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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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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.The Bible speaks clearly about drinking alcohol, or “strong drink” as it is called in Scripture. Before I give an answer to this question, we must search the Scriptures to determine what God says. Let’s begin by...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There’s a lot of evidence that indicates Jesus was not likely born in December and was probably born in September (Read: Was Jesus born in September?). Some of the many reasons for a non-December birth are based...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Christians are being slaughtered for their faith in the Middle East. They have not been silent about their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The questions have been raised,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Catholic Church believes that saints (those who have been canonized by the Church) hear prayers and are able to act as intercessors, presenting prayers to God. To discern whether this is biblical, let’s look...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. So often we hear messages about what Christians are to do. Do this, do that. They’re all about “go and do,” and they all seem to be prodding the “sheep” with the rod, rather than guiding the sheep with the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In our Got Questions? column we’ve addressed the question, What is Election? We’ve looked at two five-point theological statements that address the doctrine of election: the Five Articles of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Election is a term for a doctrine (teaching) of salvation. The term is found only in the New Testament, but the doctrine is exemplified throughout the Bible. Election is God’s selection of people or groups of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Daily we evaluate our lives, reviewing what we’ve thought, said and done. We consider the good things and the bad…and we should! It’s absolutely necessary to reflect upon our thoughts, words and actions so...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Hebrews 11 is all about our “fathers in the faith.” It speaks of Old Testament saints who trusted God and demonstrated it by their words and actions and serve as great examples to us of steadfast faith. Hebrews 12...
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