The following blog entry is a sermon transcript from Easter Sunday, 2024 at Red Door Church. The Scripture passage was Acts 2:1-36. We are coming into Spring and not only does that mean warmer weather, it means baseball. Any baseball fans out there? I love baseball and I played it for many years. Now I’m […]
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“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two
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Could God sin? If God has the potential to sin, then he would not be essentially or necessarily good. But God is necessarily or essentially good. He cannot be otherwise. This means that it is impossible for God to commit acts of evil and therefore God cannot even be tempted to do wrong just as
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Critics today almost take it for granted that the gospels were not written by the people we think they were; that the names on each gospel were added at a much later date. They further surmise that whoever wrote these books was not relying on any kind of eyewitness testimony for their material. A few
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If the accounts of Jesus’ life that we have were written by eyewitnesses, that would be considered good evidence for the reliability of their contents. Most significantly, those portions that carry the most weight both historically and doctrinally in Christian faith–the death, deity and resurrection of Jesus. Let’s turn our attention to Matthew’s Gospel and
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If Jesus is God, then would he be in a good position to know whether the Old Testament is reliable in any way. It seems that that would be a safe assumption to make. The fact is that when you read the gospels, you will see that Jesus has a very high view regarding the
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