Kainos Ktisis – Learning What It Means to Be a New Creation In Christ!
Happy "Yom Teruah" and "Yom Hekeseh!" Or "Behold, I Show You a Mystery!" (1 Corinthians 15:51,52) 23 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Leviticus 23:23 (New American …
Rosh Hashana / ראש השנה or Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign! (Matthew 24:36) “..the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do….”1 Chronicles 12:32 (New American Standard) 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and …
The Road Less Traveled: From Christian to Disciple (1 Corinthians 2:15) or Why People Don’t Want to Mature in Christ (1 Corinthians 3:1-3) “Life is hard,” are the first words in a book that everyone needs to read. The Road Less Traveled by Dr. Scott Peck has been out for many years, but the …
God is in the protection racket! or Sign, sealed, delivered, I’m yours! (Ephesians 2:12-14) I said earlier that my God the Father made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. I was offered salvation through the blood of Jesus and a joint heir as a son of the most high God. When I did many …
Understanding my New Standing With God (Romans 4:3,5:17) OR To Be or Not to Be – That is the Question (2 Corinthians 5:21) To sum up some important points about being a new creation in Christ. When you accept Christ as Lord and Saviour of your life, you are immediately a new creation. (2 …
What it Means to be Adopted into the Family of God (Romans 8:15-17) or How my God Father Made Me an Offer I Couldn’t Refuse For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) For he was looking …
How I Maintain Righteousness (Ephesians 2:15) or The Spiritual Pecking Order ( John 14:26) Another thing my first pastor did not know to tell me was the fact there is a the pecking order – a spiritual hierarchy - in heaven, and where I fit in as a believer. As I began to investigate my …
Basic Christianity 101 or Why I am a New Creation In Christ “For if a man is in Christ he becomes a new person altogether.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 (Phillips Modern English) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians …
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Why the average church person knows so little about the Bible and Why I am writing this blog My mother died this year at the age of 92. She attended a well known denomination “religiously” for the past 60 years. My father was an elder in that which church I grew up in. Yet, when …
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Why I can’t get a steak on Sunday Morning (Hebrews 5:12, I Corinthians 3:2) or What Makes Me Excited to Come to Church Over the years, I am convinced that I am a carnal Christian. Not exactly like 1 Corinthians 3, but in the sense that I am carnivorous. I come to church expecting …
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