by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Jesus commanded His disciples to love one another. How should we understand that command? What should it mean to us? Let’s first look at Jesus’ words in context to understand better what His...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. [Two Videos Below] Saint Patrick’s Day has become a BIG party day—a day for parades and celebrations, a day of eating Irish food and drinking green beer and Irish Whiskey. It’s a day of wearing green and...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. We’ve covered The Romans Road to Salvation, The John Road to Salvation, and The Revelation Road to Salvation. Those three roads give verses that “lead the way” to justification. Justification is...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses about man’s lostness and how to make it “home.” We’ve covered The Romans Road,...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses telling man’s lostness and how to make it “home.” The Romans Road is likely the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses about man’s lost condition and how to make it “home.” The Romans Road is likely the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Four Loves is a book by C. S. Lewis, written from a series of radio talks in 1958 and published in 1960. It examines love from Christian and philosophical perspectives. Lewis distinguishes between...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Bible is not clear on this. However, I suggest two possibilities based on biblical information and reasoning. Let’s start with what we know: We know the wise men could not have come before the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Although both Simeon and Anna (Luke 2) are often overlooked in the nativity narrative, they are both very significant. Each had an important role in establishing Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God....
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Although both Simeon and Anna (Luke 2) are often overlooked in the nativity narrative, they are significant and had important roles in declaring and establishing Jesus as the Messiah and the Son of God. Remembering...
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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. One of my favorite narratives of the birth of Jesus is often overlooked. We all know that angels told the shepherds of the miraculous birth of a child, a Saviour who is Christ the Lord, born in the city of David....
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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. >>Click here to get equipping, encouraging, and empowering Biblical truth and wisdom weekly. The Top Ten Got Questions? in 2023 The Meaning of NUMBERS in the Bible? Was Jesus CRUCIFIED on Wednesday,...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Most of us know these verses: And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men. Luke 2:13-14 But...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Many have Nativity scenes that feature a stable as Jesus’ birthplace, but was Jesus born in a stable? Or could it have been a cave? Or a house? The easy answer to this is that we don’t know. We...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Why do people shorten Christmas to Xmas? Since Jesus Christ is the Word, why would anyone want to leave the word Christ out of Christmas? Does using Xmas dishonor Jesus? Lots of Questions For Which There Are...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. There is a lot of information in the Bible about the events of Jesus’ birth. From prophecy throughout the Old Testament to the historical records of the Gospel accounts we read about the significant events...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. We’ve all heard the saying, “The monkey on your back.” It refers to a nuisance one must deal with or endure. A “monkey on your back” can be many things — such as a boss who micromanages...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. There’s much we can learn from the Peanuts Gang. From the innocence of the characters to the words of truth and the love they display, Charlie Brown and his friends are a bright spot in an ever-increasingly...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Greek word for “perish” is “apollumi” (ap-ol’-loo-mee), and it means to destroy entirely, to die, or to lose. Scripture speaks of perishing 156 times. Sometimes, it concerns...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. The Bible mentions the Mazzaroth but tells us very little about what it is. But there is a meaning to it, and in Jewish thought, the Mazzaroth would be a remez. What’s a remez? In Jewish hermeneutics...