Thanksgiving—to many Americans evokes the thought of a major holiday, long considered “turkey day”—a day for food, family, and football. Very little consideration, if any, is given to the significance, importance, or practice of “giving thanks.” What intrinsically is “giving thanks”? A profoundly simple definition of giving thanks to God is “to speak God as
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The Four Crucial Elements of the Bible There are four crucial elements of the Bible—Christ, the Spirit, life and the church. These four are the essential, fundamental, and ultimate elements that characterize the Bible. Christ is the wonderful, all-inclusive center of the entire Bible and the Scriptures testify concerning Him (Luke 24:27, 44; John 5:39-40).
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Needing the Excellency of the Knowledge of the All-inclusive Christ This week I was nourished by appreciating the many wonderful items of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew. In this post I will focus on Christ as the bread, even the crumbs under the table (Matt. 15:21-38) and the One with all authority (28:18-19). Before
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You may question whether such a thing is actually possible. But if you examine the Bible thoroughly, you’ll discover that it is very possible and even practical to eat the tree of life every day. In this post I’ll introduce how you can begin eating this life tree today. Because the tree of life revealed
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Today, I am hosting a guest post for Phil Watson, a dear brother in the Lord, fellow pursuer of the truth, and new blogger with the same desire to “Hold to Truth in Love.” So let’s enjoy what Phil has to share with us concerning “The Tree of Life:” This post is part of a
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Today I have an uplifted appreciation for six items of the unsearchable riches of Christ revealed in Matthew 9. Christ is our Physician and Bridegroom, the unfulled cloth to make the new garment, the new wine to fill the new wineskin, and the Shepherd. So in this post we’ll consider the wonderful progression of the
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Today, I freshly appreciated the all-inclusive Christ in Matthew as the light of life, the Baptizer and the Son of Man. To me, it is not sufficient to merely know the teaching that Christ is such an all-inclusive Person. Rather, I desire to see Him, experience Him and enjoy Him as such a One through
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There are four crucial elements in the Bible—Christ, the Spirit, life and the church. To properly develop any Biblical truth, we should do it according to these crucial elements. For example, in order to dig out the inner kernel from the Gospel of Matthew, we need to extract the elements of Christ, the Spirit, life
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This week I enjoyed that there are four crucial elements in the Bible. These crucial elements—Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church—are the kernel, the extract of the divine revelation in the Scriptures. Christ became the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45), the Spirit is life (Rom. 8:2), and life produces the church (Eph. 2:21; 4:15-16). In this
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Knowing the truth personally requires that we first see a vision of what divine truth really is. Let’s consider a profound definition of truth, that will help us unfold its meaning. Grasping the meaning of truth, we will go on to see how to know the divine truth by being in the true One.
