Coming up with a comprehensive picture of the Sadducees isn’t easy. We have no writings from them. Aside from Scripture, our information about who they were and what they believed comes from outside sources (primarily Josephus and the Mishnah). And there’s a sparseness in these that makes almost everything they say more conjecture than conclusion.Continue reading “Letting God Be God”
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The World That Once Was . . . And Be Again (2) (Field Of Dreams)
If we dipped ourselves in the waters of the fourth chapter of the book of Acts, we’d get a look at a church that was functioning as Resurrection Central. We’d see: Some people were disturbed by the resurrection of Jesus (v. 2). The Sadducees didn’t believe in the resurrection while others that did thought it was something that would happen onlyContinue reading “The World That Once Was . . . And Be Again (2) (Field Of Dreams)”
The World That Once Was . . . And Could Be Again (1) (Field Of Dreams)
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who plows up part of his corn to plant a baseball field because some voices told him to do so in the movie, Field of Dreams. When he is finished, a team from the past (featuring Shoeless Joe Jackson), mysteriously comes out of the corn to play on the field. The badContinue reading “The World That Once Was . . . And Could Be Again (1) (Field Of Dreams)”
Thinking About The Atonement (2)
This much everyone agrees with—Christ died for our sins (1 Corinthians 15:3). But what exactly does that mean? How did His death bring us life? Here is the atonement in four parts. 1. Jesus honored God and His purpose in creating man fully and completely. He lived to do His Father’s will in a way that no oneContinue reading “Thinking About The Atonement (2)”
An Exalted View
David Blaine is an illusionist and stunt performer who has been in the public eye for a couple of decades. His most recent feat was to float upward to almost 25,000 feet while attached to over 50 large balloons in the Great Basin Desert in northern Arizona. As he was ascending, he spoke of havingContinue reading “An Exalted View”
The Resurrection and “Surprised by Hope”
Surprised by Hope (N. T. Wright), was published in 2008. I came across it about a year later and was so impacted by it that I immediately put together a series of messages on the resurrection and the profound truths that flow from it. It wasn’t that I didn’t have some understanding of these things prior toContinue reading “The Resurrection and “Surprised by Hope””
A Taste of Grace with Bruce Green 