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Christ Over All is a fellowship of pastor-theologians dedicated to helping the church see Christ as Lord and everything else under his feet.
Joined July 2022
"Lord willing, this month will help you better appreciate and understand what the Gospels are, so that you might discern ways that the Gospels are misused or denied in the public square.".~@DavidSchrock .
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Join us in August as we turn from July's discussion on the Nicene Creed to beholding the four witnesses—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—to the one gospel of the Triune God.
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So what is a parable? . “A short, simple-yet-profound story based in the real world that provokes the listener.”. From Jeremy Meeks 👇.
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Jesus's parables can me challenging to interpret, and more challenging to preach. Jeremy Meeks sheds light on the practice of preaching the parables as he explains one of Jesus's most famous: the...
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In his essay on Mark 13, @TrentHunter makes the compelling case for understanding the passage to be—not about Christ’s second coming—about Christ’s crucifixion and exaltation. Read his reasoning in the link below 👇 .
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Sometimes Bible passages don't mean what we think they mean. So it is with the Olivet Discourse of Mark 13.
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RT @MBTS: How did we get the four Gospels?. Read the new article on @Christ_OverAll by @drjohnmeade, Professor of Old Testament at MBTS: ht….
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Why did only four Gospels come to be recognized as authoritative, while others faded from use in the early church?
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RT @TextandCanon: At Christ Over All today, director @drjohnmeade briefly explains how we got the four Gospels.
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"In reading the Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John, one encounters the authentic stories of Jesus and the narratives that most closely cohere with the earliest description of the traditionally preached Gospel in 1 Cor. 15:3–4.".~@drjohnmeade .
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Why did only four Gospels come to be recognized as authoritative, while others faded from use in the early church?
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"Over the ages the voices of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are extraordinarily resilient and always seem to come through. Sadly, however, Peterson’s The Gospels is not the place where that happens.".~Nicholas Piotrowski (@IndyTheoSem).
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This is what happens when the gospels are ripped out of their contexts, psychologized, and discussed by one of the most famous cultural commentators of the day.
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RT @joe_rigney: And here's another attempt at placing some boundaries from Clint Manley at @Christ_OverAll:
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Properly wielded satire can be a weapon of exposing sin in the hope of reform. What are its rules of engagement for Christians?
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"Jesus both drew on that Old Testament background and uniquely applied the negative identifier 'this generation' in the gospel of Matthew.".~Carson Griffin .
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Who is “this generation” in Matthew 24:34? Jesus targets his contemporaries, likening them to the flood and wilderness rebels, and so foreshadows final judgment—urging faith in and obedience to him...
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“In the end, I believe walking the way of Comer could cause you to miss the way of Jesus altogether.”.~@jonwoodyard . Link to review essay below 👇 .
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John Mark Comer's book Practicing the Way is a New York Times Bestseller, but does it faithfully teach on sin, repentance, and salvation?
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RT @jonwoodyard: “My main problem with the book is that Comer pushes to the periphery what the New Testament places at the center: the deat….
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John Mark Comer's book Practicing the Way is a New York Times Bestseller, but does it faithfully teach on sin, repentance, and salvation?
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RT @LaurensPruis: Does Matthew 25 teach salvation by works?. I had the privilege of discussing that question in this article for @Christ_Ov….
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Final judgment in Matthew 25:31–46 hinges not on works themselves, but on covenantal allegiance to Christ—the promised Seed of Abraham—where love and mercy toward his followers reveal genuine faith...
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Tolle, lege. Link to @LaurensPruis’s essay: “The Sheep, the Goats, and the Dividing Line of Father Abraham: Does Matthew 25:31–46 Teach Salvation by Works of Mercy” in OP. ⬇️
Does Matthew 25 teach salvation by works?. I had the privilege of discussing that question in this article for @Christ_OverAll.
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RT @AndyNaselli: The Reliability of the Gospels—@TrentHunter and Steve Wellum interview Guy Waters for @Christ_OverAll: .
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"Matthew’s overall message is that the Lord has finally fulfilled his promises to Abraham and David by inaugurating an eternal kingdom and constructing his end-times temple, only through Jesus’s death and resurrection.".~Nicholas Piotrowski (@IndyTheoSem).
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What is the Gospel according to Matthew all about? A royal Son of Abraham and David who builds a worldwide temple. Keep reading to find out what this means, and how this life-changing message arises...
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Tolle, lege 👇.
“Because He is raised, He can raise the temple in Himself.” – New from Dr. Piotrowski at @Christ_OverAll, showing how Matthew’s Gospel reveals Jesus fulfilling God’s promises to Abraham and David through his death and resurrection. Read the article here→
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"The apocryphal gospels are disqualified from serving as reliable historical sources of the life of Jesus due to their unknown (pseudonymous) authorship, gnostic theology, and late date of writing (second or later century).".~Andreas Köstenberger.
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The four canonical Gospels tower head and shoulders above any alleged rivals and are alone to be trusted as authoritative eyewitness sources of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
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Q: Do Some People Really Believe that a Dead Man Came Back to Life?. A: Yes. Nicholas Piotrowski's essay takes on the bankrupt competing theories to Christ's resurrection. 👇.
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What really happened to Jesus of Nazareth? Is there any reasonable explanation for the Jesus phenomenon other than the resurrection? And if Jesus really did come back from the dead, what does that...
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"The Gospels that we possess are uncompromisingly historical documents and do not shrink from being subjected to the most careful analysis and examination.".~Guy Waters.
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Christianity hinges on history: if the Gospels are not trustworthy accounts of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection, the faith collapses. But are they myth shaped by early belief, or historical...
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