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The real Miriam (Mary) and the falsehood attributed to her name

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MARY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT A faithful Jewish woman called Miriam who played a vital role in bringing Jesus into the world through the miracle of the virgin birth. She had other children in the natural way with Joseph after the supernatural conception and birth of the Lord Jesus – Matthew 13.55-56 Rejoiced in ‘God my Saviour’ – Luke 2.47 Present at the cross (John 19) and at prayer with...

Mary and Joseph, what really was at stake

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34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her...

The genealogy of Jesus

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Good morning friends! Welcome! Praise the Lord! I’m just thinking how everything is uncertain, dark around us, and you know, just reading the paper today, they’re probably going to move to another lockdown. All sorts of dreadful things are happening around us but let us remind ourselves also of the eternal truths, the scriptures, the Word of God, Jesus who has come, who is with us now, and...

Jesus in the Qur’an

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ESPAÑOL 简体字中文版 FRANÇAIS 繁體字中文版 Islam has stories about Jesus which it claims are true. Where they differ from the Gospel account, they say it is because the account in the Gospel have been altered by later writers. The Qur’an and the Hadith were written between 600 – 900 years after Jesus by people who lived in a different time and a different place with different culture to the people who wrote...

God the Holy Spirit in Jesus

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CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO FORMAT Paul wrote in Romans concerning the life within us. He says: 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of...

Nurturing family in the faith

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Now, within the family, the idea is not just to give life to children but also to care for them and also to teach them about God. When the new testament repeats the fifth commandment Paul adds to it in Ephesians chapter 6: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that...