Author: jchowning

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            The world’s most sublime and most practical book is the Bible.    Send article as PDF   

            New Testament Christianity—the redemption of humanity in Christ Jesus—is God’s marvelous mystery. It was hidden in God from the beginning of the ages. But now, the mystery has been revealed. Now, the manifold wisdom of God is made “known by the church to the…

            “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages…

            “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I…

            Like modern-day Masons, the first century had its own mystery religions. Coded greetings, secret handshakes, covert initiations are part and parcel of such societies. Such secrecy creates curiosity which—if exploited successfully—leads to increased membership.    Send article as PDF   

            “…in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:21-22).    Send article as PDF   

            “having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:20-21).    Send article as…