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According to Christian tradition, Jesus died on Good Friday around 3 p.m. – the ninth hour of the day (Matt. 27:45-46; Mark 15:33-34; Luke 23:44). He was buried at about 6 p.m. (Luke 23:54), and then on Sunday, at dawn, Jesus rose from the dead. Yet, according to Matthew 12:40, Jesus said, “For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of ...
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In Genesis 29 we meet the girl nobody wants. Jacob chooses Rachel over Leah because Rachel is beautiful in appearance, and Leah is less than desirable. Laban then looks for an opportunity to pawn off his eldest daughter so that he is not stuck taking care of her. He masterminds a con to get rid of Leah by deceiving the deceiver Jacob, exploiting and transferring his daughter from one man to ...
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The role of the husband in the Bible is weighty and sobering to men intoxicated by selfishness and flippancy. It is a radical call amid a culture that values immediate happiness and comfort over commitment. Ephesians 5:25:30 lays a foundation for this call, as Christ demonstrates robust love, by giving His life to redeem His bride. He makes His ransomed bride holy by cleansing her and presents ...
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On Sep. 26 Jews all over the world will observe Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is the holiest and most solemn day of the year for the practicing Jew, revered with contrition, confession and repentance. But what does this Jewish observance have to do with Christianity? Every year, Yom Kippur pictures man’s need for redemption through a substitutionary sacrifice that would one day be ...
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At the heart of the word “courage” are ideas of boldness, fortitude and resolve. These three closely related words together provide a robust understanding of courage. Boldness is the confidence to take a risk – initial courage. Fortitude is the firmness of the mind without retreat – sustaining courage. Resolve is the determination to reach the end goal – persevering courage.
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Psalm 22 prophetically portrays the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, the day Christians remember the Suffering Servant who became a curse for us (Gal. 3:13-14). It conveys the agonizing death of the Christ more than a thousand years before it actually occurred on Calvary.
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“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life” (Prov. 13:12). This proverb incisively captures the longing to see a promise fulfilled. In Acts 2, Peter recalls God promising David to one day raise up one of his offspring to be king of an everlasting kingdom (2 Sam. 7:1-17). David never saw this promise realized, but he told of it. David was not merely a ...
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So what will our new resurrected bodies be like? Paul writes in Philippians that his desire is to know Christ and the power of His resurrection so that he would attain his own resurrection (Phil. 3:8-11). On the one hand, the Bible doesn’t give us the exact details of the resurrected body. On the other hand, we are not completely unknowledgeable of what it will be like. We see through a mirror ...
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