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Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. ~ Matthew 28:16-17

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Here are New Testament echoes of Genesis 22:1-19. The angel told the women to tell the disciples to meet the resurrected Christ in Galilee, and our text says that, somewhere along the line of communication, a particular mountain was mentioned. They went by faith. Did they really think He had risen from the grave and would mee… Continue

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. ~ Philippians 3:18-19

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In "Pensées," you will read this from Blasé Pascal: "How should they (philosophers) have provided you with a cure for ills which they have not even understood. Your principal maladies are pride, which cuts you off from God, and se… Continue

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." ~ Genesis 11:1-4

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On April 12th, 1961, Sovi… Continue

That power is like the working of His mighty strength, which He (God the Father) exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills everything in… Continue

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. ~ James 1:17

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The British Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990), one of the rather unheralded-in-America Christian intellectuals of the 20th Century, proposed that the modern media age's effect is akin to Plato's shadows-and-cave analogy. The people born and raised in a cave saw shadows on the cave walls and mistook them for actual people. Only when they walked o… Continue