"The five means of grace are prayer, searching the Scriptures, the Lord's Supper, fasting, and Christian [fellowship]." (Elaine A. Heath) The Importance of Grace Grace is most needed and best understood in the midst of sin, suffering, and brokenness. We live in a world of earning, de...
The first verse is telling us that our speech to others has to be“with grace.”If you look at the basic definitions of grace at the top of this article again, one of the definitions that it is referring to is“favor, graciousness, kindness, beauty, and pleasantness.” In the Sanctific...
Within our faith we have learned how the only Son of the living God encountered real temptations. We know that Jesus overcame those temptations by using His Father’s words…scriptures. We have read where Jesus suffered at the hands of family and friends. We know that His suffering became wo...
It has also challenged me to seek out for myself what the scriptures really say about grace and the law. I began to question things that I had learned in churches my whole life. And I have come away with a greater understanding that my salvation is in no way purchased or maintained by...
“I am fairly at a loss to comprehend how anyone, for a moment, can doubt that Christian theology must stand or fall with the historical trustworthiness of the Jewish Scriptures. The very conception of the Messiah, or Christ, is inextricably interwoven with Jewish history…what about the author...
rabbis later said, “The Scriptures are water; the Mishnah, wine; but the Gemara, spiced wine.”[20]Jesus encountered this attitude among the Pharisees even before the existence of the Talmud (Matthew 15:3).Christians must be careful not to make the same mistake with their own traditions....
When I first went into ministry, I wanted to help people understand what the Lord expected of them. I studied and preached and taught. But the more I focused on what God wanted from us, the less I understood the real message of the Scriptures. I found that people became depressed and ...
The Lord Jesus said we must “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to life, and those that find it are few” (Matthew 7:13-14). The narrow way is hard, and only a few find it, because you must diligently search the Scriptures to find...
“theDidacheassumes a rather large body of prophets, teachers, bishops, and deacons who devote full time to their preaching and teaching” (The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, 1:256). With full time teachers and “a daily assembly of the saints, at which the Word was preached” ...
1 Corinthians 15:3-4: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: The gospel means good news. There are many...