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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus The movie, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” based on the book by the same title, releases this weekend. While I know very little about the book, I know enough to say,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Predestination is the doctrine that attempts to explain how God accomplishes His will in our world through His foreknowledge and by foreordaining all things that come to pass. It must be understood in the context...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. C. S. Lewis is often quoted as having said, “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul; you have a body,” however, this saying is not found in any of his published writings. The phrase can be traced back to a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The first mention of a crown in the New Testament is a crown of thorns, representative of the curse of thorns and thistles that was placed upon the earth when man sinned (Genesis 3:18). This crown of thorns was...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question I have friends who are afraid they might commit the unpardonable sin. Should I be afraid? What will happen to me if I blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Answer The unpardonable sin is one of the most...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many people who are alone at Christmas. Whether those we love and care about are absent because of death, distance, health or relational problems, being alone is not uncommon at Christmas or throughout...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. May the mind of Christ live in me,Every minute of every day.May the grace that He has given me,Establish my heart in His perfect way. (Hebrews 13:9) May I always reflect that wondrous love,His sacrificial...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many types of prayers. If we are specific, the list could be endless, but in general most will agree there are seven or eight categories (It depends on who’s counting, but I count eight. Eight is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question If the Bible says “it is appointed to man once to die and then the judgment,” how do we harmonize Lazarus being raised from the dead and thus having to die twice? The same question applies for anyone who...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Q. Is there anything in the Bible that speaks against cremation? Is it okay for a Christian to be cremated? A. There is nothing in the Bible commanding that a body must be buried. Nor is there anything that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Today is more than Halloween! It’s also Reformation Day! Sweeter than any Halloween candy is the “treat” that has been passed down through the ages. On October 31, 1517, the 16th century German theologian and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. This is a question that we would love to be able to answer with “yes.” We all love our pets, and many believe that they will go to Heaven when they die. But will they? The Bible does not explicitly...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question I’ve been told that God has many names. I know of Yahweh, Yeshua and Jesus, but what other names are there? And why are there other names? Aren’t Yahweh, Yeshua and Jesus enough? Answer Before we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Last week’s Got Question addressed, Is it a sin to drink alcohol? Our website “lit up” with visitors. It crashed several times with too much traffic, but fortunately...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus We all fear. It’s an emotion that grabs and grips us with a hold that is strong and controlling. Fear rises up in us when we find ourselves in dangerous situations, when we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. To understand the time of fulfillment of this prophesy, we must back up and read the entire passage that Peter quoted and the context regarding to whom and when Peter was speaking. Peter was preaching on the day...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Last week, we talked about the ear gate and asked, “Is the Monkey at Your Gate?” The eye is another gate through which information enters into our minds. While the ear gate...
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By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Question I have been struggling with this, why did God choose to send his Son to die to forgive our sins? Why couldn’t God have done something else? Answer The question, Could It Have Been Done Another Way, was originally...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus [Note: the monkey at your gate will make sense when you finish reading.] As Christians we are all familiar with the saying, “we live in the world but we are not of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. To answer this question we need to begin with the understanding that, as Christians, our trust is grounded in the Lord Jesus Christ. While we have many reasons to accept and believe that the Bible is accurate, we...
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