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Jan 4, 2022 · A testimony must be public because its purpose is to tell others what has taken place. In the Christian experience, our regeneration should be a testament (evidence) to other people that Jesus is alive and is changing lives. We testify by our words and actions.
Jan 1, 2008 · Abraham was a man of faith who believed he could live in God's place, who believed in God's provision for him in time and eternity, who believed the promise of the son whom God would give him miraculously, and who believed in God's divine power of resurrection.
- True Saving Faith Includes More Than Simply Professing The Right Words
- True Saving Faith Includes More Than Having Right Theology
- True Saving Faith Includes More Than Having Emotional/Charismatic Experiences
- Conclusion
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What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? So also faith, if it doe...
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works. You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that—and tremble with fear. James 2:18-19 After using the illustration of a professing believer simply mouthing religious words to another believer in ne...
You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that—and tremble with fear. James 2:19 Not only does James declare that having right theology is not proof of true salvation but also emotional or spiritual experiences. When describing the demons, he declared that they not only have right theology—believing that there is only one ...
James challenges Jewish Christians who had turned away from legalistic law-keeping in Judaism to an antinomian form of Christianity. They thought salvation by faith meant that they didn’t have to obey God’s Word at all. But James teaches that true faith changes believers in such a way that repenting of sin and doing good works will always be progre...
Pray that our faith and that of our brothers and sisters would be more than words, theology, and emotions—that it would be a faith that works by actively loving God and others. Pray that we would e...Pray that if there are any among us with a dead faith or no faith at all, that God could convict them of sin and Christ’s righteousness and convert them, so that they follow Christ wholeheartedly....Thank the Lord for his salvation and that he continually changes us by his Spirit into his image.Apr 3, 2020 · While the whole Bible resonates with faith, sometimes Hebrews 11 is referred to as the “faith hall of fame.” According to Hebrews 11, faith is believing that God exists, that he rewards those who seek him and that we can hope in him because his promises will always be true.
- Shelby Turner
With the title "Religion and Science," Einstein distinguished three human impulses which develop religious belief: fear, social or moral concerns, and a cosmic religious feeling. A primitive understanding of causality causes fear, and the fearful invent supernatural beings analogous to themselves.
In his latter life as Bishop, theologian and defender of the authentic Faith, Augustine was able to extol his and our summertime enemy, the mosquito, as revelatory of something of God’s excellence: “Who planted that dart, that weapon whereby it sucks up blood?
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While Paul’s teachings about faith and works of the law in Galatians and Romans3 dealt with the gospel of Christ (the new covenant) and the law of Moses (the old covenant), Paul’s teachings about grace and works change the subject to that of God’s role compared with ours in the salvation process.