The Scriptures on the Cross, The cross in the Scriptures. Biblical answers to the Cross of Christ...Why the Cross, Why the Crucifix
The Evangelical impulse is birthed in the Scriptures, empowered by the Holy Spirit, centered in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and compelled by the story of Christ’s saving acts throughout the world. Church historian, Stephen Nichols elaborates: Luther spawned more than a s...
1.Often,Scriptures.Also calledHoly Scripture(orScriptures).the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together. 2.(often l.c.) any writing or book, esp. when of a sacred or religious nature. 3.(sometimes l.c.) a particular passage from the Bible. ...
Augustine’s answer (which, as refined by later thinkers, remained the standard Christian answer until modern times) includes both theological aspects (the ideas of the fall of angels and then of humans, of the redemption of some by the cross of Christ, and of the ultimate disposal of souls...
revolution rather than the way of the cross; they preach a secular instead of the Sacred church founded by Christ; the essence of their morality is self-assertion rather than self-denial; the Christ these antichrist priests present to the congregation is the Humanist Christ rather than the God...
Apply:What does the Cross teach us about the certainty of Christ’s second coming? Without the Second Coming, what good did Jesus’ death do us at the first coming? Share:Your friend says he is not sure he will make it to heaven. What do you tell your friend, and how might you use...
While many who profess Christ carry and/or venerate crosses, did early Christians use crosses? If not, where did the cross originate? Does the Bible tell Christians to wear or venerate crosses? Is the cross the mark of the beast as some have claimed?
Acts of the Apostles, fifth book of the New Testament, a valuable history of the early Christian church. Acts was written in Greek, presumably by the Evangelist Luke, whose gospel concludes where Acts begins, namely, with Christ’s Ascension into heaven.
Back in 2003, I was not ready for The Passion of the Christ as a work of sacred cinema. It was worlds away from any biblical movie that we had ever seen. Unlike most prior biblical films, it wasn’t hokey, affected or surreal. But I was also not ready fo
Unless and until you are willing to surrender at the cross of Christ your idea of God and of what He demands of you, where all human effort has ceased in death, you will not be able to walk with the actual true God. Christ is the life of God, planted in our hearts by the faith...