Category: Scripture
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Parables with the Same Basic Message (#1)
Have you ever told multiple stories to explain or expand upon a point? Maybe you were telling your friend how much of a blessing your parents were. You started with a story about how they came to all of your football games as a kid. And then you told a story about some time…
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Biblical Warrant for Sunday School – Word-Centered
The Benefit of an Adult “Sunday School” Time – Part 3 This is the third post on Sunday school. This post seeks to give a second reason for why we have biblical warrant for something like Sunday school. Here we will look at the need to be in God’s word as a church and…
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So, What Do I Do with That? Part 2: The Bible as How Things Are
Sometimes our Bible reading can leave us profoundly stumped and not for the right reasons. In the first part of this series, we talked about biblical application, that applying what the Bible says is believing what the Bible says. In this second part, we will expand upon that idea and notice that the Bible…
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So, What Do I Do with That? Part 1: Applying the Bible
Reading the Bible can be hard work. There are difficult concepts and ideas to think through. Sometimes the Bible is just confusing because of locations, peoples, and historical realities that are now foreign to us. Yet we believe that God’s word is essential for us to live lives pleasing to him (Psalm 1; Matt…