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HER STORY: Leaders in the Cause of Christ, Women Disciples an Introduction
The debate continues as to whether Scripture endorses, or at least permits, or rather forbids women from certain roles within the Body of Christ.
#WomenPastors #Egalitarian #WomenElders
The debate continues as to whether Scripture endorses, or at least permits, or rather forbids women from certain roles within the Body of Christ. May women be deacons? May women be elders? May women be pastors? May women be bishops? May women teach or lead in church?
At stake, of course, is how to live rightly before God, how to do what God has in mind, and to live within the space and the…
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#Egalitarian#equalitarian#mutuality#women deacons#women elders#Women leaders#women leaders in the church#women pastors
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“Strange Religion” by Nijay K. Gupta
I really enjoy reading Nijay Gupta’s work, and Strange Religion is just as interesting and appealing as everything else I have read from this author. I highly recommend it.
#StrangeReligion #WeirdReligion #NijayKGupta
Strange Religion, by Nijay K. Gupta, Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2024. 228 Pages
What Makes Christianity Weird?
What is it about Christianity that’s distinctive? Different than other philosophies of life, faith disciplines, and religions?
Nijay Gupta begins his book with a question that answers my own: “Why did the early Christians call themselves ‘believers’?” I had never really wondered…
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Revelation 20: Satan's Last Stand
What do Ezekiel and Paul have to add to John's oracle about Satan and the Lake of Fire?
#Revelation20 #LakeofFire #Ezekiel38 2Thessalonians2 #GogandMagog
Then, when the thousand years shall come to an end, the Adversary [Satan] will be released out of his prison, and he will go forth to lead astray the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them before the battle, of whom the number of them is as the sand of the sea.
Then they went up over the breadth of the earth and encircled the encampment of the holy and…
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#2 Peter 3#2 Peter 3:7-10#2 thessalonians 1#2 Thessalonians 2#eternal torment#ezekiel 38#ezekiel 39#fire from heaven#gog#gog and magog#lake of fire#Magog#Millennium#REvelation 20#Revelation 20:7-10#thousand year reign
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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, Jairus's Daughter
The story of Jairus’s daughter and the woman who suffered from a bleeding disorder are told together in all three of the synoptic gospels
#DaughterofJairus #BleedingWoman
Season 6, Christ’s Ministry: Jairus’s Daughter
The story of Jairus’s daughter and the woman who suffered from a bleeding disorder are told together in all three of the synoptic gospels—the gospels that more or less track with each other, Matthew, Mark, and Luke.I am going to be teaching out of Mark’s gospel, who has the most detailed account of these two stories. I believe this to be a true…
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#bleeding disorder#bleeding woman#Daughter of Jairus#hemorrhaging woman#Jairus&039;s daughter#Luke 8:40-56#Mark 5:21-43#Matthew 8:18-26
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The Tru316 Foundation
There are 66 books in the Bible, with 929 chapters, and 31, 102 verses. Over thirty thousand verses! But, The Tru316 Foundation focuses on just one verse: Genesis 3:16.
#Tru316 #Genesis316 #BruceCEFleming
The Tru316Foundation is one of several organizations I am affiliated with and recently received a prestigious award from, as appreciation for the work I have been doing in concert with Dr. Joy Fleming and Rev. Bruce Fleming.
There are 66 books in the Bible, with 929 chapters, and 31, 102 verses. Over thirty thousand verses! But, The Tru316 Foundation focuses on just one verse: Genesis 3:16. Yes,…
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#1 Corinthians 14#1 Coritnhians 11#1 Peter 3#1 Timoty 2#Bruce C. E. Fleming#Epehesians 5#genesis 3:16#Joy Fleming#tru316
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Revelation 20: First Resurrection, What Is It?
The whole earth will eventually be under the blessing of Christian rule, all the nations of the world will enjoy the benefits of living by Christ’s commands, ethos, values, and morality.
#TheMillennium #FirstResurrection #Postmillennial
Then, I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them—both the souls of the ones having been beheaded because of the witness of Jesus and through the word of God, and the same who did not throw themselves prostrate in homage to the beast nor the image of it, and did not receive the etched mark upon their forehead or upon their hand—and they became alive and reigned with…
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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, Mary of Magdala
We’ll first follow Mary through the years she was a student and supporter of Jesus, then we will spend most of our time in the Garden with Mary at Christ’s empty tomb
#MaryofMagdala #Magdelene #Resurrection #EmptyTomb #GardenTomb
Throughout his ministry, Jesus gathered around him men and women who became a community of 120 people joined in their love for and faith in Jesus. And one of those women was Mary of Magdala. She is mentioned fourteen times, in all four Gospels, and her name is almost always placed first, seemingly implying she was first in service, first in support. However, Mary’s most significant story appears…
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#empty tomb#Garden tomb#magdelene#Mary Magdelene#Mary of Magdala#Resurrection#who are you looking for#zeteo
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"The Creation of Patriarchy" by Gerda Lerner
Is it possible to trace the origins of the patriarchal systems that have been practiced worldwide for thousands of years?
#CreationofPatriarchy #GerdaLerner
The Creation of Patriarchy, By Gerda Lerner, Oxford University Press, 1986. 318 pages.
Is it possible to trace the origins of the patriarchal systems that have been practiced worldwide for thousands of years? Gerda Lerner (1920–2013), a professor of Women’s History, defined patriarchy as “the manifestation and institutionalization of male dominance over women and children in the family and the…
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Revelation 20: A Thousand Years, Literal or Metaphorical?
A hotly contested verb, and attest to how hard it was to figure out how to translate it. It means “to live,” or "to “be alive.” But in this context, it possibly has a different nuance.
