Tag: Teaching the Gospel
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Do You Need A Degree to Teach the Gospel?
(2 Corinthians 3:1-6) This is a fascinating piece of scripture in these first few verses of 2 Corinthians 3. It forces us to think about the direction that the church has taken over the millenia since Christ appeared and makes you wonder what has gone wrong. If you want to preach the gospel in many…
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Tongues Do Not Teach
(1 Corinthians 14:6-12) As I mentioned in my last post, there is a commonly held myth in the modern church that tongues were given only to the early church so that they could spread the gospel. Likewise it is held by these same people today that there is now no need for tongues. Both of…
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Babes In Christ
(1 Corinthians 3:1-4) The aim and the focus of the walk we take with and in Jesus Christ is to become mature. It is the will of God that His people are mature and strong in the gospel, fully able to walk in the ways of God in this world. The end game for this…
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Understanding The Depths Of God
(1 Corinthians 2:10-13) Who can understand the depths of God? Who even thinks it is possible to do so? Surely to think so would be madness and the height of foolishness! No man can possibly understand the depths of God. Even in all that has been created, man is still only scratching the surface of…
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Romans
(Romans 1:1-15) Today we commence looking at the letter of Paul to the Romans and even in the introductory sentences we see some insights that help us to understand what this letter was about and why it was written the way it was. For some reason I often thought that this letter was written after…
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Evangelism Primer from Apostle Paul
(Acts 17:16-34) One of the things we see in the work of Paul and the other apostles, apart from the teachings they taught, is how they spread the word of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When Paul arrived in Athens in Greece, while waiting for his co-workers to catch up he wandered the streets of…
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A Question of Trust
(Acts 9:26-31) I can imagine the conversation Paul must have had when he came to Jerusalem after he had been secreted out of Damascus by being let down over the wall at night. Paul had been out of circulation for about three years and this was his first visit back to Jerusalem since his Damascus…
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A Chosen Instrument
(Acts 9:10-18) Saul who became Paul had just been through the Damascus road experience and his life had been turned on its head in an instant. The Lord Jesus appeared to him in a bright light and spoke to him showing how he was hurting himself by continuing to oppose The Lord. Paul at this…
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Wisdom of Gamaliel
(Acts 5:33-42) As humans we frequently generalize about all kinds of things. We make broad sweeping statements and too often it is wrong to do so. Paul pointed this out in the Bible when writing to Titus in Titus 1:12 saying, One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil…
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This Life
(Acts 5:17-20) These scriptures hold a few interesting teachings that bear thinking about. They firstly show the nature of man and the opposition that those who follow Jesus will receive. Then they go on to identify what it is that causes the people of the world to oppose the words of The Lord. We see…
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Taught By Jesus
(Acts 4:13) This one verse today is very interesting and one we should consider carefully today. It goes to the heart of ministry and who is capable of teaching the word of Jesus. Let’s first have a quick look at the verse itself. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived…
