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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Listening to an online sermon many years ago, I heard a song about the seven sayings of Jesus from the cross. The words are from the perspective of the Roman centurion who stood at the foot of the cross and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Leonard Cohen wrote the song “Hallelujah” with a beautiful melody that stirs the soul and warms the heart. But is the song Hallelujah appropriate for church? What do we know about the song and the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. As I began to write about broken hearts, a song kept running through my mind (watch the song video below). We’ll look at the song lyrics, and you can watch the song video, but first, let’s consider...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Isaiah, God prophecies that He will create new heavens along with the new earth: Isa 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. God also...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics, behaviors, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities (e.g. animals, objects, even cartoon characters). The term “anthropomorphism” is a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Sons of God is a term used of several people groups in the Bible. The simple answer to why Christians are called sons of God is because Christians are born of God. That makes us “sons” (generically…it also...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. As finite and sinful human beings, trying to understand the perfect, unconditional, generous, and gracious love of our infinite God is very difficult. In fact, we can never fully understand it because, unlike...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Every Christian already has peace with God, but the peace of God is a free-will choice. Some will say there are three kinds of peace: peace with, from, and of God. But there are really only two because all true...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Downloadable PDF of the Salvation Bell below] The New Year has come and, for many, the memory of Christmas has already faded away. With each new day comes a fresh new hope for a year of joy and peace. A Word of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Celebrating the new year is biblical, but how you celebrate might not be. The nation of Israel celebrated the advent of the new year, and they did so in the way God prescribed. As we all know, many of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the words to this song while sitting at his sons’ hospital bed. Read the story of the despair he felt and the hope he found in hearing the bells. Read more: Christmas: I...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. My friend Tad just lost his 19 month battle with pancreatic cancer. In sorrow and sadness, with hope and rejoicing, we remember that he just won the greatest victory of his life. He’s been crowned with the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Through the centuries people have told and re-told the story of the birth of Jesus and the events that surrounded it. Sadly, some of the common understanding are not biblically supported. Test your knowledge by...
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Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Last year (June 2017) I wrote about my friend Tad who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (Read about how he shared the gospel with a hospital technician in Philadelphia during a full body scan: Cancer Hope: I Am...
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TNG Radio’s Alex McFarland interviews Shari Abbott, executive director of Reasons for Hope* Jesus. Listen now! Click for a List of All Reasons for Hope* Jesus Videos About Alex McFarland Alex is a speaker, author, educator, and advocate for Christian...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. BC/AD and BCE/CE are well recognized as abbreviations used with the number of a year to designate if the year was before or after the birth of Jesus Christ. Before answering the question about which labeling...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A friend passed away on Wednesday, July 25th. She was a Christian who loved the Lord and loved others enough to tell them about Jesus. She has now joined the cloud of witnesses who have gone before and who have...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Age of Accountability is not a term found in the Bible. However, it is a widely accepted theological teaching supported by many Bible verses and passages. The Age of Accountability deals with the age at which...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. From the ever-popular, always lovable Peanuts Gang come words of truth, hope, and encouragement. Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang share truths about our God. Theology means thoughts about God. Take a few...
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