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What Is The Purpose Of The Anointing Oil?

John 9:6-7 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way…

Often in conversation with someone, I’ll point out a scripture where Christ did something – calling someone a fool, for example (Matthew 23:19), or refusing to heal someone (Mark 7:27-28), or name-calling (John 8), or any of a dozen…

The Most Important Thing Is (Not) Family

“The most important thing is family.” “Family always comes first.” “My family is my whole world.” The entire world, Christian and otherwise, believes these statements to be self-evidently true, and self-evidently virtuous. That nothing…

The most divisive subject in the world is religion. On the one hand, this makes sense – none of us can really see God, so the idea that He exists at all takes a bit of effort to believe. Yet on the other, it doesn’t make…

Do you have saving knowledge? Do you know everything you need to know to be saved? Nearly every Christian in the world just shouted a resounding “absolutely!” And all of them are dead in their sins. Because saving knowledge does not exist….

If I tell someone to start keeping the Sabbath, their first thought is “but how can I do that, if there are no Sabbath-keeping churches nearby??” It has become thoroughly ingrained in the mind of every Christian that keeping the Sabbath/Sunday…

This is part 2 of a series; The True Cross is part 1. When Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden, they faced an enormous challenge. They were facing a life where they made their own destiny – for better or worse. They didn’t know…

This is part 1 of a series. For much of the last 2,000 years, archaeologists, saints, and crusaders have sought relics of the true cross. And throughout that time, many fragments of the true cross have been found – or were believed to…

(By Crystal Holmes) Why did God forbid things like seething a kid in his mother’s milk, wearing garments made of wool and linen, or rounding the corners of your head? Why not let an ox and an ass plow together? Why not mix your seeds or practice…

(By Crystal Holmes) How does God lead His people? Is it laying something on their hearts? Is it by speaking to them directly? Is it by some other method? You might think you are pleasing to God because He frequently “lays things on your heart”…