up death

Calvin, emphasizing the importance of the incarnation: For the same reason it was also imperative that he who was to become our Redeemer be...
July 15, 2011
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Jesus Christ

The God Revealing Jesus in John

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. —John 1:18 (NASB) Accordin...
March 19, 2011
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Adolf Schlatter

Seeing Jesus

In my view there is no higher calling for the human eye than perception which apprehends what Jesus desires and claims.  —Adolf Schlatter, ...
September 22, 2010
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Easter

The Last Breath of the Son of God

About the "ninth hour" around two thousand years ago, "there was darkness over the whole land" when all of a sudden, ...
April 3, 2010
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Jesus Christ

He Once Stood in Our Midst

Mankind cannot be too often reminded that . . . a man of the name of Jesus Christ once stood in their midst.  —Adolf Harnack, What is Christ...
January 30, 2010
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Hebrews

The Sacrifice that Saved us was a Work of the Trinity

Contrasting the Old Covenant system of sacrifice with the New Covenant that Jesus inaugurated with his death, the author of Hebrews writes, ...
January 13, 2010
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Jesus Christ

Only one true hero

In the end, all historical figures--and living ones as well--are only useful as they point us to Christ; all are flawed because of their inn...
June 16, 2008
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Colossians

What we think of Christ is Everything!

Earlier today, my Mom pointed me to an excerpt she had read from the conclusion of a study on Colossians. What we think of Christ is everyth...
June 5, 2008
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