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2 days ago · This week we are studying Colossians 1:24-2:3. It’s fitting that we’re beginning a series of lessons on “hope in the Lord” with this text that talks about “the hope of glory” – in a dense context of suffering and mystery and gospel teaching. Some questions on the text are here. Here are a few notes on this text:
3 days ago · Numerous books of Christian apologists contain these reasons. But we do not believe they are proofs such that anyone who does not agree with them are stupid. Point six: We believe that believing ...
2 days ago · And, Hebrews goes on, we must believe God’s promises. Specific promises, as noted in Romans 4. We must believe this God rewards those who seek Him, the one true God. We must believe in Him, and we must believe Him, believe what He says. That is the faith that pleases, that is the faith of Abraham. This may all seem needlessly basic.
4 days ago · Stephen Hawking was one of the world’s greatest minds, and his thoughts on whether or not there is a God have recently resurfaced. In his 2002 book The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe, Hawking wrote: “For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God ...
5 days ago · Like Jesus, the Spirit comes from above, the realm of God, and it blows where it will (3:8); in other words, it belongs to God. Like Jesus, the Spirit is truth (14:17; see also 4:23–24; 16:13). The Spirit is an Advocate, whom Jesus asks God to give to the community of faith (14:16), to teach, testify to, and remind them of what Jesus has said ...
5 days ago · Faith Forged By the Word of God. Jamie Helmick. 05/26/24 - Sunday AM. Series: Shield of Faith Training. Source Text: Ephesians 6:10-18. This training series in critical for anyone hoping to battle well in the face of the enemy. We need to see the strength that comes from the tools that God offers so that we might fight the fight of faith with ...
5 days ago · God had called Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, spoken to them, and given them the Covenant promises, but Moses was privileged to find out much more about what God is really like. God spoke to him on a regular basis in an intimate way ‘face to face, as a man speaks to his friend’ (Exodus 33:11). Moses asked to be shown God’s ways so he could ...
