Many of you know that I am a bit of a sports fan and I have been since I was a little kid. As a native Pittsburgher—I was two when we left—but the black and the gold was already a part of my inner nature. I bleed black and …
Jesus Christ was the object of the whole system of sacrifices. Every sacrificial animal was an unblemished, substitutionary offering that found its fulfillment in His life or death. In contrast, Satan is not involved in any sacrifice, …
While all four gospels mention Barabbas in their accounts of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on Passover day, Matthew, by a wide margin, pays the most attention to that aspect of the crucifixion story. He appears to have gone out of his way to …

(6) I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, (7) which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. (8) But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
Paul penned the book of Galatians because church members in Galatia were turning away from the true gospel and had embraced a false one (Galatians 1:6-7). Early on, Paul had to establish his credentials - that the gospel he preached did …
It should come as no surprise that the Day of Atonement is the most unusual holy day of the year. Each holy day has its distinctive traits. For example, the Feast of Unleavened Bread has us eating unleavened bread for a week, and Pentecost has the unusual aspect of counting. But for outsiders, Atonement is just plain weird. They think it very strange that we will voluntarily not eat or drink for an entire day. Of course, in this distinction - called "fasting" or "afflicting our souls" - resides a great deal of the day's spiritual instruction. Fasting teaches us to realize just how …
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