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Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 13:22-30 (ESV) Summary of Expository Sermon: Luke 13:22–30 Strive to Enter the Narrow Door Opening Review and the Growth of the Kingdom Pastor Joey begins with a review of the prior week’s text (Luke 13:10–21): Jesus heals a woman bent over…
A Christian Examination of the Latter-day Saint Doctrine that the Atonement Was Accomplished in the Garden of Gethsemane ✦ ✦ ✦ Introduction: A Tale of Two Gardens Ask a hundred traditional Christians where the atonement of Jesus Christ was accomplished, and ninety-nine will point to a hill outside Jerusalem’s wall called Golgotha, the Place of…
A Traditional Christian Examination of LDS Missionary Authority ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: The Doorstep and the Title Almost every American adult has met them. Two young men in dark trousers, crisp white shirts, conservative ties, and bicycles leaning against the curb. Pinned over their left breast pocket is a black plastic name tag bearing the…
AI, the Soul, and the Christian Imagination I. The Hour at Which We Stand In late February 2026, the Barna Group, working in partnership with the technology firm Gloo, published a finding that should arrest the attention of every Christian leader in the English-speaking world. Drawn from a survey of more than fifteen hundred American…
A Comparative Analysis of Method, Authority, and Argument Introduction: The Same Bible, A Different Book When a missionary from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Reformed evangelical pastor open the King James Bible to the same page, are they reading the same book? On the surface, the answer is plainly yes…
Why Biblical Faith Is Not Blind, Why It Is Not a Feeling, and How a Modern Disciple Can Walk in Both Reason and Trust Introduction: A Bandage Tied Across the Eyes Somewhere along the way — between the Enlightenment’s confidence and the modern internet’s noise — the word “faith” acquired a bandage. The bandage covered…
The Covered Contract: Answering a Christian’s Refusal to Pray for the “Unspoken” Few small phrases spoken in the gathered life of a local church carry more freight than the single word “unspoken.” It surfaces in midweek prayer meetings, in Sunday school circles, in Facebook posts and small-group text threads, and it tends to land with…
Lesson 4 The Incredible Cost of Preservation of the Bible Introduction and Purpose of the Study Our study is a six-week informational series intended 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…
Image: Portrait of Ellen G. White at age 51 A Traditional Christian Examination of Doctrine, History, and the Prophetic Legacy of Ellen G. White Introduction: A Church That Resists Easy Categorization On any given Saturday morning, more than twenty-four million people in over two hundred countries quietly close their workplaces, gather their families, and walk…
A Traditional Christian Examination of Latter-day Saint Proxy Baptism ✦ ⬩ ✦ Introduction: A Woman in the River On a September day in 1840, a widow named Jane Neyman waded into the muddy current of the Mississippi River near the half-built city of Nauvoo, Illinois. She was not being baptized for herself. She had come…