Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,”
Mark 4:31
The mustard seed is not the smallest seed on the earth today, so how can this be reconciled with Jesus spea…
In Psalm 44, the psalmist seems to be mourning over the present conditions they are facing in Babylon.
You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations. (Psalms 44:11 NET)
All this has happened to us, ev…
Paul implies that the OT scriptures were veiled / not able to be understood. How can this be, that God would give guidance that they were not able to understand or comply with?
2 Corinthians 3:14 – But their minds were closed. For to thi…
In speaking of David becoming the father of Solomon, Matthew refers to Bathsheba as "the wife of Uriah" or "the one of Uriah" (τῆς τοῦ Οὐρίου), but 1 Samuel calls her simply David’s wife.
Then David comforted his wife,…
As David neared the end of his life, he calls Solomon to himself and gives him some final instructions recorded in 1 Kings 2:1-10. It starts out how you’d maybe expect, with David admonishing Solomon to be careful to keep God’s commands as…
If every word of scripture is true and inspired, why does Proverbs say this when this didn’t work out for even God himself?
Pro 22:6 ESV
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
And yet……
Note the apparent diversity of views in the NT about judging others:
We should not Judge
Matt 7:1, 2 – “Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it w…
Don’t these two verses contradict?
1st Kings 15:29 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had
destroyed him, according unto the saying of th…
Begotten of God for Sonship
Joh 1:12 BSB
But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
Joh 1:13 BSB
children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born…
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In Judges 7:5-7, God tells Gideon to make a test and to decide, based on the test, who will stay with him and who will leave. This is what what we are told from verse 5 about the test:
And the LORD said to Gideon, “You shall separate ever…
Premise: YHWH (God) made all things
Isaiah 44:24 (NASB)
Thus says YHWH, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, “I, YHWH, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself and spreading out the earth all al…