The prime aim of this study is to assist members of the ICOC1, who believe the Bible is God's word, to a better biblical understanding of the NT phrases "the kingdom of God" and "the kingdom of heaven." The word has been used with a narrow range of meanings within the group for...
Bill Delvaux:I believe the heroic is a glimpse of whatpre-fall manwas like. It’s the shut door back into Eden being cracked open just for a moment so that we can see a glimmer of his glory. That longing for the heroic is planted deep inside the male soul and can act as a compas...
Why hell is destruction, not eternal torment. Absolute Biblical proof of conditional immortality. What was taught in the Old Testament? What did Judaism teach? In-depth discussion on Conditional Immortality, Annihilationism, Traditionalism, and more! He
tender transformation within my soul. It is the work of grace and not the work of works. It is open-handedness, requiring all of me, nothing closed off, everything made plain to see, all surrendered.
You probably didn’t think you’d ever have to ask it. Your gut reaction may be, “Well, cloning seems bad because of the moral implications.” Implications like, would a clone have a soul?” Is a clone an abomination in the eyes of God? What does a Creator think about someone disto...
And how do we use this sermon Style, with its great rhetorical potential, biblically?Steve MathewsonTextual preaching dominated the homiletical landscape in the latter half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s and remains popular in some circles today. The list of preachers w...
God Himself is restoring this lost understanding through what I call the “Torah Awakening.” This awakening is helping Christians around the world learn more about our Messiah’s identity and mission through such biblically-rooted practices as the feasts of Passover, Pentecost (Shavuot), and Taber...
Dream about being shot by a stranger- this is the most common dream, the stranger in dream psychology is often a representation of yourself. It could be that you are literally “shooting yourself in the foot.” It is possible that the dream's source may be in your distant past even if...
share life with the family of God. But the downside of obedience is the inevitability of conflict. Yes, in the body of Christ you’ll find people to rejoice when you rejoice and to weep when you weep, but sometimes your cause for weeping will be the body of Christ. It’s sad, but ...
Blessed be the Lord our God! Today we consider 1 John 3.1-3, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s child...