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A Kingdom For The Asking

A Kingdom For The Asking

The religious and political upper crust of first century Jewish society thought that they were finally getting just what they’d been wanting for ages.  Money had changed hands.  A secret arrest had been made.  The man at the top of Jerusalem’s ‘most wanted’ list could not rightly be called public enemy number one, because he wasn’t an enemy of the public—just a threat to the power structure.  But he had been hauled in and now stood bound before them.  After the skullduggery it had taken…

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Truer Words

Truer Words

Are the four gospels recorded in the Bible actual eyewitness accounts of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as they claim?  The language itself argues that they are indeed.  I invite you to examine with an open mind, clues found in the words used in the last (24th) chapter of the Gospel of Luke, to describe the events that transpired after Jesus’ burial.  It is both illustrative of and representative of what you will find in any of the four…

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The Quintessential Hero

The Quintessential Hero

Little children it seems, are fascinated by tales of an age-old struggle of good and evil, by mythical creatures, mad scientists, villains and heroes—especially heroes. Kids love the idea of a champion, someone strong, reliable and good, who always comes to the rescue in the nick of time, routs the bad guys and triumphs in the end. If the wicked wizards resort to magic, no worries!  Our hero just happens to have supernatural abilities that trump them every time. You would…

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The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth

The Christian faith is unique in the way that it permits its deity to be portrayed.  No tales told of other gods are anything like the picture painted of Christianity’s central figure, Jesus Christ.  To say that this portrait is very strange and oddly unflattering is to engage in understatement of the worst kind. Moreover, Christians—and even Christ, himself—have a most peculiar way of enticing others to embrace the faith as their own.  To illustrate the point, here is a selective synopsis of Christ’s résumé. Although…

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