Sharing your Christian faith involves risk and potential failure. Sometimes it could even be embarrassing. Yet there is an urgency about sharing your faith in Christ with those you care about because we don’t know who else might tell them. Without faith in Christ, if they die, they are condemned to eternal separation from God […]
When we are confronted with the terror of war either personally or vicariously through the media and stories told by others, we begin to wonder if these are the last days described in the Bible. They could be. Certainly, for those killed in the conflict, they have experienced their end time on earth. But as […]
The object of your faith reveals your heart, your earnest desire. Faith alone is just a statement without substance. You should want to trust in something or someone that is true and checks out with reality. In the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the object of a person’s faith. Jesus’ life teachings, miracles, death on […]
The popular Christmas carol, “We Three Kings of Orient Are” is most likely inaccurate for two reasons: the visitors probably weren’t rulers of nations, nor are they likely to have come from what we think of as the Orient, eastern Asia. The Kings or “Magi” were most probably Zoroastrian astrologers who were advisers to the […]
The winter celebration of the birth of Christ dates first appears on a Roman calendar in 336 AD, centuries after the event took place. Scholars believe that there may have been an attempt to co-opt an existing pagan festival that marked the coming of the light after the shortest day of the year. Clues in […]
The Bible explains what is known as the virgin birth. She became pregnant not through a man, but through a supernatural act of God. “This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be […]
God has always existed. He is omnipresent, meaning he has no beginning or end. God is known as the Great I Am! That means always was, is now and always will be. Eternal. It is very difficult for us to comprehend, because we live within “time” and are constrained by it limits. God existed before […]
God is Holy and will not have sin in His presence. Without a sacrifice, the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. (Hebrews 9:22) In the Old Testament we read that God called for the offering of an unblemished lamb as an atoning sacrifice for the forgiveness of the sins of the […]
One legacy of the modern world is the feeling that to believe something, there must be conclusive evidence, so conclusive that no one can possibly doubt. This is not realistic. Every day we make decisions based upon deep, unconscious and sometimes incomplete understanding. It is called faith. So it is with God. The existence of […]
The Apostle Paul, wrote to Timothy, a missionary partner who, at the time, was the leading pastor in the Asia Minor city of Ephesus. In his letter, Paul was providing guidance for leadership and reminded Timothy of the importance of The Bible as God’s inspired Word. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting […]
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