by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. A parable is a short story designed to teach a moral or a faith-focused lesson. Jesus told many parables, like the parable of the sower, parable of the talents, etc. He told these short stories to give us a better...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In our time of sound bites and video clips, the attention span of many is growing shorter and shorter. “Give it to me fast. Make it brief.” That seems to be what people want. As Christians, we know...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We have all heard, “the Bible says money is the root of all evil.” But that’s not what the Bible says. Paul wrote to Timothy about money and said: “the love of money is the root of all...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible tells that man is a trichotomy, a tripartite (three-part) being. And one of those parts is the spirit. 1 Th 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. and I pray God your whole [1] spirit and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Matthew 1:21 . . . thou shalt call His name Jesus In the times we are now living, with so much ambiguity about truth, social interest, cultural chaos, racial strife, gender confusion, let us turn to the One who is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Maybe you’ve heard “The Hound of Heaven” used as a “name” for God. It’s been around since the late 19th century when a poem by that name gained international attention. While...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. God sent fire from Heaven every time a sacrifice was consumed. However, in the Old Testament, there are at least seven very significant recorded occurrences of fire from Heaven: Fire from Heaven destroyed Job’s...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. a We received this email from a reader: I am confused by verses that seem to say that everyone will be saved. “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.” 1 Corinthians...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. No one explains this better than A.W. Pink in his book, Gleanings in Genesis. So we’ll let him reveal the ways in which the life of Joseph is a foreshadow of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. ***A Hidden Message...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible is all about Jesus and it reveals all that Jesus is! From the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelation, the Bible reveals our Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, and the One who will restore all...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Don’t you just love the wisdom of others? Some of the pithy sayings or the obvious truths spoken by friends, family and even people we’ve never met can cause us to stop and ponder. It’s Important...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Both the Abrahamic Covenant and the New Covenant are unconditional covenants. All promises of both covenants are guaranteed to come to pass. Why? Because they are based on the faithfulness of God…not man....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The life of Abram (later Abraham) is an amazing illustration of living by faith. (Check out our Abraham Study on our Bible Study Resources page). But it was God alone who established the Abrahamic Covenant. In...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “The Obsolete Man” is an episode from The Twilight Zone that offers a prophetic warning about man’s destiny. It ran on June 2, 1961, and yet it is a must-see for all people in our time—60+ years...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Jude, in his letter that warned about apostates and false teachers, made a reference to something the prophet Enoch said: Jude 1:14-15 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Ehyeh, Yahweh, Jehovah, or Jesus? What name are we to call God? First, understand that Jehovah (sometimes written Yehovah) is the anglicized version of the name Yahweh, the name God gave to Moses. So the names,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible records many of the words that Jesus spoke during His earthly ministry. And if you have a red-letter Bible, it’s easy to identify Jesus’ words because they’re all in red! The questions...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The life of Abraham is a lesson of relationship, faith, and hope. Join us in a study of the patriarch of Israel, his life, his loves, his devotion to God, and more. Check it out on our Bible Study Resources Page....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Five Major Worldview Categories Naturalism: atheism, agnosticism, existentialism Pantheism: Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, New Age, Consciousness Theism: Christianity, Judaism, Islam Spiritism and Polytheism...
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