Category: Kingdom Vs Religion
Truths of God’s Kingdom vs Christian religion
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Individual Salvation or Reformation of Society – Which Must Come First?
Introduction Evangelicals were given that label because their primary concern is to evangelize people, get them saved and ready to go to Heaven. I have learned over the past years that the prophet John, Jesus, the apostles, Paul proclaimed the Good News of the Kingdom. They were concerned that people surrender to King Jesus and… Read more
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Review of My 2025
Introduction The end of the year is a typical time to assess the past year and make plans for the next year. I usually do my seeking god and writing goals for the next year between January 2 and the 20th, my birthday. These last couple days of December, it’s time to do a review… Read more
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Do This, Remembering Me
Introduction In his first recorded letter to the Corinthians, Paul, a colony leader of King Jesus, took that gathering of believers to task for how they were doing the “Lord’s Supper”. He wrote, For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed,… Read more
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Why Make Such a Big Deal over Salvation?
Introduction My friend Chris has made another teaching video, Predestination and Election. It appears to be Part 1 of a series on the topic. In this video, Chris questions the Calvinist doctrine that says God has chosen (elected) certain people to be saved. He predestined them “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). I… Read more
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I Am Grateful For…
Introduction I wept with gratitude yesterday as I brought to mind the biggest temporal blessing I am grateful for this year. This Lonely One Placed in a Family Psalms 133 and 68:6 have long been favorite Bible passages of mine. For years, I have wanted the second to be fulfilled for me. God sets the… Read more
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Eating from the Tree of Morality
Introduction The Creator planted fruit trees in the middle of the garden in Eden. These included the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowing Good and Bad, that is, Morality. He told Humanity that they may eat of all of the trees except the second one. He said, “I only require that you abstain… Read more
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My Prologue about the Parousia
Introduction In 2020, N. T. Wright gave a lecture On the Future of the World. Listening to it recently, I remembered a novel I had written about monastic community evangelism during the coming Millennium. I opened with believers, alive and dead, rising into the air to greet King Jesus as He returned to Jerusalem to… Read more