A Missouri teenager, Alyssa Bustamante, attended church and got good grades in school. But a troubled childhood and untreated mental health issues opened the door for her unprovoked, inexplicable killing of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
Responding to the too-optimistic theology of fellow Arminian, John Taylor, John Wesley wrote his lengthy treatise on the doctrine of original sin. In an optimistic effort to make fellow personalist theologians’ works accessible, Methodist theologian Geo
Remember that whatever you did is not a reflection of your True Nature– it is a result of your unexamined Shadow erupting to the surface of your life and wreaking havoc. If anything, whatever you’ve done has gifted you with the blessing of knowing first-hand the importance ofShadow Work(...
And although some Puritans did not believe in religious freedom, they still managed to create safe havens for religiously persecuted peoples. Roger Williams cautioned that a lack of religious liberty could result in the “ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of...
Closely related to the quote by Apostle Paul is when Jesus stated, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29). Faith, according to the Bible, is so much more than just belief. It’s that deep, unshakable trust in God’s promises—a confidence th...
you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials / so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus ...
Accepting Jesus into my life changed everything. He lovingly scooped up the pieces of my spirit and painstakingly put me back together, piece by broken piece. Where my heart had been ground to dust, He created a new one. Every time I suffer another break, He fills in the cracks with ...
Of course Jesus did what God had commanded His namesake to do (Jesus is the Greek form of Joshua or Yeshua) Josh 1:5“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsa...
What usability testing did you do for this? Given the ubiquity of opinions here I find it hard to believe this couldn’t have been caught earlier. Looking back through the feedback, we really feel that this design addresses the bulk of the feedback while still aligning wi...
This is why I see so many preaching effort and self will. They call it HS power, but the truth is that while Jesus did all that needed to be done to rescue me from my sinfulness, my Christian life still needed ME to bring the team over the finish line. The Holy Spirit wasn’t ...