Your peace isn’t dependent on you knowing everything; rather, it depends on you trusting in God to provide everything you need to know. Do you believe that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ for salvation can be saved? I do. Is this open to interpretation? Nope. It’s clearly stated holy doctrine in the Word of […]
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The apostle Paul wrote the greatest number of books in the Bible. He was, indeed, a child of God (unbelievers are “by nature children of wrath” – Ephesians 2:3). He wrote about many things that were sacred to him, holy doctrines that have stood the test of time, as well as the assaults of Satan and the kingdom
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Is it possible to have a zeal for God that God rejects? According to Holy Scripture, the answer is “yes”. Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of
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The title of this blog may have you intrigued. How could someone Jesus called “a devil” be comforting to us? Isn’t Judas Iscariot the man whose guts were spilled out on the ground after he hung himself (Acts 1:18-19)? I mean, how can one whose death was so gruesome inspire us to comfort in any
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“I can’t wait to retire!” How many times have you heard someone utter those words? They often come at the end of a hard day’s work, right? What does the Bible have to say about retirement from work? The answer is: nothing. In fact, it appears the Bible never suggests anyone ought to stop working.
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I have a lot of faults. Ask my family or my closest friends and they’ll certainly agree. I’m flawed, but one thing is true: I’m me. I’m not trying to justify said flaws; rather, I’m writing this to you, personally, as a form of encouragement. Do you know what else is true? The Lord knows
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The greatest expression of love is to guide someone to truth. No matter the hills or valleys a person must climb, it is the truth a righteous person seeks and desires to impart to others. Seeking the truth may require a bit of courage (courage being applied faith). We may need to pray for more
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If the end goal is salvation, what then is the means by which it occurs? For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” -Romans 10:13 OK, then, all an unbeliever has to do is simply call on the Lord, right? This is true, however, there’s a caveat. For the mind
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Why do we regard the opinions of others so deeply? Is it a blessing or a curse? Is that even the right question? Might we fare better by challenging the basic presupposition that it’s good to regard the opinions of others as valuable? I favor the latter strategy. I believe God does, too. God has
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I think one of the greatest lies ever told is that work is supposed to be something other than what it fundamentally is – work. As Christians, we sometimes forget what God promised after the Fall in the Garden of Eden. To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in