For centuries sins were only covered by the annual sacrifice of animals, serving as a type of better things to come. Jesus, the substance, died for the full-forgiveness of humanity once for all time! Receive the gift by faith and enjoy your constant right-standing with God.

It drove the self-righteous Pharisees mad when Jesus spent time with “sinners.” Their false traditions taught that to remain clean you must separate yourself from the unclean. Under their Old Covenant the clean were defiled by the dirty. Yet in this New Covenant the clean (Jesus) now justifies the unclean!

While the Law of Moses drives you out, the Grace of God draws you in. Preach the Law and people are sure to feel inadequate and unwanted. Preach the Grace of God and they will assuredly experience the overwhelming goodness and love of the Father!

The Bible points us to 2 methods for obtaining righteousness. The Old Method (Law) was measured entirely on your ability to keep the Law. Fail in one point and you’re still stuck in unrighteousness. The New Method (Grace) calls you completely right with God based solely on the work of Jesus. I choose Grace!

In the same way that you don’t keep paying your mortgage once it’s paid off, there is no more offering for sin once the debt has been settled. That is precisely what Jesus accomplished on the Cross, and it’s entirely what the Church should be declaring to the world!

The Resurrection is your proof of purchase, reminding you that your salvation is complete! It’s God’s exclamation point on the New Covenant, bringing humanity from a place of being spiritually poor to a position of being spiritually rich.

The great truth of the New Covenant is that you are God are counted as One being, because of what Jesus did. Jesus emphasizes the importance of this when He prayed for you. Life has plenty of ups and downs, and none of them prove whether God is good. What is proof, however, is knowing that your spirit has been perfected forever!

In 1st Century Ephesus, there seem to have been several women seizing authority to teach in the Church, without first qualifying. Paul’s instruction to the young Pastor, Timothy, is not a permanent restriction on women teaching men in the Church, but a temporary silence of some until they learn how to better teach the faith

The role of women in the church has been argued for two thousand years, and it doesn’t appear to be letting up. Missing the mark on this conversation could potential silence ½ of the world’s spiritual communicators. The conclusion I have thoughtfully come to from my study is that women have been given the same ministry opportunities as a man.