Friday DIVE

    CHRISTIAN LIVING When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, we have begun the Christian life.  Accepting Christ is only a beginning – God isn’t finished with us yet.  After we come to faith, what do we do?  How does faith make a difference in the way we live?  What does God want […]

    CHRISTIAN LIVING When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, we have begun the Christian life.  Accepting Christ is only a beginning – God isn’t finished with us yet.  After we come to faith, what do we do?  How does faith make a difference in the way we live?  What does God want

    “Union with Christ” Having looked at the term all are included (which pertains to the reconciliation all humankind has with God in Christ), we now can look at a related biblical teaching that also needs clarification — the term here is union with Christ.  As with reconciliation, we err if we view union with

NOTE:  The following is from an essay entitled CLARIFYING OUR THEOLOGICAL VISION … by Dr. Gary Deddo.    Clarifying Two Key Terms:  “ALL ARE INCLUDED” and “UNION WITH CHRIST”     The goal of this ongoing series of articles is to clarify some of the key terms we use in communicating the wonderful truths of our incarnational Trinitarian faith. 

  One of my favourite passages is John 14:20 … so you can imagine my joy when I saw that it was a kind of keynote passage in the lead article for the May ’24 edition of The GCI Equipper.  Lets’s look at what it says … John 14:20 (NKJV)  At that day you will

  FOUR WORDS and FIVE VIEWS OF HELL   Which hell? Four different Greek and Hebrew words were translated by the single word hell in the King James Version of the Bible.  This unfortunate rendering has been the source of considerable confusion through the centuries.  Any attempt to discern the biblical teaching about hell requires

  THE BATTLE OVER HELL         “The Case Against Christianity.” What had prompted the visitor to level such a charge? I took a closer look at the painting.  At the top of the canvas, in heaven, sits an impassive Jesus, surrounded by a host of angels and an adoring multitude of the saved. 

OPENING SONG   OPENING PRAYER   THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST       NEW TESTAMENT Passages Matthew 1:23  -“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” John 1:1-3, 14  -“In the beginning was the Word,

OPENING SONG   OPENING PRAYER   THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST       NEW TESTAMENT Passages Matthew 1:23  -“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” John 1:1-3, 14  -“In the beginning was the Word,

  A.  Last Friday, we considered the question Did God create evil? B.  Tonight, we want to look at another question, “What is the purpose of evil?” C.  Before that, however … a recap of some of the points we noticed last time … We noted that there is a passage in the Bible, where