The Four gospels, Matthew Mark, Luke, and John are quite similar as the all follow the same life of Jesus. Why not just one authoritative gospel? God has his reasons, but I say we are blessed. Matthew portrays Jesus as a master teacher and lays out 5 great speeches of Jesus. How precious is the complete Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes? Mark presents Jesus as a man of action. How much insight do we get from Jesus family …
A risk in the Christian life is making the Bible say what we want. We all do it, but it is never good, Let’s think about this. God moved people to write certain things in the Scriptures. These people were real people in real cultures at a real place and time. God and the writers meant something when they wrote. Many times their situation or culture makes what they did seem not right to modern Western eyes. However, we can …
Christian Nationalism in 190 countries is God’s plan? Can we find any taste of that in the ministry of Jesus? However, lots of countries have this strange thing happen. . The US is the most famous, but many countries have these Christian Nationalists. Russia is a big one. Each Christian nationalist looks down on other countries, so each somehow hated the other even if cooperate. If the Christians nationalists take power in each country, they will each hate the other …
