Posts by jjohnson
The Significance of Election
Election is the foundation of the gospel. Election is good news because sinful man is incapable of reaching God through the power of his parents, the power of his own will, or the power of his ethnicity. God does not choose to save everyone, because the devil real, and Adam’s decision to sin against and…
Read MoreProtected: How Were Old Testament Saints Saved?
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Read MoreDoes Jesus have a body, and why is this important?
Jesus had a body (Luke 24:39, John 20:24-26, Matthew 24:30, Acts 1:9) while on earth. The apostle John wrote that “The Word became flesh”, John 1:14. This fact established, the question still persists: does Jesus currently have a body? In 1 John 4:2, the apostle John wrote “By this you know the Spirit of God:…
Read MoreExplaining John 1:1 – “the Word was God”
2 Corinthians 2:3-4: “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”…
Read MoreHold things Loosely
Some of the world’s greatest poets have latched onto the idea that we ought to hold things in life loosely. Below is the entirely of the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, with the pertinent sections about “holding things loosely” in bold. There is a significant amount of wisdom in this poem! After the poem, I…
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