Rahab the prostitute is mentioned in the New Testament three times, and in each instance she comes up aces. Five short verses into the New Testament, Matthew includes her in his account of Jesus’ family tree. A pagan prostitute mentioned in the same breath as Kings David and Josiah in the Savior’s genealogy––blasphemous! She’s flanked …
How can a bunch of crying Christians do the world any good?
My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:11 So, are you saying we’re supposed to just sit around and cry about how bad the world is? Aren’t we …
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The Kind of Heart That Wins People and How To Get It (Part 2 of 2)
This is the final piece of this “Winning Malchus” essay. We’ve hiked the peaks and valleys of our Christian methods of helping people find Jesus. Though there is no right method, there is a right manner, a good heart. We pick up the story after Peter lopped off the ear of a guy named Malchus in …
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The Kind of Heart That Wins People and How To Get It (Part 1 of 2)
“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise wins souls.” Proverbs 11:30 This is part of a larger essay that I call: "Winning Malchus." In the last couple of posts, I’ve been talking about the meeting of Malchus’ ear with the sharp edge of Peter’s sword. As was …
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When is a Sword Not a Sword? (Part 2 of 2)
In part 1 of “When is a Sword Not a Sword?” I talked about the danger of using the Sword of the Spirit as a weapon against pre-Christians. Peter was granted a sword and then used it to hurt a man instead of helping him. Some more along those lines… Do you see someone who …
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