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What did you believe when you believed in Jesus? Make sure it's what Jesus commands.
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What did you believe when you believed in Jesus? Make sure it's what Jesus commands.
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Why must Christians pay more attention to history? How can understanding history enhance our faith and enlarge our vision of God? Vern Poythress answers these and many other questions about how to redeem history for the glory of God.
The Weight of Glory contains some of C. S. Lewis' most important and most enduring essays. It will challenge and enlarge your understanding of the faith and give you new insights into how to avoid the traps and snares of the world.
C. S. Lewis has a dream. A scary, wonderful dream. An amazingly beautiful and mysterious dream. Look closely enough and you'll see that we're all in it, too.
Paul spent a little more than 18 months in Corinth, doing the work which resulted in “many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized” (v. 8). A church took root; rather (as we shall see), a series of house churches, probably spread around the city, began to meet, worship, and learn what it means to be the Body of Christ. The several house churches were one church in Corinth, and for the time Paul was with them, everything seemed to go well.
But when Paul went to Ephesus, troubles began. He wrote 1 Corinthians to address certain issues, difficulties, and questions that were brought to him by visitors from Corinth. The tone of 1 Corinthians, with its focus on division, immaturity, immorality, neglect, and other matters, is stern and demanding. Paul expected better from these people he had served for a year and a half, and he let them know he was disappointed. But like a loving shepherd, he also walked them through their difficulties, reminded them of the grace of God, pointed them toward the Lord’s return, and urged them to stand firm in the faith.
What does the Bible teach about our role in helping government be a servant of God for good? This series explores that question from the perspective of God's Law.
Genesis is the foundation of the Bible. Understand what God is trying to teach us in this opening work and the rest of scripture becomes clear. Misunderstand it, and you’ll misunderstand everything else.
- Genesis Week 1: In the Beginning
- Genesis Week 2: In His Image
- Genesis Week 3: God Commands Adam
- Genesis Week 4: The Fall
- Genesis Week 5: God Judges
- Genesis Week 6: Sin Spreads
- Genesis Week 7: God Says, "Enough!"
- Genesis Week 8: The Flood
- Genesis Week 9: Starting Over
- Genesis Week 10: The Path
- Genesis Week 11: Abram Acts and Grows
- Genesis Week 13: Wakeup Calls
- Genesis Week 14: The Encounters
- Genesis Week 15: God Rescues
- Genesis Week 16: Abraham Goes to School
- Genesis Week 17: Abraham Finally Gets It
- Genesis Week 18: Abraham Passes the Torch
- Genesis Week 19: Isaac Gets the Girl
- Genesis Week 20: The Family Splits
- Genesis Week 21: Isaac Learns Diplomacy
- Genesis Week 22: Deception, And for What?
- Genesis Week 23: Jacob's Journey of Faith
- Genesis Week 24: Jacob Grows Up
- Genesis Week 25: Competition
- Genesis Week 26: On the Run
- Genesis Week 27: Jacob's Transformation
- Genesis Week 28: Jacob Arrives
- Genesis Week 29: Welcome to the School of Hard Knocks, Israel
- Genesis Week 30: Deception
- Genesis Week 31: Joseph Hits Bottom
- Genesis Week 32: Joseph Gets a Green Light
- Genesis Week 33: The Stage Is Set
James begins with a blunt description of life in Christ and the challenges Christians face. Our trials are actually opportunities to do great things for the Lord, but are also opportunities for failure.
No excuses.
When the captivity of God’s people is truly restored, when God “brings back the captivity of His people” (Ps. 53.6), then joy and rejoicing will characterize His people, and the salvation of God will come roaring out from their midst to turn the world right-side up for Jesus.
Neither of these outcomes was much in evidence during the period following the return from Babylon—at least, not consistently or for very long. It would not be until the book of Acts that we see the outcomes David envisioned in Psalm 53. Neither of these outcomes is particularly evident in our day, either. Like the people returning from Babylon, we deceive ourselves if we think our true captivity is at an end. That will only be so when we are wholly, entirely, jubilantly, and obediently captive to Jesus in all our ways. How we can get from where we are to being restored from our present captivity is the theme of this series, “Return from Exile.”