In His great Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave full meaning to the Law of Moses. In doing this, He exercised His divine prerogative of interpreting scripture by explaining how to properly understand the Old Testament Law. Many people struggle to accept the truth that God is Jesus. Most believers have difficulty accepting that
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Dealing with things like the Sabbath, Sticks, Stones, and Sacraments through the Jesus Perspective. This TruthTalks podcast is based on THIS post and deals with two troublesome passages of scripture by looking at them from the perspective of what Jesus taught. Dr Christopher Peppler talks on the incident of the man stoned to death
The words Sabbath Sticks, Stones, and Sacraments sound strange as a title for an article, but let me explain. The Old Testament contains the disturbing story of a man stoned to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath. A millennium and a half later the Lord Jesus addressed the matter of Sabbath Law violations
What is a Trustworthy Saying? A couple of weeks ago, I prepared a sermon based on Matthew 18 titled ‘If your brother wrongs you’. At 6 pm on the Saturday evening, I got the news that a leading member of our church, and a long-term ministry colleague, had just died of a massive heart
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What happens when we take a Bible verse completely out of context? We get Gateways that go nowhere! We also get someone else’s philosophy thrust onto us, often convincing, but always based on a verse pulled from the Bible and used to communicate the author’s agenda. But how do we know if what we
Gateways usualy open into something, but every so often I come accross gateways that go nowhere. When something interesting, troubling, enlightening or important comes my way, I like to write a short article about it. Just the other day, someone sent me a booklet titled, ‘Gateways of the Threefold Nature of Man’. A quick
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Recently, I was challenged to name the four things I am sure of about God. It was an interesting and revealing exercise not only because of what made it into the top four, but because of what did not make it. I considered some of the attributes of God such as His omnipresence, omnipotence,
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In this third and final part of the Spiritual Gifts mini-series, TruthTalks looks at the differences between Gifts and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Please click on the play button below to listen to this podcast: If you have missed the
This is the third and last of my posts exploring some of the aspects covered in my newly published book ‘The 9 Spiritual Gifts & How to Find your Ministry’. Yes, it’s now available on Amazon Kindle and you can find it HERE. I mentioned in my last article that I wanted
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This podcast briefly explores one of the difficulties we have in appreciating Spiritual Gifts, which is the lack of biblical definitions. The manifestations of the Holy Spirit are listed in 1 Corinthians 12, but nowhere described. It is important for us to understand what the Spiritual Gifts are, because: