Tag: Jesus
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ADVENT WEEK 2 TRANSLATION: MATTHEW 22:23-24:14
Here is the second week of Advent’s Gospel (read last week’s here, read last year’s here) readings for our year translated, by me, from the Greek New Testament. Not much in the way of textual issues this week; only one variant. The key theme here is that most of the text is Jesus against his…
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ADVENT WEEK 1 TRANSLATION: MATTHEW 21:1-22:22
Each Advent I spend some time in deep translation of the Greek New Testament. I love the GNT, but, oddly, my work as pastor keeps me from having the kind of time which I wish I had to study the Bible. But in Advent I just put everything on hold and shove it aside and…
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ALTERED ALTAR–WHY PASTOR GREENBEAN NO LONGER ALTAR CALLS
This morning in my email I received one of those ‘professional’ articles we pastors get all the time. I usually just dump them quickly from my iPhone while I’m working out. But today I lingered on the article and thought about it because it was about something I myself had wrestled with. The article was…
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A LOVE POEM ABOUT JESUS
Yesterday I preached the second in my three-part series on the work of the Trinity from Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21. I think it was the most effective sermon in the set. What I was attempting to convey is that love is the central work of Christ and that the love of God is embodied…