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May 2023

Reflection Questions: Six Surprising Things God Did for Jochebed (Mother’s Day 2023)

Reflection Questions: Six Surprising Things God Did for Jochebed (Mother’s Day 2023)

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Hebrews 11:23-27: “By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. 27 By faith he......

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Reflection Questions - The Quest for the Divine Presence 10: From Tabernacles to Temples (Series End)

May 07, 2023

Reflection Questions – The Quest for the Divine Presence 10: From Tabernacles to Temples (Series End)

Revelation 1:5-6 calls Jesus, “the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth … who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood and made...

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Reflection Questions - The Quest for the Divine Presence 9: ‘Drinking the Calf’ - The Literal Blood of Jesus, Part 3

April 30, 2023

Reflection Questions – The Quest for the Divine Presence 9: ‘Drinking the Calf’ – The Literal Blood of Jesus, Part 3

1 DeHaan, M. R., M.D., The Chemistry of the Blood (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1943) pp. 53-57.

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Reflection Questions - The Quest for the Divine Presence 8: ‘Trampling Underfoot the Son of God’ - The Literal Blood of Jesus, Part 2

April 23, 2023

Reflection Questions – The Quest for the Divine Presence 8: ‘Trampling Underfoot the Son of God’ – The Literal Blood of Jesus, Part 2

Greetings Church! As we’ve been studying the Blood of Jesus together in our worship services, I’m presenting some reflection questions that consider Jesus’ Blood in light of some of the themes we looked at during...

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Reflection Questions: Standing with Jesus Between Celebrations

April 16, 2023

Reflection Questions: Standing with Jesus Between Celebrations

Greetings Church! The questions I’ll present over the next few weeks will look at some of the themes we encountered in the Holy Week messages when we had no questions. May these questions help us...

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Reflection Questions - The Quest for the Divine Presence 6: The Heavenly Tabernacle

March 26, 2023

Reflection Questions – The Quest for the Divine Presence 6: The Heavenly Tabernacle

We’ll begin this time with some devotional considerations and then move on to more theological ones.

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Reflection Questions - The Quest for the Divine Presence 5: ‘Go West, Young Man!’

March 19, 2023

Reflection Questions – The Quest for the Divine Presence 5: ‘Go West, Young Man!’

The entrance to the Tabernacle complex was on the East side (Exodus 27:13). This meant that to enter the Outer Court (toward the direction of the Presence of God in the Holy of Holies), one...

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Reflection Questions: “O Lord, Make Me Know My End and the Measure of My Days!” (Psalm 39.4)

March 12, 2023

Reflection Questions: “O Lord, Make Me Know My End and the Measure of My Days!” (Psalm 39.4)

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Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 4: Within the Tent

March 05, 2023

Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 4: Within the Tent

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Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 3: The Covering

February 26, 2023

Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 3: The Covering

Although the ‘goat hair’ covering is depicted here as light with black ribbing, scholars almost universally understand it to be made of black goat hair.

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Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 2: The Christian Life as Tabernacle-Walking

February 19, 2023

Reflection Questions: The Quest for the Divine Presence 2: The Christian Life as Tabernacle-Walking

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November 2023

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Posted at: 26 Nov 2023

Reflection Questions - The Path of Growing Light: A Pre-Advent Self-Inventory (Selected Scriptures)

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Reflection Questions – The Path of Growing Light: A Pre-Advent Self-Inventory (Selected Scriptures)

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November 2023

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Posted at: 12 Nov 2023

Reflection Questions - Satan File 9: The Antichrist - His Mark and His Name (Revelation 13.11-16)

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Reflection Questions – Satan File 9: The Antichrist – His Mark and His Name (Revelation 13.11-16)

Daniel 11:36b: “What is decreed shall be done.” 1 Shaw, Robert, The Reformed Faith: An Exposition of the Westminster Confession of Faith (Scotland, UK: Christian Focus, 2008) p.81.

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Posted at: 05 Nov 2023

Reflection Questions - The Satan File 8: The Willful King (Daniel 11.36-39, Revelation 13.1-4)

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Reflection Questions – The Satan File 8: The Willful King (Daniel 11.36-39, Revelation 13.1-4)

Matthew 11:16a: “But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear!” 1 If time permits, revisit Paul’s list of end-time spirit trend with fresh eyes in lieu of recent events...

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October 2023

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Posted at: 29 Oct 2023

A Suggested Timetable of End-time Events

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A Suggested Timetable of End-time Events

Note: If you’d like a .pdf of the handout for this message, please e-mail Pastor Gene directly @ dontoro@comcast.net Israel not only had to exist as a nation for end-times prophecy to be fulfilled, she...

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Posted at: 22 Oct 2023

Reflection Questions - Satan File 7: The Appalling Vision (2 Thess. 2.1-9, Dan. 8.23-27, Rev. 13.6-8)

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Reflection Questions – Satan File 7: The Appalling Vision (2 Thess. 2.1-9, Dan. 8.23-27, Rev. 13.6-8)

2 Timothy 2:24-26: “And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them...

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Posted at: 15 Oct 2023

Reflection Questions - Satan File 6: “The Far Reaches of the North” – Satan & His Boy

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Reflection Questions – Satan File 6: “The Far Reaches of the North” – Satan & His Boy

1 John 2:18: “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.”

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October 2023