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The Easter Quiz — See How You Do
One of the fruitful activities our extended family did for Easter this year was this biblical quiz I concocted. It generated some great fun, fellowship, and lots of conversation. Right answers won tootsie pops. See how well you do on these 10 questions. They start easy and get harder. Correct answers are at the bottom.…
READ MORE →Which Jesus Is the Jesus You Follow . . . and Serve?
No longer is Jesus the earth-bound, historical Jesus of Nazareth we have come to know and love in churches around the world every week. No longer is He the sleeping babe in a manger we celebrate every Christmas, or the boy who played in Galilee, or the man they hung at Calvary, or even the…
READ MORE →Oblivious Eschatology?
Dr. Billy Graham, in an exclusive interview in Whistleblower magazine (Dec. 2013), just declared that the “Second Coming is near” and signs of the end of the age are “converging now for the first time since Jesus made those predictions.” For the first time, oh, really? Graham continues, “Only Jesus Christ when he comes…
READ MORE →Extremely Harmful?
Here is one of many responses – but arguably the most interesting – to my pre-Christmas blog titled, “Little Jesus, Meek and Mild—Not Anymore!” See if you agree or disagree with T. Edward Price’s insights (used with his permission): Extremely harmful. Christians, as a group, are the most gullible and easily misled people.…
READ MORE →Little Jesus, Meek and Mild — Not Anymore!
For many Americans and millions of others our first introductions to Jesus were little nursery rhymes learned in childhood, such as: “Little Jesus, meek and mild ? Look upon a little child.” But He’s not like this anymore! The testimony of Scripture is, Jesus has changed—in major, magnificent, and significant ways—from his…
READ MORE →Transcending the ‘Second-Coming’ Charade
It’s a strategic mistake – IMO – to pander to the charade of popular end-time views that perpetuate false doctrines and traditions of men by employing non-scriptural terms and attached unscriptural concepts. As a result, the great eschatological debate has become an entrenched stalemate. Preterist Objection (from FB post): “You can call it…
READ MORE →What Counts as a Coming of Jesus?
The coming of Jesus is a much more relevant, vital, and greater reality than most of us have been led to believe. Therefore, let’s define what we mean. . . . My working definition for “a coming of Jesus” is this—It’s a personal and bodily intervention and/or manifestation of Jesus into the life…
READ MORE →Eusebius’ Three OT Comings of Jesus
Ever wonder why Jesus’ birth and earthly life is never called his “first coming” in Scripture? Because it wasn’t. Eusebius, a 4th-century Christian leader and writer who is often called “the father of Church history,” cited three Old Testament comings of Christ, Whom he refers to as the “second Lord after the Father”…
READ MORE →How Much Faith Did Jesus Have?
I posed this question to my weekly Bible study group last week. Here are the four answers I gave them: A) None B) Some C) Much D) Total. Which one would you pick? Most picked: D) Total. But the correct biblical answer is A) None. Why so? The biblical fact…
READ MORE →Critical Objections to Purging the ‘Second Coming’
(Objection #1): “To me you are quibbling over whether it is called his second (Heb. 9:28) or some other number, is really to miss the important point that all prophecy was fulfilled in A.D. 70.” (Objection #2): By setting Jesus’ A.D. 70 parousia as just one coming among many comings (even though you allow…
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