by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. [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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses about man’s lostness and how to make it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses telling man’s lostness and how to make it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. The Bible offers several “roads” to salvation. Each provides a “road map” of verses about man’s lost condition and how to make it...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our ministry work. Although Simeon and Anna (as described in Luke 2) are often overlooked in the nativity narrative, they play significant roles in declaring and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. There’s much we can learn from the Peanuts Gang. From the characters’ innocence to their words of truth and love, Charlie Brown and his friends are a...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. 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...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. More than 500 years ago Martin Luther started a reformation when he posted his 95 thesis to the door of a church in Wittenburg, Germany. To this day, Luther is called...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please consider making a year-end, tax-deductible contribution. To answer this, we must define what we mean by “saved.” Under the New Covenant, we define being saved as being born again (John 3:3, 7; 1 Pet 1:23), having our sins...