by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
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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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Let’s remember that God created a world that was perfect and a man who was sinless (Gen 1:31). But it’s true, God knew before He created man that man would sin. He knew that both the man and the woman He...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We’ve covered the Good Shepherd in Psalm 23 and seen how we can know that Psalm 22 speaks of the One to come, the Good Shepherd who would lay down His life for His sheep. We also learned about the Great...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In 2010 after doing a study of the Names of God, I began a study of the Psalms. When I came to Psalm 23, I began to see many of God’s names revealed in the psalm by the works of our Great Shepherd. I...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In previous articles, we have seen the Necessity and Provision, Slaying and Character, Personality and Identity, and the Crucifixion and Resurrection of the Lamb. Now we come to the Preaching of the Lamb. After...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Coram Deo is a Latin phrase that means “in the presence of God.” As Christians, we understand that we currently live in His presence spiritually. But one day, we will also live in His presence bodily. Coram...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. [Watch Video Below] We read the accounts of the crucifixion in the Bible and we often see it portrayed in movies and videos. The day in which Jesus was crucified was a day of darkness and death— and it seems to be...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. While we remember Jesus’ crucifixion on the day we call Good Friday, there are many reasons why Friday was not likely the day of the week that the Lord was crucified. ( Read: Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible does not tell us exactly how long Job suffered. We know that his suffering began with the death of his servant and the loss of his livestock and got progressively worse with the deaths of his children...