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Pray For

Pray For  – A start on the topic of “things to pray for”:   Prayer as Hope One of the great shaping personalities of Protestantism was Martin Luther. We sometimes have the impression that all this brilliant monk did was nail a list of protests on the church door in Wittenberg. Nothing could be further […]

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Know

When translating teams translate from Greek to English it is not easy to be exact but to keep the sense and the context of the text.  This study is taking 1 John 5:13-21 and showing that six (6)  times the Greek word (Oida) was translated as ‘know’.  That in V.20 the Greek word (ginosko) was […]

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Silver-Coin

SILVER:  (Our Question:  Why the different Greek Words for the translated word “silver” or “coin”?)  –  Luke 15:8-10  –  8  “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 And when she has found it, she […]

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Reading The Bible

“Reading the Bible”  –  Question:  Why Read the Bible? Taken from the site address:  http://www.intouch.org/you/article-archive/content?topic=the_importance_of_scripture The Importance of Scripture – By Dr. Charles Stanley 2 Timothy 3:16-17 The truth of God’s Word applies to all men and women in every culture, in every age, in every walk of life. It is His supernatural manual that […]

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Word-Logos-Rhema4

Listed below is a quote from John MacArthur.  I am comfortable with his explanation of the two Greek Words and thus the end of the series on the two Greek words for “word”.  May this information help you to make a conclusion about the difference between Logos and Rhema. Eph. 6:17b “The term Paul uses […]

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Children-Parents

Children, Parents and Masters TEXT:  Ephesians 6:1-9(ESV) 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  2£“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),  3“that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”  4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, […]

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Marriage is..Eph.5 (4/4)

Marriage Is – Ephesians 5:21-33  (4/4) Ephesians 5:21-33(ESV) 21submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.  24Now as the […]

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HumilityIS

Humility IS Humility is something we have to continually guard against loosing it.  It is not a lasting quality this side of the New World (God’s Kingdom).  Only Jesus could say he was humble (Matthew 11:29) because mankind cannot.  If we were to say that we are a humble person, then by the fact of […]

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Word-Logos-Rhema3

This document consists of several sources concerning the word “Logos” – I’ve highlighted words, phases, and sentences to provide ‘an outline’ of the material if time doesn’t permit one to read the whole document.   Logos – The word Logos was used prior to John using it.   (From: Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary) LOGOSJohn deliberately used […]

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Word-Logos-Rhema2

This article contains various ‘sources’ to aid in understanding the two Greek words:  “Logos” and “Rhema”  –  (Most frequently translated as “word”.) Every Word of God  –  (Boice, J. M. (1988). Ephesians: An expositional commentary (251–252). In order to understand the nature of Paul’s teaching in this area we need to know that the word […]

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