A successful game plan for living above your circumstances takes a healthy disregard for the past. Paul said in Philippians 3:13: “Forgetting what lies behind . . .”
Read MoreThe wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.–Romans 1:18
Read MoreThere is no contradiction between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Just like the New Testament, the Old Testament teaches there are not many ways to the true God–there is only one way. And we see that truth throughout the Old Testament. What themes of the Old Testament remind us that the old way was one way?
Read MoreWhy should we choose companionship over loneliness? Companionship offers us protection when we are under siege. Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:12, “If one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.”
Read MoreWhen the Israelites came to the Red Sea and had the impossible choice of drowning or dying, they came up with another option: complaining to their leader. Look at their words to Moses, dripping with sarcasm:
Read MoreIn Romans 14, Paul was addressing a problem in the church in Rome regarding the issue of diet: what we eat and drink. In Romans 14:1-2, Paul said,
Read MoreMany of today’s best-selling Christian books are accounts of people who died, visited heaven, and returned to life to recount all they had seen in the next world. Do such experiences provide reliable information about that “place called heaven?” If not, are those who claim such experiences dishonest, demonic, or deluded? Today we are going to look at what the Bible says about those who claim to have already visited ...
Read MoreAn atheist decided to go mountain climbing. As he was ascending the mountain, his foot slipped, and he began to fall. He desperately grabbed hold of a thin branch of a tree on the side of the cliff. Realizing he could not go up any farther and that the branch would not hold him much longer, the atheist did the unthinkable.
Read MoreBehold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus … and they were talking with each other about all these things which had taken place. –Luke 24:13-14
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