Biblical Interpretation

Adopted Into Sonship

By The North Salem United Methodist Church / November 16, 2022 /

Pentecost Sunday is the day nearly two thousand years ago that many believe the Church was born. It was the day the Church received the promised Holy Spirit that Jesus said he would send as our Comforter and Advocate. But the Holy Spirit is even a bit more than that. He is something that many just…

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Five Smooth Stones

By The North Salem United Methodist Church / September 10, 2022 /

There is an interesting tidbit in the Scripture passage of 1 Samuel 17:40. It states: “Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi (a brook or stream), and put them in his shepherd’s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the…

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Revelation! But to Whom?!

By The North Salem United Methodist Church / August 10, 2022 /

In Chapter 3 of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, Paul explains to his readers how there was a “spiritual mystery” that was kept from men until Paul’s time and his call to reveal it. That mystery, of course, was that gentiles were also to be brought into the kingdom of God. And again, it was…

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The Law vs The Ten Commandments

By The North Salem United Methodist Church / May 10, 2022 /

In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Paul says something that is to this day controversial and a matter of contention among a few in the Church Universal. Paul said in Ephesians 2:15-18… “He (Christ) has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus…

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