Author: Vince
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The Oldest Hatred and Its Deepest Explanation
There is a question that secular historiography has never fully resolved: why, of all the peoples who have experienced persecution, displacement, and dispossession, is it the Jews who have been subjected to it by practically every civilisation in every era, under radically different pretexts, with a uniquely exterminationist intensity? This is not a rhetorical question.…
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Ezekiel’s Temple Sacrifices Are Not a Problem
It is completely understandable to feel unsettled when you first encounter what Ezekiel describes in chapters 40–48. After spending time in the letter to the Hebrews — with its thunderous declaration that Christ offered himself “once for all” and that the veil is torn, the priesthood fulfilled, the sacrificial system completed — you turn to…
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Healthy Work Culture and Biblical Principles
Every few months, LinkedIn fills up with a new wave of thought leaders discovering that workplaces should be built on trust, mutual accountability, honest communication, and the dignity of the individual. Frameworks get named. Books get published. TED talks accumulate views. What rarely gets mentioned is that these ideas have a source, and it’s roughly…
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Loving One Another Across a Cultural Fault Line
Reflections on Italian Evangelical Life for Missionaries, Returning Italians, and the Italian Church Itself This piece is written from inside affection, not from outside criticism. It is intended for three groups of readers who often find themselves in the same room without quite seeing one another: missionaries serving in Italy, Italians who have returned home…
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Not Hot, Not Cold — What Jesus Really Meant at Laodicea
When Jesus dictated seven letters to seven churches in the Book of Revelation, he was not writing in the abstract. Each letter was addressed to a real community, in a real city, facing real pressures — and each letter drew on imagery the original readers would have immediately recognised. The letter to Laodicea is no…
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Beautiful Rotten Fruits
There is a profound freedom that accompanies spiritual maturity: the ability to look across the aisle, past secondary theological differences and stylistic preferences, and recognise a brother or sister in Christ. For the mature believer, the Kingdom of God is vastly larger than any single denomination. The goal is never to find a flawless congregation—because…
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A letter to the exhausted believer
Dear friend, Read this slowly, if you will. Not because what follows is complicated, but because the thing I want to say is the kind of truth that slips past a hurried mind. You are tired. Not because you are failing, but because you are working. You are straining to complete something that was completed…
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If the Quran Is True, Then the Quran Is False
The Quran claims to be the final and definitive revelation of Allah. Yet this claim carries an internal contradiction that is worth examining carefully. The Quran and the Bible The Quran explicitly acknowledges the Jewish and Christian Scriptures as authentic divine revelation. A selection of relevant passages: The Quran further asserts that the words of…
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More Than a Morning
There is a version of Easter that costs nothing. Chocolate, flowers, the vague warmth of spring — a cultural ritual that asks no questions and makes no demands. Christianity, however, is not in that business. The apostle Paul, writing to a church in Corinth roughly twenty years after the crucifixion, stated the stakes with uncomfortable…
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One Baptism, Many Claims: Rethinking Spirit Baptism from Scripture
If you spend any time in overlapping Pentecostal, Reformed, and broader evangelical circles, you quickly discover that “baptism in the Holy Spirit” functions as a kind of theological Rorschach test. For some, it is a dramatic post‑conversion crisis marked by tongues; for others, it is simply Paul’s shorthand for conversion itself; for yet others, it…