Modern-Day Apostle Illusion
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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion

In recent decades the question has taken on new urgency because of movements that ordain modern-day "apostles" and "prophets" with governing authority over networks of churches, sometimes claiming fresh revelation on par with, or supplementary to, the Scriptures the first apostles left behind.

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'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14
Biblical Context

'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14

In both Hebrew and Greek thought, a "name" was never merely a label for identification — it encompassed a person's reputation, authority, character, and standing.

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Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ
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Son of God vs Son of Man - A Series on the Two Titles of Christ

The titles *Son of God* and *Son of Man* for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.

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Jesus is God - A Series on the Deity of Christ
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Jesus is God - A Series on the Deity of Christ

This series works through the biblical case for the deity of Jesus Christ across eight posts, moving from the shape of the argument itself to the Old Testament foundations, the four Gospels, Acts, the epistles, Revelation, and finally the historic denials of the doctrine.

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God as Creator
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God as Creator

No created being, force, or material existed before or apart from God's creative act. The Father wills, the Son executes (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16), and the Spirit animates (Genesis 1:2; Psalm 104:30). Creation is a Trinitarian act from beginning to end.

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35 Min
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How Jesus Cast Out Demons
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How Jesus Cast Out Demons

The Capernaum crowd was not amazed that a demon came out — exorcists were a known quantity. What stopped them cold was how: no incantation, no ritual, no appeal to a higher power. Two words. The Gospel exorcisms are Christological claims, not case studies in method.

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6 Min
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Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied
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Part 6 - One Person, Two Natures - And What Happens When That Is Denied

The titles *Son of God* and *Son of Man* for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.

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16 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return
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Part 5 - The Son of Man in Glory - Judgment, Ransom, and Return

The titles *Son of God* and *Son of Man* for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.

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13 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself
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Part 4 - The Son of Man Among Us - The Title Jesus Chose for Himself

The titles *Son of God* and *Son of Man* for Jesus are often simplified to mean divine and human, respectively. However, Scripture indicates that each title encompasses both dimensions. This six-part series examines key passages for each title and explores how they unite in one person.

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14 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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I Can Do All Things Isn't A Success Slogan - Philippians 4:13
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I Can Do All Things Isn't A Success Slogan - Philippians 4:13

'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me' is widely quoted on merchandise, tattoos, and social media as a guarantee that Christ supplies strength for any goal. In popular use, this verse functions as a promise about outcomes.

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19 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Modern-Day Apostle Illusion
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Modern-Day Apostle Illusion

In recent decades the question has taken on new urgency because of movements that ordain modern-day "apostles" and "prophets" with governing authority over networks of churches, sometimes claiming fresh revelation on par with, or supplementary to, the Scriptures the first apostles left behind.

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23 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Twisting Scripture To Your Own Destruction - 2 Peter 3:16
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Twisting Scripture To Your Own Destruction - 2 Peter 3:16

This post stands over the whole Biblical Context series as its foundation. Every other post puts one dislodged verse back where it belongs; this one asks the prior question: by what right do we do that to the Bible at all? Peter says the harm falls first on the one twisting it.

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17 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14
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'In Jesus Name' Isn't a Magic Password - John 14:13-14

In both Hebrew and Greek thought, a "name" was never merely a label for identification — it encompassed a person's reputation, authority, character, and standing.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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Human Dignity & Worth
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Human Dignity & Worth

Every ideology answers the question of what makes a human being valuable, and many answers have ended in dehumanization. Scripture grounds dignity in the image of God — universal, non-negotiable, and inalienable regardless of race, age, ability, status, or moral performance.

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16 Min
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Truth & Integrity
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Truth & Integrity

Truthfulness is theology before it is etiquette. The God of Scripture cannot lie; the devil is the father of lies and has no truth in him. Every act of speech takes a side — and integrity is truth's structural form, the undivided person who is the same in every room.

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6 Min
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears

Most arguments for the Trinity are cumulative. A smaller, sharper category exists: scenes where all three persons appear at once, named together, doing distinguishable things in a single breath — the texts a God who merely changes masks cannot explain.

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6 Min
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Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?
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Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?

Israel confessed one God for fifteen centuries without confessing three persons. The Old Testament does not teach the Trinity the way the New does — it does something more interesting: it leaves the door open where a strict unitarian monotheism would have nailed it shut.

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The End of the Demons - Chains, the Abyss, and the Eternal Fire
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The End of the Demons - Chains, the Abyss, and the Eternal Fire

"Have You come to torment us before the time?" The demons do not ask whether they will be judged — only about the schedule. They believe the sentence is already passed. Scripture agrees: chains now, the abyss at the appointed hour, and a fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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5 Min
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Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as a warning, never as a relish.

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7 Min
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The New Heaven & New Earth
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The New Heaven & New Earth

The Bible does not end with souls floating up to heaven; it ends with heaven coming down to a renewed earth. The story that opens with "God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:1 closes with "a new heaven and a new earth" Revelation 21:1 — creation not discarded but reborn.

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The Final Judgment
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The Final Judgment

The crucified and resurrected Son administers judgment, which either completes salvation or confirms a rejection previously chosen: the believer, judged in his Substitute, proceeds to reward evaluation; the rejecter meets his denied word as judge.

