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Why “Arabia” Is Not an Incidental Detail A Silence Loud Enough to Preach There is a hole in the New Testament record roughly the size of a seminary education. Luke, who tracks Paul across two continents and counts the days of his sea voyages, says nothing about it. Paul himself disposes of it in a…
An AI Exposition and Supplemental Bible Study of Luke 18:1–8, as preached by Pastor David Jerome at East Valley International Church, September 13, 2026. The Parable of the Persistent Widow Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest . And he…
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A Narrative Theological Survey of the Sixty-Six Books He Is the Theme: The Christ-Centered Architecture of Holy Scripture • • • Introduction: The Stranger on the Road Two men walked west from Jerusalem on the first Easter afternoon, and they walked in the wrong direction for the right reason. Their hope had died three days…
When exegesis is not your forté. A sermon circulating in Presbyterian circles argues that Jesus committed an ethnic slur in Matthew 15:26, was corrected by the Canaanite woman, and repented by widening his mission — all on the premise that being wrong is not the same as being sinful. This essay dismantles that argument on…
A Theological and Practical Examination of Koinonia in the Modern Church Introduction: Eleven Minutes Stand in the back of almost any evangelical church in America on a Sunday morning and time the emptying of the sanctuary. In most congregations it takes about eleven minutes. The benediction is pronounced, the instrumentalists play something warm and unhurried,…
The Argument for God That Even Skeptics Take Seriously ❧ ————— ❧ ————— ❧ Introduction: A Question Written in Stone Stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon at first light, and you are looking at a question rather than merely a landscape. A mile of stratified rock falls away beneath your feet — sandstone,…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 13:31-35 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: The Courageous Compassion of Christ — Luke 13:31-35 This sermon on Luke 13:31–35 casts Jesus as utterly ungovernable by human threats and heartbreakingly unwilling to abandon Jerusalem to its chosen ruin. Pastor…
Lesson 5 The Dramatic Journey of the Bible to Modern Believers Introduction and Purpose of the Study Our study series has been to strengthen the class’s confidence in the Bible as God’s Word before transitioning to a longer “real-life discipleship” study. The aim is not deep theology but historical literacy: helping believers articulate not only…
Image: A digitally enhanced photo by this author of the Gilbert, Arizona LDS Temple. A Historical and Theological Examination of the Most Sacred Mormon Rituals ❦ ❦ ❦ Introduction: A Cathedral Built in Seven Weeks On the second floor of a modest mercantile building in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the warm morning of May 4, 1842,…