by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: Who can understand it?” This verse is often spoken by Bible preachers and teachers as a warning to Christians about their...
by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. College has increasingly become a place where one’s faith in Jesus is being attacked. We know from multiple studies that many young people leave their faith while in college. It may not be intentional, but slowly,...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Israel had three harvests each year, and each offers a prophetic pattern and typology for our understanding. The three harvests of Israel are: Barley harvest in early spring Wheat harvest in late spring or early...
by Chuck Myer, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1:28 – NKJV) I have been blessed of God to...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Symbolism is the use of one thing (a symbol) to represent another thing. A symbol points to something beyond the symbol itself. Typology is a kind of symbolism. It also points to something. However, typology is...
by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Distance from God is something that all Christians experience from time to time. Sometimes it might feel like prayers are unheard, but we must remember that we know they are heard (1 Pet 3:12). There might also be...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are three very significant gifts from God that are mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13. Each of these gifts — faith, hope, and love — is both positional (in our justification) and practical (in our...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There’s a teaching that claims Jesus went to Hell after He died to take back the keys of death and Hell from Satan. It’s reasoned that when Adam sinned, Satan was given dominion over Adam and all the earth....
by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question: I have heard the saying “all dogs go to heaven”, but animals don’t have a soul. Still, do our beloved pets go to heaven when they pass, and will we see them again? It is truly difficult to lose a pet...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible tells us that, on earth, man sees “through a glass, darkly” or “through a mirror, dimly” (1 Cor 13:12a), but in Heaven, we will see “face-to-face” (1 Cor 13:12b). In Heaven, we will see God in all His...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Revelation 3:5 records the words of Jesus that were written in a letter and sent to the church at Sardis. Some might read this verse and think it suggests that salvation can be lost if one does not overcome. Rev...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A growing problem in the church today is the apostasy of some leaders. Recently, two high-profile church leaders left their jobs and renounced their beliefs. How should Christians understand and deal with such...
by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Over six decades (around late 1910s-1980s), it’s counted that 205 people died in public shootings in America. Contrast that with the early 1980s unto today, in which more than 1,400 people have died in public...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century Presbyterian preacher and theologian, is quoted as having said, “You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.” Faith Given by God Ephesians 2:8...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A lot of Christians don’t share the gospel, the good news of the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Why? Perhaps one of these reasons:They are afraid they won’t have the right words.They won’t know...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Sometimes it does feel like God is far away. It feels like prayers are unheard and reading the Bible feels unfulfilling. But is God really far away? And if not, why do we all experience a feeling of distance...
by Alex McFarland and Shari Abbott
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. While words are “just words,” every word carries a meaning and an influence that is used to communicate and that’s why words matter. Our ability to use words to communicate is a gift from God called language. ...
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