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Human Dignity & Worth
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Human Dignity & Worth

Every ideology answers the question of what makes a human being valuable, and many answers have ended in dehumanization. Scripture grounds dignity in the image of God — universal, non-negotiable, and inalienable regardless of race, age, ability, status, or moral performance.

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16 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Truth & Integrity
Christianity Humanity

Truth & Integrity

Truthfulness is theology before it is etiquette. The God of Scripture cannot lie; the devil is the father of lies and has no truth in him. Every act of speech takes a side — and integrity is truth's structural form, the undivided person who is the same in every room.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as a warning, never as a relish.

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7 Min
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The Nature of Man
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The Nature of Man

The Bible's answer is clear and comprehensive: human beings are uniquely created personal beings who exist at the intersection of the material and the spiritual, made in the image of God, mortal yet immortal, temporal yet with an eternal destiny.

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17 Min
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How the Trinity Saves You
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How the Trinity Saves You

Taught as a puzzle to be managed, the Trinity is inert. The apostles handle it differently: the three persons appear most often in descriptions of how a person actually gets saved, each doing what the others do not — remove any one and there is no salvation left to describe.

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5 Min
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Law vs Grace
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Law vs Grace

As ways of standing righteous before God, law and grace are mutually exclusive — Scripture allows no blend: "if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace" (Romans 11:6). The Law's currency is doing; grace's currency is believing what has been done.

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6 Min
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Hell and Eternal Separation
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Hell and Eternal Separation

No biblical doctrine is more sobering, and none rests more directly on the recorded words of Jesus — who spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture, and always as a warning, never as a relish.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Heaven and Rewards
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Heaven and Rewards

The doctrine of heaven and rewards runs on the two rails laid at the start: salvation free, reward earned-in-grace — the gift secures the person; the bema assesses the work.

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6 Min
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Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do
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Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do

This two-part series works through what Scripture actually says about them, passage by passage, and where the popular picture has drifted from the text.

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9 Min
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Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are
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Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are

This two-part series works through what Scripture actually says about them, passage by passage, and where the popular picture has drifted from the text.

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11 Min
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Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation
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Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation

The Bible assumes a populated universe. Alongside the world we can see, Scripture describes an entire order of created beings — messengers, burning ones, living creatures, archangels, thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities — made by and ranked under God.

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Where Did Demons Come From?
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Where Did Demons Come From?

Most people assume Satan fell and took a third of the angels with him, and that those angels are the demons. It is tidy, and it is not what Scripture says. The answer comes from somewhere unexpected — four dense verses before the Flood that most readers skim on the way to Noah.

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6 Min
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The Kaaba, the Crescent, and the Name of God - What the Evidence Actually Shows
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The Kaaba, the Crescent, and the Name of God - What the Evidence Actually Shows

The claim that Allah was the moon god of pre-Islamic Arabia is vivid, memorable, and weaker than its confidence suggests — which matters, because it is where every Muslim rebuttal begins. This study takes the evidence apart and grades it: what is load-bearing, and what is not.

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Jinn or Fallen Spirits - What Islam and the Bible Teach About the Unseen
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Jinn or Fallen Spirits - What Islam and the Bible Teach About the Unseen

Both traditions affirm a real, invisible order of beings with a chief adversary who tempts, deceives, and faces judgment. On the surface, jinn and demons look like one category with two labels. They are not — the two accounts differ at the root, in what these beings are.

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6 Min
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Ancient African Kemetic
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Ancient African Kemetic

Kemet — Kmt, "the Black Land," named for the dark alluvial soil of the Nile floodplain — is the indigenous name for ancient Egypt, and Kemetic spirituality is the modern movement that seeks to recover and practice its religion. Two distinct things travel under the name, and both need to

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27 Min
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Who are the Seventh-day Adventists?
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Who are the Seventh-day Adventists?

Emerging from the Millerite movement and organized in 1863, Adventism affirms the Trinity, the deity of Christ, and salvation by grace — which is why it cannot be classed with Mormonism or the Watch Tower, and why its standing has to be argued on other grounds.

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13 Min
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears
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Three at Once - The Scenes Where the Whole Trinity Appears

Most arguments for the Trinity are cumulative. A smaller, sharper category exists: scenes where all three persons appear at once, named together, doing distinguishable things in a single breath — the texts a God who merely changes masks cannot explain.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?
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Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?

Israel confessed one God for fifteen centuries without confessing three persons. The Old Testament does not teach the Trinity the way the New does — it does something more interesting: it leaves the door open where a strict unitarian monotheism would have nailed it shut.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?
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Is the Holy Spirit a Person or a Force?

The Watch Tower teaches an impersonal active force, something like electricity — and it has a real argument, since you do not pour out a person. Grammar settles less than either side thinks. What decides it is the phrase "another Helper," and the things only persons do.

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6 Min
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How the Trinity Saves You
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How the Trinity Saves You

Taught as a puzzle to be managed, the Trinity is inert. The apostles handle it differently: the three persons appear most often in descriptions of how a person actually gets saved, each doing what the others do not — remove any one and there is no salvation left to describe.

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5 Min
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Raised in a Christian home, I came to faith later in life. A family crisis in 2019 drove me to study Scripture deeply, and by 2021 I answered my calling to ministry and teaching God's Word.

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