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Is Speaking in Tongues the Only Sign?
In Pentecostalism, glossolalia (speaking in 'tongues') is the unmistakable sign that God has accepted a person, deriving from a misapplication of Acts 2:4, 38. The miracle of Pentecost was not the speaking incomprehensible gibberish, but …
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The Wavesheaf Offering
The Old Testament describes and commands many offerings for the Israelites in their worship of God. We are most familiar with the burnt, meal, peace, sin, and trespass offerings of Leviticus 1-5. However, other offerings, required to be …
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Christ as Redeemer
As we count down the fifty days to the Feast of Pentecost, we have been considering the book of Ruth's Boaz as a type of Christ, first as a provider and then as a righteous judge. Ruth herself typifies the Christian, called out of this …
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Matthew 25:24-27
(24) "Then he who had received the one talent came and said, "Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. (25) And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours." (26) "But his lord answered and said to him, "You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. (27) So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.
The tragedy of the story and the focus of the parable is the man who hid his talent. From him we probably learn the most. First, the talent was not his in the first place; it was on loan. Second, Christ shows that people bury their …
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Tearing One's Clothes (Part One)
by James C. StoertzThe Bible mentions individuals tearing or rending their clothes as a sign of mourning, repentance, distress, and rage. Depending on the translation, the Bible contains 48 to 50 occurrences of rending garments, including the actions of both individuals and groups. It is a profound metaphor, yet this world treats it mostly without the seriousness it deserves. Amos 4:1-11 describes such superficiality perfectly in a section following the “Cows of Bashan” passage of his book, but honest men know that it applies to us equally. Superficiality deals with a person’s lack of seriousness, empathy, …
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