February 26, 2025
God gifted Paul with the ministry to proclaim the good news of the mystery of Christ to the gentiles, and Paul is a prisoner for their sake. Paul is a servant of the gospel to declare the multi-faceted wisdom of God in the Messiah to the powers, and this mission is carried out through the […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Church, Ecclesiology, Ephesians 3:1-13, Ephesians 3:2-13, Gentiles, Ministry, Missional, Mystery, Mystery of Christ, Paul, Revelation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
January 15, 2025
Ephesians is Paul’s most comprehensive letter. It was intended for circulation among various congregations for public reading in their assemblies. The first three chapters unfold the mystery of God in Christ by the power of the Spirit as the plan of salvation, and the final three chapters invite believers to participate in that mystery by […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Church, Ecclesiology, Ephesians, Ephesians 1:1-2, Imperative, Indicative, Mystery of Christ, Theology, Unity |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
September 24, 2024
In the Fall of 1978, I was attending Westminster Theological Seminary (seeking a sixty-six hour degree in theology) and preaching for the Northeast Philadelphia Church of Christ. I was twenty-one years old. The church asked me to give a series of radio lessons on a station that covered the Philadelphia market. They hoped it would […]
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Personal, Theology | Tagged: Baptism, Church, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, New Testament Church, Pattern, Patternism, Salvation, Soteriology, Theology |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 19, 2024
Hebrews 12:18-29 You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. (For they could not endure the order that was given, […]
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Biblical Texts | Tagged: Angels, Assembly, Church, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Going to Church, Heavenly Jerusalem, Intermediate State, Liturgy, Mount Zion, Where are the Dead?, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 5, 2024
This book, accessible here, was published in September, 2023. In May, 2024, I was asked to summarize it for a combined adult Bible class at the Homewood Church of Christ. That lesson is available below.
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Theology | Tagged: Assembly, Baptism, Church, Ecclesiology, Lord's Supper, Sacrament, Sacramental, Salvation |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
May 1, 2024
The following videos are five lecture/sermon presentations and one Q&A from the Ray Evans Seminar held at the Alameda Church of Christ in Norman, Oklahoma, on April 12-14, 2024. The presentations are based on the book Searching for the Pattern, published in 2019.
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Hermeneutics | Tagged: Churches of Christ, Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, Patternism, Searching for the Pattern, Stone-Campbell |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
April 17, 2024
Hebrews 9:1-10 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a tent called the Holy of Holies. In […]
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Biblical Texts, Uncategorized | Tagged: Altar of Incense, Assembly, Church, Ecclesiology, Heaven, Manna, Priesthood, Sanctuary, Tabernacle, Wilderness, Worship |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
February 23, 2024
Therefore, make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown, and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those […]
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Church History | Tagged: Assembly, Christology, Church, Cosmic Warfare, Ecclesiology, Eucharist, Ignatius of Antioch, Powers |
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Posted by John Mark Hicks