#TheMillennium #FirstResurrection
Then, I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them—both the souls of the ones having been beheaded because of the witness of Jesus and through the word of God, and the same who did not throw themselves prostrate in homage to the beast nor the image of it, and did not receive the etched mark upon their forehead or upon their hand—and they became alive and reigned with…
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#Book of REvelation#Ephesians 2:5-6#Isaiah 65:20#John 5:24#REvelation 20#revelation 20:4-6#the first resurrection#the millennium
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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, The Cross - Symbol of Victory
Is the cross a symbol about death or life? defeat or triumph? humiliation or glory? Or all those things?
#Crossof Christ #Crucifixion #DiedforOurSins #ChristusVictor
Is the cross a symbol about death or life? defeat or triumph? humiliation or glory? Or all those things?
As I searched for answers, I became drawn to how Christians depicted crosses a thousand years ago and more, and that search became this fifteen minute video on the ancient symbols of Christianity.
From the eight-hundred-year old Batllo Majsty, now residing in in the Museu Nacional d’Art de…
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"Cultural Christians in the Early Church" by Nadya Williams
I would recommend Cultural Christians in the Early Church, by Nadya Williams, to exactly the audience the author specifies: those who yearn for the "good ole days" of the church.
#CulturalChristiansInTheEarlyChurch #NadyaWilliams
I would recommend Cultural Christians in the Early Church, by Nadya Williams, to exactly the audience the author specifies: those who yearn for the “good ole days” of the church.
Part 1
The first part is the least developed, from an academic point of view, and shows the author’s weakness (Biblical studies), but her topics are sensible. She pulls out three issues the apostle Paul was dealing…
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Revelation 20: The Abyss, The Seal, and the Devil
Now that we have reached the Millennium, possibly one of the most famous passages in the whole of the New Testament after the Gospels, the categories change to Pre-, A-, and Postmillennial interpretations.
#Revelation20 #TheMillennium
After reading through the first three chapters of Revelation, interpretation of this apocalyptic and prophetic document written two thousand years ago has fallen neatly into four categories:
Historicist commentators see the fulfilment of Revelation carried out in church history.
Preterist scholars see John’s Apocalypse as a word to those who lived through the destruction of Jerusalem—possibly…
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#a thousand years#amillennial#ancient serpent#Archangel Michael#devil#dragon#postmillennial#premillennial#REvelation 20#revelation 20:1-3#Satan#serpent#the abyss#the millennium
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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, The Wife of Pilate
Though the Bible does not give us much information about Pilate’s wife, she does appear in a number of ancient accounts that arose in the first few centuries of Christianity.
#Claudia #WifeofPilate #Procula #PontiusPilate
Of the several influential women in the Bible who are not given names—Job’s wife, comes to mind—the wife of Pilate is perhaps the most shadowy. All that is known of her from the scriptures is her relationship to the Procurator Marcus Pontius Pilate, and the message she sent to him while he was sitting on the Seat of Judgment in the Praetorium the morning Jesus of Nazareth was tried for…
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"Tell Her Story"
New Podcast with Max Botner.
Much has been written about the various ways to understand what the Bible has to say about women, and it is no new debate.
#TellHerStory #MaxBotner
Much has been written about the various ways to understand what the Bible has to say about women, and it is no new debate.
George Eliot (1819-1880)
In a number of her books, George Eliot (1819-1880) took note of the Dissenters, Protestant sects who recognized God’s call on women and men both to publicly preach and teach.[1]
Margaret Fell (1614-1702)
Before her came Margaret Fell (1614-1702),…
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Revelation: Preparation for the Millennium
Apocalyptic literature becomes especially meaningful for those who are suffering. When the going gets rough, it helps to see the light at the end of the tunnel, to know the last page of this story ends well.
#Millennium #SecondComing
We are poised to begin the last part of John’s Revelation.
The Arc of Revelation
Revelation: Over-Arching Story
During the three cycles of increasingly catastrophic troubles and woes to be experienced at the end of human history, John is given a series of visions revealing spiritual battles in the heavenly realms. Angel armies crash together, and cast out the enemies of God. A pregnant woman…
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#1000 year reign#amillennial#Millennium#postmillennial#premillennial#second coming#thousand year reign
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HER STORY: Christ's Ministry, The Widow's Mite
In this passage, Jesus teaches his disciples the difference between a false reading, and a true reading of scripture.
#WidowsMite #TwoPennies #Mark12
In the passage just before this one, Mark talked about the scribe who had asked Jesus about the greatest commandment and was impressed with Jesus’ answer.
Jesus was also pleased.
He told the scribe he was very close to entering the kingdom of heaven. With such a warm endorsement from a scribe, this was a rare teachable moment, the right moment, in today’s passage (Mark 12:35-44), for Jesus to…
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Women Disciples: Conclusion to the Series
The high view of Christ and of the Scriptures will lead Christians today to hearken to John’s portrayal of women and men in Jesus’s apostolic mission and support Christ’s work in calling women and men to every area of ministry and leadership in the church
The Twelve Elements in Jesus’s Call to Discipleship
The Greek verb ζητέω | zēteō held a centuries-old spiritual significance sourced in the Hebrew scriptures and was well-known to Jewish students of sacred writings. It means to seek God, in the hope that God may be found. Within a hundred years before Jesus’s ministry, it came to mean seeking the scriptures in order that God, and wisdom from…
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#Egalitarian#egalitarianism#equalitarian#equalitarianism#equality#mutualism#mutuality#women apostles#women church leaders#women disciples#women leaders in the church
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