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God Makes Himself Known through Jesus

Every Christmas for many years, Paul Harvey would retell the parable of the Man and the Birds.[1] In brief, it involved a man who saw a flock of birds in distress on a cold snowy morning. He tried to get them to go into a nearby barn for shelter, but they would not go. He…

God Makes Himself Known Through Scripture

In two previous articles we talked in a general sense about what revelation is, and how God has revealed some things about Himself through the things He created. Look’s look at how God makes himself known through scripture. Now we come to the first of two avenues of revelation known as “special revelation.” In this article…

An Introduction to Typology

When Jesus came into this world, He entered a scene that was thousands of years in the making. It was His making – intentionally crafted to reveal who He was and what He came to accomplish. The more we understand of how God set up this scene, the richer our picture of Jesus becomes. Along…

Facing Temptation

Matthew 4:1 tells us that “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” While there, Satan tried hard to get Jesus to go “off script,” to take the easy way out, to place His own physical and emotional needs above His mission. You can read about it in…

The Bronze Snake

“Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him” (John 3:14-15). What is the Bronze Snake in the Bible? The Israelites were at it again! They had been wandering around in the wilderness for a…