Whenever there’s an archaeological discovery related to the Bible, conflicting interpretations by supposed experts can leave a believer’s head spinning. Take the recent discovery in Israel of a palace from the era of King David. An archaeologist from Hebrew University in Jerusalem says there’s “unequivocal evidence” that David and his descendants ruled at the site. …
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments 5 and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ . . …
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In his “High Priestly Prayer” in John 17, Jesus asked the Father that His believers would “be one.” And Paul was impatient with church quarrels between those who said, “I follow Paul . . . Apollos . . . Cephas . . .or . . . Christ. He asked them rhetorically, in 1 Corinthians 1:12-13, …
Do you ever wonder why people were healed in the New Testament from touching Jesus’ garment? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell the story of a woman with a “discharge of blood” who “touched the fringe” of Jesus’ garment and was healed (Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:25-34; Luke 8:43-48). On another occasion, a crowd brought to …
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You may have noticed that the Bible isn’t always in chronological order. Psalms and Proverbs come after Nehemiah and Esther. But much of Psalms and Proverbs is set before Nehemiah and Esther. Skipping to the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians was one of the first books written, but it appears after John, one of the last …
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(Note: This is an article on “The Day of the Lord” that is presented within The Biblical Story Course under ERA 5: Jesus, lesson 24). Synopsis The Day of the Lord is a day of both judgment and rescue. The Old Testament prophets used the phrase to indicate the day when God would punish Israel …