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Matthew Wright
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To think of Godish coming kingdom in this 2-stage way. Knowing what time it was would be crucial for how they would’ve been live. In fact, though the question of the Lord’s “ Royal appearing” might seem to be quite unrelated to the earlier. Questions of sex and money, they are all of a piece. If you are already living in the new world, they are new ways of behaving.
— Aug 21, 2026 10:33AM
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Matthew Wright
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Sex and money are important, but they are not to be worshiped. Sexual priority, and financial generosity, or to be built into the Christian DNA from the start.
— Aug 20, 2026 06:47AM
Matthew Wright
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Money was part of Christian. Discipleship from the start. Paul had agreed with the “pillars” in Jerusalem, that he would go on “ remembering the poor”; that was one of the signs of the new community that would carry forward as an identifying Mark for centuries to come.
— Aug 20, 2026 06:47AM
Matthew Wright
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Unbridled, crazy, and inflamed lust is a sign that one does not know God. Sexual holiness isn’t just a “rule,” in arbitrary commandment. It is part of what it means to turn from idols and serve the true and living God. It is part of being a genuine, image-bearing human being.
— Aug 20, 2026 06:47AM
Matthew Wright
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When the Romans closed in on Jerusalem in the last months of the war, crucifying so many Jews that they ran out of timber for crosses, Josephus records sorrowfully that more Jews were in fact killed by other Jews than by the Romans themselves.
— Aug 16, 2026 05:50PM
Matthew Wright
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Any "power" that they have comes not from their own quasi-divinity, but from the fact that humans, worshipping them, have given to the malevolent forces that use their name as a cloak the authority that God always intended humans themselves to exercise.
— Aug 12, 2026 03:24PM
Matthew Wright
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the powers that have gripped the pagan world and the fake "gods" that these "powers" have used to deceive the nations have been overthrown. Zeus, Hermes, and the rest have been shown up as shams. They simply do not exist.
— Aug 12, 2026 03:24PM
Matthew Wright
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it is time to turn away from all this playacting and experience the power and love of the God who puts all the gods to shame.
— Aug 12, 2026 03:23PM
Matthew Wright
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People often think of "miracles" as the "invasion" of the natural order by a force from outside. That wasn't how the early Christians saw it. For them, dramatic and otherwise inexplicable healings were seen as evidence of new creation, of the Creator himself at work in a fresh way.
— Aug 12, 2026 03:23PM