Category: Spirituality
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Beginning to Change the Focus
Mark: According To Part 6 Mark 1:14, 15 Beginning to Change the Focus At first the crowds flocked to hear John the Baptizer thunder out his prophecy of the coming messiah and call for repentance. Upon Jesus return from the wilderness and the events that took place in Jerusalem, (see John chapter 2) Jesus and…
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The Temptations of Christ
Mark: According to, The Temptation of Jesus by Satan Part 5 Mark 1:12, 13 For some reason, Mark pays little attention to the temptations of Jesus while Jesus was in the wilderness. Matthew devotes 11 verses, Luke 13 verses while Mark has only two verses devoted to the temptations that were faced by Christ. Mark…
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Galatians: Gospels in Conflict: The Libertarian Threat to Freedom part 11c
Galatians 5:12-15 Verse 13 marks the beginning of the intensely ethical section for Galatians. For about four and a half chapters Paul insists in the strongest possible terms on the principle of faith alone. Justification is for the ungodly; no man, however virtuous, can merit salvation; human works, obedience to the aw, are of no…
Pastor Lester Bentley 