One of the things that I have struggled with in my own faith, and I know others struggle with in regards to my faith, is this thing of a being called the Devil, or Satan. See what 1 John 3:8b says: “The reason the Son of God (Jesus Christ) appeared was to destroy the works …
I don’t know much about Ed Stetzer, but I admit I found a blog post of his very interesting lately and will probably mill around his blog more. At any rate, I wanted to quote a few paragraphs from the blog post I particularly enjoyed. Read the full post here. Evangelicals have tended to try …
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(The Resurrection of Christ by Irina Kolbneva, see www.arthit.ru) Eph 1: “…what is the immeasurable greatness of his power to us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ [Messiah] when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, …
In pt. 2 of my ‘original sin’ blogs, I said that I would get to pt. 3 the following week. That certainly didn’t happen! But, I guess I felt that the real jist of what I wanted to say was said, and pt. 3 would serve as a summary. Actually, I’m going to use …
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In Romans 5 it talks about how sin brought death into the world. It then goes on to say, on vs 17 that “If, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the …
Well, it’s been a while since my last blog update. Bloem LTT, a week of being horribly sick, some scary times about my income and business, and a whole lot of things inbetween – finally, I get to write a blog entry. Yay! And, let’s hope it’s an interesting one. Basically, last week when I was …
Soteriology (the theology of how we are saved, so to speak) is not an uncomplex discussion. You’ve got “Calvinists,” “Arminians,” “Free Gracers,” “Catholic,” “Orthodox” and the more recent “faithfulness” guys (they haven’t found a label yet. But, what they believe, in the end, is that your salvation depends on how faithful you were to God… …