Monthly Archives: June 2014

Monthly Archives: June 2014

Loving God with Your Mind

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Share this with your friends: Loving God with Your Mind Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment is.  He replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37) In the church today I think we’re pretty good at emphasizing loving God with all your heart and soul.  We emphasize connecting with God emotionally and spiritually.  This is a big component of worship today and that is good. …

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What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? – Part 3

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Share this with your friends: What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? This week we wrap up looking at what ancient writers outside the Bible had to say about Jesus.  We’ll look at two more and sum up all that we can put together about Jesus just from these little known sources. Pliny the Younger Pliny the Younger was a Roman author and administrator.  Writing to Emperor Trajan in approximately AD 112, he described the early Christian …

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What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? – Part 2

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Share this with your friends: What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? This week we continue to look at what ancient writers outside the Bible had to say about Jesus.  In doing so, we continue to see that they confirmed several key details that the New Testament authors reported about Jesus.  There are nine ancient non-Christian sources that wrote about Jesus (the same number that wrote about the Roman emperor of the day).  Last week we started …

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What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? – Part 1

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Share this with your friends: What Do Ancient Writers Outside the Bible Say About Jesus? We saw last week that some have said not enough was written about Jesus outside of the Bible, if he really did miracles and rose from the dead.  But considering what we have that was written about the Roman emperor at the time, what we do have that was written about Jesus is really pretty impressive.   In total we have about four times more …

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