As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible to celebrate the birth of Jesus that most of us aren't familiar with. The angels sang ...
The word theology is derived from two Greek words: Theos (God) and logos (speech or reason). Therefore, theology in its simplest terms is rational discussion about God. It has been ...
Where is the best place to live? Every year, the UN asks this question about countries, and release their recommendations in the Human Development Report. The UN uses only three ...
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It's the first response to news of a sick or hurting friend—"I'll pray for you." The Bible tells us that prayer has the power to heal. So what are we ...
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Despite the church's best efforts at abstinence education, 90 percent of all American adults will have sex before marriage. Maybe what the church has been teaching about ...
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In the prosperity gospel, health, success, and ever-soaring profits in business are coveted, cherished, and publicly flaunted as signs of God's favor. In this new type of ...
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The gospel of moralistic therapeutic deism is running rampant in the church. In an interview with Mark Galli, theologian Michael Horton says we are tempted to live a Christless ...
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A popular idea in our pluralistic times is that Jesus is no more special than Muhammad, Buddha, and or any other religious leader. This runs counter to what Jesus said about ...
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According to Leslie Leyland Fields in "The Myth of the Perfect Parent," Bible-believing parents have imbibed the philosophy of John B. Watson, an early 20th-century ...
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Today's young people do not look at the world as their parents did, so the way we express the gospel to them needs to be rethought. But how do we express the gospel in ...
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Doing a web search on the question "What is the opposite of fear– yields some interesting results. Some websites say love, another said happiness. According to ...
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The burnt offering is in one sense the most "complete" of all the sacrifices offered to God. In every other type of offering, only a small portion is burnt on the ...
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In this study, we will examine the uniqueness of the grain offering—the significance of offering to God the work of our hands, and the role of purity. We will see how ...
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In this study, we will examine the fellowship offering, also called the peace offering. We will look at the relationship of fellowship, peace with God, and thankfulness, along ...
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This study examines the sin offering, which—along with the guilt offering—is often seen as prophetic of the role of Christ as the redeemer of sin. We will examine ...
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The guilt offering, which deals specifically with issues of ritual uncleanness, might seem on the surface to have little to do with modern Christianity. This study will examine ...
As familiar as we are with the songs of Christmas, there are four songs recorded in the Bible to celebrate the birth of Jesus that most of us aren't familiar with. The angels sang ...
The people involved in the Nativity story are familiar to us, but what can we learn from them? This five-session course will look at those in the genealogy of Jesus, as well as the ...
Our world is broken. This is clear from the pages of the Bible, the wars between nations, and the grief of our own hearts. The book of Genesis reveals an intimate and faithful God, ...
This basic ten-session course on the Gospel of John identifies the seven names and titles of Jesus that reveal him as the eternal God, who came to transform us. Miracles testified ...