In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light …
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Advent Day One: Prepare Him Room
Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room. –Joy to the World, Isaac Watts, 1719 Happy first day of Advent (days leading up to Christ’s first coming)! We will be releasing an Advent study every day leading up to December 25th. So let’s jump in. We tend to make excuses about how …
Read More »Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan
Getting Job-ed Part 3: God and Satan. In this part, we will explore the two sets of dialogs seen in Job 2-3 between God and Satan. These dialogs should make us question our longstanding views and begin to reshape our concepts of: 1. God and His Sovereignty 2. Satan …
Read More »Christians, it’s Time to Mature
But I, brothers and sisters, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. …
Read More »Falling Forward: Reflections on a Culture of Deconstructing Christianity
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! 2 Corinthians 13:5 English Standard Bible There’s a big movement within our culture of deconstructing institutions and …
Read More »Your Past Does Not Define You
For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of …
Read More »How is God Justified in Sending People to Hell?
What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not! Romans 9:14 CSB In the last article, we established that Hell is a place where the wrath of God is poured out on people that deserve it. I was recently listening to a Podcast on whether Hell was …
Read More »An Honest Question: Is Hell Real?
“Then he will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels!… And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25:41, 46 CSB I want us to …
Read More »Who Wants to be Joyful Forever?
You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures. Psalm 16:11 CSB Goodness, how easy it could be to just blow over this verse in the Bible just because it sounds so churchy it could be white noise! …
Read More »God Can Keep You From Falling
Now to him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of his glory, without blemish and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. …
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