by Matthew Borgstrom | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
God’s actions in Acts 12 in the delivering of Peter from prison and the killing of King Herod, illustrate that God is completely sovereign over rulers, just as Paul teaches in Rom. 13, and as is found in Daniel’s blessing to God in Dan. 2, where Daniel declares...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Acts 11:19-26 display core traits of faithful gospel ministry, which brings forth tremendous evidence of a very strong church in Antioch. Nevertheless, here’s what we need to understand: There could be indiscriminate evangelism and encouragement towards perseverance,...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Jan 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
According to vv.11-12 of Eph. 4, gifted leaders were given by Christ to the church to equip the saints for their specific ministry, which builds up the body of Christ. This implies that all Christians have a ministry, which does not mean that all need to be on staff...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
We know that the Bible teaches that all are unclean in God’s eyes due to possessing a wicked heart and therefore all are completely dependent on the cleansing power of Christ’s blood that is effectual to a sinner only through faith in Christ’s finished work. Despite...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Dec 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
We need to be careful that we maintain a proper understanding of the significance of these matters, because some people talk as if OT Jews should have disregarded the Mosaic law completely and just waited for the Messiah to come. That represents utter biblical...