Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes Christian Gnosticism (100 – 400 AD) As dualism became a default assumption in and outside Judaism and the early church, it evolved into a strange religion called “Gnosticism” that Christians quickly adopted. Gnosticism painted the world in “good vs. evil” more starkly than perhaps any religion before it. We can simplify the primary theology behind […]

Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:47-27:32, Mk. 14:43-15:20, Lk. 22:47-23:25, Jn. 18:2-19:15 On their own, Christ’s arrest and trials are fairly straightforward. Judas carries out his betrayal, injustice is done, and

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:69–75, Mk. 14:66–72 The disciples had seen Jesus do the miraculous and impossible. They heard the Father’s voice confirm Him at the Mount of Transfiguration in

Approximate Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Lk. 22:43-44 Much of what I’ve written so far has shown a deeper, more meaningful understanding of what the gospel writers recorded about the last seven days

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:42, Mk 14:35-36, Lk. 22:41-42 After supper, Jesus returns to a grove of trees called Gethsemane in the Mount of Olives. This is a difficult scene

Approximate Reading Time: 16 minutes As in all the churches of the saints, the women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says. But if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Lk. 22:3-4, Jn. 13:27 Satan has been God’s enemy since the Garden of Eden. He’s wanted nothing more than to see God’s creation reject Him. Yet, God

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This is an excerpt from my book “40 Moments From Christ’s Final Days.” Click here to get it from Amazon using my affiliate link. Find this moment in: Mt. 26:26–29, Mk. 14:22–25, Lk. 22:14–20 Churches frequently practice the Lord’s Supper, sometimes called Communion. In it, we have some bread, a drink made of grapes, and

Approximate Reading Time: 15 minutes [For the sake of my posting schedule and your time, I am posting segments of Chapter 2 as I write them. If you have any suggestions or comments, reach out through my contact form. To read everything released so far, visit the Satan and Spiritual Warfare page.] Second Temple Jewish Thought (300 BC – 100 AD) Egyptian,