Fasting for God’s deliverance. We also find people fasting when God’s deliverance was needed, as when King Jehoshaphat was approached by a large invading army. “And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. So Judah gathered together...
Does this mean that biblically-oriented Christians shouldn’t observe Advent? For some, the answer is “Yes.” If it’s not explicitly taught in Scripture, then Christians shouldn’t do it. You’ll find that kind of argument among non-instrumental Church of Christ believers, for example. Sin...
19. The glorious deliverance the creation longs for,29. was beforehand decreed from God.38. Nothing can sever us from his love.Study Bible Book ◦ Chapter But if we hope for what we do not yet seeThis phrase emphasizes the nature of Christian hope, which is rooted in faith and the ...
I am not saying that we should not address these things biblically, but what is happening, in my estimation, is that those topics are being addressed in the church by worldly thoughts and not in biblical thoughts. It is that very thing that led our church into a more biblically based deno...
1.1. We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the verbally and plenary inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and, therefore, are the final authority for faith and life (2 Tim 3:14-17). By inspiration we mean that all ...
“The outstanding thing about faith is that it delivers us from eternal destruction. For He especially wanted to say that although we seem to have been born for death sure deliverance is offered to us by the faith of Christ so that we must not fear the death which otherwise threatens us....
her people have prospered at the expense of the Galilean Jews, she doesn’t deny that it makes them oppressors and sinners—dogs. But she does more than that—she honors Him by her next statement.“Even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”What exactly does this ...
For He especially wanted to say that although we seem to have been born for death sure deliverance is offered to us by the faith of Christ so that we must not fear the death which otherwise threatens us. And he has used a general term, both to invite indiscriminately all to share in ...