We begin this Sunday a new series of sermons on the book of Romans, The Power of God Unto Salvation to Everyone Who Believes.
Throughout church history, God has used this…
Those of you following the Bible Unity Reading Plan are nearing the end of the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, sometimes called the books of Moses. God…
Holly Ordway was an English professor, a competitive fencer – and an atheist. She writes:
Life inside the fortress of atheism was good. I thought I could make sense of the…
Consider this Gospel presentation, “Two Kingdoms:”
Here is a truth I have come to know. God created the world as His Kingdom, and all was very good. But Satan rebelled, desiring…
Those of you following the Bible Unity Reading Plan read the Ten Commandments this last week. How is that Law relevant for us today? Why did God give the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel? Did God give these commandments so that the people could enter into a relationship with Him by keeping them?
How can we answer questions like this?
We must look at the context of the commandments:
- Including the immediate context of the passage,
- Including the context of the storyline of the book of Exodus,
- Including the context of the overall storyline of the Bible,
- Including what the New Testament has to say about these commandments.
“Who am I?”
Many people spend years trying to answer that question.
We Americans in particular spend time and energy trying to discover ourselves. So we take personality tests and, in evangelical…