In the United States today, for a great many people, Christmas is the time when you put up a tree and take the kids to the mall to see Santa Claus and tell him all the things they want for gifts. For others, Christmas is a family holiday, a time when families get together, eat […]
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In another post, we looked at who wrote the Gospel of Mark, and before that we looked at who wrote Matthew’s Gospel. Now we will take up Luke’s Gospel. Who wrote Luke? Was the person in a position to record what he recorded? Can we know anything about this author? Did this person have contact
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Countless denominations cause many people today to associate Christianity with division and religious rivalry. The past lends some merit to this association. Back in the 16th and 17th century, Europe experienced severe religious conflict, one would even say warfare, between Protestants and Catholics. Back then denominational differences were a matter of life and death. This
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When the gospels and Acts are seen as eyewitness testimony, they gain a lot of credibility in the eyes of nonbelievers which makes it all the more easier for us as followers of Christ to tell them about Jesus and the offer of salvation by placing their trust in him. In my last post, I’ve
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Rummaging through books at a local thrift shop in town I discovered one with the catchy title: The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus by the archaeologists Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. The book is a novel that presents an “alternate life of Jesus,” a life which was supposedly well documented in antiquity but has
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