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Confrontational Preaching Jeremiah Jesus Luther Edwards

Rolf Thielen 2026-09-12 0 Comment

Jeremiah Jeremiah’s call really does not leave room for a “love only, never confront” Christianity. The text is blunt about that. God does not appoint him as a chaplain to soothe a dying religious...

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The Christian Conscience

Rolf Thielen 2026-09-02 0 Comment

A Clean Powerful Intelligent Conscience What is the Conscience The conscience is the inner faculty by which a person recognizes good and evil, judges particular actions, and stands accountable before God. It is not...

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Church Life Exegesis Prophesying Revelation of Jesus Christ The Kingdom of God Uncategorized

Jonathan Edwards – The Revival Theology of a Thinking Man

Rolf Thielen 2025-11-24 0 Comment

by Arv B Jonathan Edwards was a pastor in New England about 300 years ago. He played a pivotal role in the revival that is known as the First Great Awakening. He was recognised...

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Andrew Murray – 1860 Revival in Worcester

Rolf Thielen 2025-11-19 0 Comment

The 1860 revival in Worcester, South Africa, is a well-documented event in Christian history, closely associated with pastor Andrew Murray Jr. It began shortly after Murray’s induction as pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church...

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When Did Praise and Worship Become Man-Centred

Rolf Thielen 2025-10-06 0 Comment

The shift toward man-centered praise and worship and the practice of worship leaders facing the congregation rather than God alongside the congregation are complex developments rooted in historical, cultural, and theological changes within Christian...

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What is a Teacher?

Rolf Thielen 2025-09-17 0 Comment

What is a Teacher? The vital role of teachers in the biblical narrative emphasizes their function as scribes or theological experts who unpack the covenant of God with precision, authority, and clarity. Moses, Ezra,...

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Titus Elder Workbook 1: Producing Lifegiving Elders for the Kingdom of God

Rolf Thielen 2025-09-12 0 Comment

Who is Titus? TITUS [TIGH tuhs] — a “partner and fellow worker” (2 Cor. 8:23) of the apostle Paul. Although Titus is not mentioned in the Book of Acts, Paul’s letters reveal that he...

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St Anthony the Great

Rolf Thielen 2025-09-03 0 Comment

Anthony lived in a time of transition for Christianity: the Diocletianic Persecution in 303 was the last great formal persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. Only ten years later, Christianity was made legal in Egypt by Diocletian‘s successor, Constantine the...

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FrankenStein God

Rolf Thielen 2025-08-30 0 Comment

Your reflection cuts deep into the tension between the majestic, terrifying God of the prophets and the sanitized, feel-good deity that modern culture often constructs. It’s a sharp critique of how sentimentality and humanism...

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Israel and their Leaders – Jesus Complex Relationship with Them

Rolf Thielen 2025-08-28 0 Comment

We must in these times and certainly in order to raise up power Christians and Titus Elders understand Jesus’ complex relationship with the Pharisees and the broader Jewish community, we will include other key...

Henk van der Spuy on New Believers Tract2024-04-02
Dit is so duidelik en eenvoudig uiteengesit! Verfrissend om dit so in detail te verstaan. Dankie!
Phillip on Limited Theology and Limited Salvation2024-01-14
For it is a great mystery, how can it be defined?... There is no end to it, why should we…
Phillip de Bruyn on Why no Graven Images?2022-12-22
Again pointing to the mystery of the Cross... What an unlimited, endless God we serve!
Sonja Thielen on Addictions & the Brain – Dr JimWilder2021-09-19
Excellent article. We should teach these skills to the young men and women in our groups so that they are…
Phillip on Moses, Saul, the Pope & the Pastor – Human Buffers against God2021-05-16
A word not taught in many circles these days... Sad, but true. So true...

Church Life

Confrontational Preaching Jeremiah Jesus Luther Edwards

The Christian Conscience

Jonathan Edwards – The Revival Theology of a Thinking Man

Andrew Murray – 1860 Revival in Worcester

When Did Praise and Worship Become Man-Centred

What is a Teacher?

Titus Elder Workbook 1: Producing Lifegiving Elders for the Kingdom of God

St Anthony the Great

FrankenStein God

Israel and their Leaders – Jesus Complex Relationship with Them

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