2 The reasons for this evaluation of the gospel are well-known and often repeated. First of all, John proclaims a replacement theology. 3 What John's Jewish contemporaries held dear the evangelist ...

If the Christian opponents are not "children of Satan," they are children of this world, "anti-Christs" (1 Jn 4:3, 5; 2 Jn 7). This is not significantly better. A generation ago, scholarship tended to ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

What is the Spirit of Truth? I like the NIV Study Bible footnote: “In essence and in action, the Spirit is characterized by ...

While some people wrongly assume that arrogance is what leads a believer to be fully assured he is going to Heaven, it is the ...

First in John's Gospel, Jesus said: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit (i.e. baptized), he cannot enter the kingdom of God." [John 3:5; RSV] In Mark's Gospel ...

This "secret sayings" gospel does not tell the story of Jesus ... When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will rule over all." 3 Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the ...

C. H. Dodd's Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically biblical ...

Luke's gospel begins with dramatic appearances of the angel Gabriel to Zechariah and to Mary. Gabriel foretells two miraculous births: the birth of John the ... at his baptism (3:22) and he ...

I went to the club's junior team practice last week with plans to go out in a boat on Bayou St. John with them ... to make do — trying to spread the gospel of rowing. The club is helping ...

www.nolafunkfest.com PRAISE FEST: The free, three-day outdoor gospel music experience will be held Oct. 18-20, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., at Bayou St. John on the ... entrance fee of $3 is required for ...