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Hi there! So you will be familiar with the verse in Revelation about being hot or cold? The point is that we are supposed to do something about our faith, to distinguish it from the so-called 'faith' that is in the world. In the world, people are happy to be lukewarm - Jesus calls us to...

Means both "letter" and "formal letter" in Koine Greek. While today one can look up the word "epistle" in a modern dictionary and find that it refers to a formal letter of special importance, in the First Century world of Paul and other authors of the New Testament, the Greek "epistole"...

The word translated as 'demon' in most English bibles refers to invisible (to us) evil beings that are in opposition to God. The word wrongly translated as 'angel' refers to messengers of the true God. They are invisible beings who are greater than humans and who are on the side of what is good...

What is translated in most versions of the New Testament as "common people", means "crowd" in Greek. However, the vast majority of the "crowd" who followed Jesus around were most likely regular average people, rather than the elite of society. The religious leaders often hung nearby because...

The Greek "ekklesia", mistranslated as 'church' in modern bibles, means "assembly" or "called out ones" for a specific purpose. This was a term applied to a Greek political assembly and appears to have been deliberately chosen by Jesus himself. In the New Testament, this term always refers to...

CHRISTIAN: Paul never once refers to himself as a 'christian', while at least five times in the New Testament he refers to himself as a follower of "the way". The way was considered to be a revolutionary new way of life, centered on the true communism of sharing all things in common and...

Paul opens and closes every letter attributed to him with "grace" to you followed often by "mercy" and/or "peace", always listing grace first. He also says that Jesus gives us more grace and, we grow from grace to grace (more free, bigger and better understanding). Unlike many Christians teach...

Greek "christos" means "anointed" or "the anointed one". In Hebrew, "mashiach" means the same thing, which is translated as "Messiah" into English. Most English bibles leave this untranslated as "Christ", which is based on the Greek for Messiah. Whether we say Jesus Christ or Jesus Messiah is...

It is virtually certain that Jesus was not a carpenter as the term is generally perceived today. Many if not most historians believe the literal Greek refers to either a stone mason, handyman or common laborer stone mason's helper. Though ambiguous, it is believed the literal Greek may refer...

Hi there! So this is a very simple thing, that has helped me relate to God a lot. God does not create for us, circumstances that never change, nor does He force us to live under certain conditions but not others. Now, you might think "God has a path set for me, once He has told me to walk down...

Hi there, So this is a thread of praise and worship of God, but a special mention of the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has a stronger faith than any of us. I used to think "I need to fix my Christianity" but in reality I needed to trust the Holy Spirit to do with my faith, what I...

Hi there, So this thought is just going around and around in my head: the Holy Spirit will teach a greater degree than Jesus. Jesus essentially taught the "fear of God": repentance, righteous judgment, atonement - we were expected to understand that our fear of God should in fact be a...

Hi there, So I am writing out of a desire to process what I am going through at the moment - I have reached a sort of milestone, and I want to make sure I am clear on what part God has had in it. Basically, I have come to the conclusion, you do not need to be sane all the time (which being...

Excellent 'link' = What Is Grace? (Two Minutes With The Bible) Precious friends, the following is just a small portion of God's Wonderful Grace Doctrine: A) Generally, across all of God's Dispensations, we find: God's "Unmerited Favor" Upon All mankind, both the just and also the unjust...

Hi there, So it is almost complete: the Church of Notre Dame has been rebuilt! This is a great sign of the peace that the Churches of the world will enjoy, when Gospel has gone out to all the nations of the world. It will be common place, for people to say "Oh yes! I have faith like that...

Hi there, So I just want to dwell briefly on the fact that God does not create, such that we suffer on our own, but that God creates knowing He will suffer from His creation suffering. God suffering is why our relationship to Him is so important: without a relationship to God, there is no end...

Let me show you : 2 times that God caused Light to shine = "out of darkness". 1.) was when there was not any Sun or Stars. There was just the earth. God as the incarnate word said...as Colossians 1:16......."Let there be LIGHT".....and it became so. Go outside tonight and look at some sky...

Hi there, So I just wanted to put a word out there, for people to pray for Australia. The Devil wants to destroy this nation, but the Lord won't stand for it. We need to agree with Him, stand and pray, until we reach "touchdown" and God can claim the victory. We are a very young nation...

Ecclesiastes 4: 8. There is one alone, and there is not a second; .........,.....................................,................................................. 9.Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10. For if they fall, the one will LIFT UP his fellow...