For I passed on to you as most important what I also received:that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,that He was buried,that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time,most of whom remain to the present, […]
I tell you the truth: there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.” About eight days after these words, He took along Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. As He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly, […]
AND, my God will supply all of your needs, in accordance with His great wealth in glory, by Jesus Christ. That writing of Paul’s has been used as a weapon against power bills and mortgage payments pretty often in my hearing. What did Paul intend for it to be used as? What does the rest of the paragraph say? Why […]
Paul was in prison when he wrote letters to the congregations in Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae and to a believer named Philemon. Do not worry about anything but giving up having the power to cut you off from the purpose that Yahweh has commanded over your life. And do not give up.
The only way you could start with the defeat of Jesus on the cross and then come to defeat yourself is if you surrender to someone or something other than Jesus. Jesus, in a position of defeat, defeated death and the grave and sin. The only way forward from the position of having been defeated by sin for us is […]
If we didn’t have the Scriptures, we would still have the Spirit Who inSpired the people who wrote what became the Scriptures. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob each lived their entire life with no Scripture. Joseph had no Scriptures. For several hundred years after the resurrection of Jesus, no one had a “New Testament.” Now, however, we do have the Scriptures. […]
What is the right way to evangelize people? Whom should we be evangelizing? Those are not the same kind of questions as “What is the best way to propagate camelias, or the best way to raise tomatoes, or the best way to farm crawdads?” Questions about the best way to evangelize are as broad and multifaceted as questions about the […]
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith from my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe—and they shudder. Foolish man! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless? Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by […]