The Caananite Woman

Reading the Caananite woman narrative in Matthew 15:21-28, my ESV translation puts a subtitle: The Faith of a Caananite Woman. I agree that the woman’s faith was indeed exemplary compared to the Pharisees (Matthew 15:1-20) who are a part of the lost sheep of the house of Israel to whom Jesus Christ was sent to (15:24) . But according to [...]

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Panoply Series – Introduction

One of Ephesus’ most famous structure of antiquity today is the Temple of Artemis (what remains of it) which is recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.  From the account in the book of Acts (ch. 18:24 – 19:41; 20:17-36), the place was marked with the worship of the goddess Artemis, demonic possession, occult and [...]

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Post by Email

“This is a test on this “blog by email” facility.”
Yesssss! Neophyte bloggers like me have fun when discovering and learning some new facilities with WordPress.  I can now blog  using an email address generated automatically for me!  Really, this is becoming very interesting.

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The Heart of the Matter

  

                         
PRAYER OF A MINOR PROPHET
(the covenant and prayer of a preacher)
 A. W. Tozer
 

 

 
This is the prayer of a man called to be a witness to the nations. This is what he said to his Lord on the day of his ordination. After the elders and ministers had prayed and laid their hands on him he [...]

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Grace in Africa

In a recent news item, the most perceivable growth in religious fervor is in the African continent. That alone made my heart leap. It further mentioned that Christianity was the religion in focus…but no sooner was the downside of the report. As the commentary proceeded, I learned that it was the “positive confession movement” that [...]

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Automatically-generated articles

Links to “possibly related articles” are generated by WordPress.com whenever you try to submit a comment on some of my posts. Please exercise discernment! Unless they conform to the whole counsel of God in the Scriptures, they are to be rejected.
“The unfolding of Your Word gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.” – Psalm 119:130 ESV

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The Householder and His Treasures

Friday here and its our group’s (Jesus our Good Lord, or simply JOGL) bible study day.
We are studying the Parable of the Householder in Matthew 13:51-52. Although the parable itself is in verse 52 only, it is important to connect the 51st verse.  The Lord Jesus Christ has just finished teaching a group of parables for [...]

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Hello world!

Welcome to my blog !!!  This is  my first time to foray into the blogosphere…and I am soooo excited. I am building this site as I go along learning about it.
The blogname - Emmaustrekker – came from the Emmaus road narrative in Luke 24 of the New Testament bible and ‘trekker’ which is a term commonly used [...]

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