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Titus was a Greek follower of Jesus, who was for years a trusted co-worker and traveling companion of Paul, helping Paul in a number of crisis situations in the past. Paul had assigned Titus the task of going to Crete, to restore order to a network of house churches. Cretan culture was notorious...

Salvation is not earned by human initiative or merits, but is offered freely by God’s elective decision to grant access to himself, the true God and his truth enter into a covenant relationship with those who embrace that access. One gains access to the true God and his covenant family by grace...

Acts chapters 13-14, Paul wrote the Galatians from a place of deep passion and frustration. Christianity began as a Jewish Messianic movement in Jerusalem, but it’s message was for all humanity and it quickly spread beyond Israel. By Paul’s time as a missionary, there were as many non-Jews, as...

Paul started this Jesus community in Corinth sometime ago on one of his missionary journeys, “Acts chapter 18” and after moving on, Paul got a report that things were not going well there, and it appears that many in the church rejected Paul’s teaching he wrote and some rebelled against his...

In Acts chapter 18, Paul’s reasonings to a church community that Paul knew really well, Corinth was a major port city in the ancient world and had lots of temples to Greek and Roman gods, it was a big economic center and so Paul strategically came as a missionary. He spent a year and a half...

All humanity is hopelessly trapped in sin and needs to be rescued, this rescue is not going to happen by people trying to obey the laws of the Torah, rather, God’s righteous character has move him to rescue the world through Jesus’ death and resurrection, so that he could create a faith-based...

Acts 18:1-2, the church in Rome had existed for some time, but at one point, the Roman emperor Clavdivs had expelled all of the Jewish people from Rome, and then about five years later all of those Jews, including Jesus following Jews were allowed to return, and when they did, they found a...

The persecutions had intensified, and the Thessalonians Christians had become confused and scared about the return of Jesus. Paul offers hope in the midst of their continued persecution, and then he offers clarity about the coming day of the Lord. Paul, with a thanksgiving prayer, for the...

Acts chapter 17, it is where Paul and his co-worker Silas went to the ancient Greek city of Thessalonica, and after just one mouth of telling people the good news about Jesus, a large number of Jewish and Greek people gave their allegiance to Jesus and they form the first church community there...

The risen Jesus spend some 40 days with the disciples teaching them about the kingdom of God, and Jesus claimed that he was restoring God’s kingdom over the world, beginning with Israel. Jesus called Israel to live under God’s reign by following him and he was enthroned as king when he gave up...

The third rebellion in Genesis 11:19, the story of Babel, when the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, and when he fixed the borders of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord’s portion, but Yahweh’s portion is his people, Jacob...

Christian’s believe the fall in the garden of Eden is why the world is the way it is, but that’s actually incomplete, what happened in Eden was just the first of three reasons why there’s so much evil and death in the world. There were actually two more supernatural rebellions, Genesis 6:1-5...

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, while he was sleeping, he took one of his sides and covered it with flesh, then the Lord God built a woman from the side he had taken from the man and he brought her to the man. In all of the history of the Hebrew language, that word...

There is a major problem here, American Dispensationalism, with the idea of the rapture, it has actually turned the idea of Jesus’ second coming into it’s opposite in the New Testament. The second coming is not Jesus coming back to scoop up some people and take them off to heaven with him. In...

On the seventh day God rests from his work, so what are these seven days about? God’s making his cosmic temple and he’s inaugurating it on the seventh day. The Israelites, they rested after Joshua brings them into the land, why, so they can get to the business of human flourishing. So God is...

In verse two of Genesis, we find a description of what we could call the blank canvas that God starts with, the pre-creation state. The earth is formless and empty and that darkness was over the surface of the deep, deep means deep waters, bottomless waters, these are ways that the ancient...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said, let there be light and there was light, God saw that the light was good, and he separated the...

According to the Bible, the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the son of God, links you up to a story that’s already, it’s like jumping into a rushing river, we are jumping into a story that’s already midstream and has all this momentum already. So in the Bible, the idea of heaven and earth are...

We are going to see a character known as wisdom and the character is spoken of in female terms. Proverbs 8:22-31 and in chapter 8, wisdom is speaking at the beginning of the chapter, and in verse 22 The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old…then I was...

Angel of the Lord in Exodus 3:1-3, the question is, who’s in the bush? Now Moses…the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. But look at verse 4, when the Lord saw he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush. Well...