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It has been said that your reactions are a better indicator of what you really believe than your actions. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren recently found out how true that statement really is. Graham, Van Susteren, and a group of people…

One of the chief apologetic arguments that atheism has against God involves suffering. How can an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, beneficent God allow innocent people to experience suffering. This is especially true for children. The following text is from the internet. It is the transcription of…

“Do the crime and pay someone else do the time” was the Headline in Sydney’s newspapers. In May 2009, a wealthy 20-year-old was drag-racing through the city streets of Hangzhou, China, when his Mitsubishi struck and killed a pedestrian at a crossing. This crime can be the death penalty for some. When…

How are we going to get the life that has no lust, no self-interest, no sensitiveness to pokes, the love that is not provoked, that thinketh no evil, that is always kind? The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left, but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer…

Sin is a fundamental relationship; it is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. Chambers, O. (1993, c1935). My utmost for his highest : Selections for the year (October 7). Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House Publishers.

The Cross by Max Lucado The cross. Can you turn any direction without seeing one? Perched atop a chapel. Carved into a graveyard headstone. Engraved in a ring or suspended on a chain. The cross is the universal symbol of Christianity. An odd choice, don’t you think? Strange that a tool of torture would…

RECONCILIATION As we sat waiting for the traffic light's permission to proceed, my son once again asked when I would fix the training wheels on his bicycle. I turned to look at him, saying I would fix them when we got home. Then I added, "But they will be different than what you are used to." With that…

JUSTIFICATION The Canadian Ironman competition involves a 3.8 km swim, followed by an 180 km cycle, and ending with the traditional 42 km marathon run. The Ironman competition however, is not just a physical fitness competition, but a battle of the mind. In the race, all of a racer's self-doubts and…

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS As I'm getting older, I find that I like some of the icons of the Christmas season that I once rejected. In the past, decorations and traditions seemed a bit sacrilegious to me. I thought that if I had a picture of Santa Claus in my home or if we went overboard decorating, we'd…

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS by Dr. Erwin Lutzer Intro Thunder From Sinai Today many concepts about God abound, most of them individually conceived in our own minds according to our own liking. When people stop worshipping the true God, they do not stop worshipping; it is just that they change the object of…

#1 — The Conflict In God’s FamilyPlease press the microphone to listen to the talk. Requires the free RealPlayer®. Installation instructions available. “The Conflict In God’s Family” — another look at the Biblical basis for understanding the plan of salvation as God’s provision for restoring peace in…

THE WORD OF GOD SAYS I AM: GODS CHILD, BORN AGAIN OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF THE WORD OF GOD. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. (1 PETER 1 :23) THE WORD OF GOD SAYS I AM: FORGIVEN OF ALL MY SINS AND WASHED IN THE…

Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…

Union with Christ What does it mean to be “in Christ” or “united with Christ”? EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS1 The subject is so frequently mentioned in Scripture and so wide-ranging in its application to our lives that it deserves treatment here. That is the concept of union with Christ. As we shall…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

the feasts of Many Christians do not realize that the seven feasts which God commanded in Leviticus 23 are still observed by their Jewish neighbors. The feasts, as given to Israel, bore a three-fold significance. First there was the seasonal aspect of each holiday; then the feasts were to be a memorial…

the feasts of Many Christians do not realize that the seven feasts which God commanded in Leviticus 23 are still observed by their Jewish neighbors. The feasts, as given to Israel, bore a three-fold significance. First there was the seasonal aspect of each holiday; then the feasts were to be a memorial…

I. Definition Atonement – reconciliation by removing the barrier that sin creates Christ suffered in our place II. Traditional Understandings It was necessary to meet the requirement of divine righteousness (Anselm, 1100) Expression of divine love, moral example (Abelard, 1141) Satisfaction of the law/divine…