What defines you? Is it your personality? The way you see the world? Do your views on current events give others a glimpse of your true self? Is it your vocation? Do you receive your sense of identification from the work you do? The way you spend your time? I’ve heard people say if they …
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" Hebrews 9:27 "...it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" I hear much today about the social gospel. People are concerned with the trouble they see. War, famine, disease, homelessness, hopelessness. They want to help ease …
Seems like I’m always in the middle of some mess. I've heard you’re either going into a storm, going through a storm, or going out of one. And there’s not much room between going out of one and going into the next. It may be normal for life, but it is taxing on the soul. …
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, …
We’ve looked at our need for salvation and God’s plan for our salvation. Finally, we’ll look at God’s fulfillment of our salvation which is through Jesus Christ. We know that Jesus was the perfect sacrifice for us. Because He was fully man, He could die in our place. And because He was also fully God, …
Last month, we looked at our need for salvation. Because of man’s sin in the Garden of Eden, all of his descendents were cursed with a sin nature. Romans 3:23 and 6:23 tell us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” and that the results or “wages of sin is …
The greatest truth of all is our redemption by a loving God; how He made a way for us to return to Him. For my monthly Topic, I will look at that way which we call salvation. Entire books have been published on this truth, so I don't pretend to be able to cover it in one …
Black & White with Shades of Gray 