Creation, F-SP, God's Plan, Love, Old Testament, Purpose, Identity, Torah
Charles Blair
Identity | Walking in Good Works: Understanding ...

There's a fascinating progression in Ephesians 2 that captures the essence of our relationship with God's Torah (Instruction) and "good works."

Identity | Walking in Good Works: Understanding Our Divine Purpose
Creation, F-SP, God's Plan, Jesus, Purpose, Sin, The Name
Charles Blair
THE GOSPEL OF THE NAME: God’s Purpose from the ...

From the beginning, God created humanity to bear His Name and fill the earth with His glory. Rebellion profaned it—from Eden to Babel to Israel’s failure.

Through Yeshua, the perfect Image, that Name is restored and exalted above all. The Gospel announces: God’s original purpose is fulfilled—His dwelling with us forever (Rev 21:3).

THE GOSPEL OF THE NAME: God’s Purpose from the Beginning
Appointed Times, Personal
Charles Blair
A Yom Kippur Surgery: God's Promises For Life's ...

Today, on Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement when God covers and makes whole - I enter the operating room …

A Yom Kippur Surgery: God's Promises For Life's Greatest Battles
Charles Blair
Teshuva For Beginners

In the book of Revelation, Yeshua speaks directly to seven assemblies. … They remain God’s warning and invitation to His people today

Teshuva For Beginners
Appointed Times, God's Plan, Holidays, Jesus, Passover, The Lord's Feasts, Pentecost, Shavuot
Charles Blair
FROM FIRSTFRUITS TO PENTECOST — THE PROMISE ...

This is not merely the conclusion of a counting of the omer (Lev 23:15-16) ; it is the culmination of covenant. The Torah was given at Sinai on this same day, fifty days after Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. And now, the Spirit is given on the same day, fifty days after our Passover Lamb, Yeshua the Messiah, was raised from the dead.

FROM FIRSTFRUITS TO PENTECOST — THE PROMISE FULFILLED

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Love Grown Cold: The Tragic Cost of Lawlessness

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aul's sobering description of the "man of lawlessness" (without "good works"; without Torah) in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 is particularly revealing. This figure is called the "son of destruction" …

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Seeing and Goodness Part 1: See-Saw ‘Love’ (God's ‘love’ Revealed )

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Seeing and Goodness Part 1: See-Saw ‘Love’ (God's ‘love’ Revealed )

Join me on a four-part exploration of Genesis chapter 1 tracing a few key words in the creation narrative that reveal profound truths of God's character and purposes. In This Part 1, "God's ‘love’ Revealed," we will see that God ’saw’ His new creation, and fell in ‘love’ with all He had made. The writer of Genesis reveals creation in a 4-part pattern:

  1. God ‘commands’ – “Let there be…, Let the ….”

  2. God ‘sees’ – “God ’saw’ that it was …)

  3. God ‘names’ – After each ‘Let there…’ is a name or description of what should be.

  4. God ‘judges’ – As He ‘sees’ what He created, He judges it as ‘good.’

 
 

LOOKING AT scripture from a first-sentence perspective.