Biblically, however, the object of faith is not the divine offer but the Person of Jesus Christ. Faith in Him is what saves, not just believing His promises or accepting facts about Him. Saving faith has to be more than accepting facts. Even demons have that kind of faith (James 2...
Hell is morally and biblically impossible! Many who believe God exist suggest God has given us moral intuitions to discern evil from good. We don’t need a Book to know sexual abuse or murder is wrong. God creating a literal Hell where people are tortured for billions of years for beliefs...
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time. — J. I. Packer 18 If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel. — K.P. Yohannan 18 I want to preach the gos...
obscure, dark, vague, enigmatic, cryptic, ambiguous, equivocal meannot clearly understandable. obscure implies a hiding or veiling of meaning through some inadequacy of expression or withholding of full knowledge. What does riches mean in the Bible? will be defined as 'a suitable accumulation of r...
Does she realize how important this decision is? I don't understand the idea Know (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed. It is vital that he not know. She knew of our plan. He knows about 19th century politics. 1 Know (intransitive) To be or become aware ...
It is that very thing that led our church into a more biblically based denomination. My thoughts this morning are disturbed by what I see going on in the world and in the churches and denominations that have been seduced by the world. My other thought this morning is to pray what Jesus ...
The general principle of this truth, “love your neighbor as yourself,” is always true, but how that truth is applied to someone’s life or situation is not the same for everyone. And the knowledge of that kind of truth does not come from words written in a book, even if those words...
f. We believe that this view is the one that is most biblically based of all. InRomans 11:17-27, the apostle Paul used the analogy of an olive tree to illustrate this. Let me summarise what he wrote: The Covenant is represented by an olive tree. The Israelites are the natural branche...
Ecclesiastes is an admirable early attempt to face this world with open eyes. Perhaps more importantly, I also had my students read A.J. Jacobs’s highly enjoyable The Year of Living Biblically, which is exactly what it sounds like. Jacobs, a secular New York Jew, decided he’d one-up ...
Paul David Tripp suggests that if isolation from the culture (rejection) is on one end of the spectrum, and immersion in the culture (assimilation) is on the other end, then Christians can find a biblically-appropriate place between the two. He calls this place, “redemption interaction.” ...