True teachings always aim to bring people to Christ. Someone can love Jesus and not have all the doctrines straight in their mind. In other words, let’s not be too quick to judge another person’s experience because they may have different nuances in their Christian beliefs. Thespiritof de...
Ask the Chatbot a Question While Jesus had many followers, the Twelve Apostles were his closest disciples, and they left an indelible mark on the early Christian church. Personally chosen by Christ himself, nearly all of the Twelve were Jewish (St. Luke may have been a Gentile) and had ...
You probably remember the “What Would Jesus Do?” trend from the late ’90s. It seemed everywhere you looked, plastered across T-shirts, hats, jewelry, and all kinds of other merchandise, the WWJD slogan was a blithe, shallow reminder to live up to Christ’s moral code.. Click on the...
Easter is the only time to talk about the power of resurrection, and the emphasis is only on Christ’s resurrection. Our own resurrection through the power of Christ at the end of time is minimized, at the least, or ignored at the most. ...
For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage” (Matthew 2:2). Having already learned the place of Jesus’ birth from the priests and scribes, Herod extracted from the Magi the exact date on which the star heralding the birth appeared as confirmation of the ...
Which According To The Abundant Mercy Hath Begotten Us Again Unto A Lively Hope By The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ From The Dead November 171 Peter 1:13-25 …As He Which Hath Called You Is Holy, So Be Ye Holy In All Manner Of Conversation; Because It Is Written, ...
Of course Scripture must be clear, at least on salvation, otherwise how could we have any confidence we were saved? And since our knowledge of Christ and salvation is derived only from Scripture, I thought, then Scripture’s clarity is de facto presumed. Though I wouldn’t have been able ...
That means, without any ambiguity, that “perfect,” in this context, cannot mean Jesus Christ. It must mean something else…something else that, like Jesus, is perfect. I could (and have before, on this blog) lay out the manifold scriptures which state that the written word of God is ...
Just as Christ died so all may be forgiven, so all of us…and each of us…is culpable in His crucifixion. Why would anyone and everyone need to be “forgiven” if, in fact, they’d committed no offenses? The truth is it was the sinful human nature (Jew, Greek, Presbyterian, Baptist...
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, know...