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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We all want to help a seeker in their search for truth. Get equipped and be ready to give a reason for your Hope! For a prayer to help a seeker find Jesus, visit our Salvation Page. Get More Bible Answers &...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Romans Road, the John Road, and Revelation Road are “paths” of Bible verses that tell the way to become a new creation in Jesus Christ. Perhaps there are more. If you know of another, please let...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Matthew 5:48 says that we are to be perfect and, it says, we are to be as perfect as God is, Wow! If Jesus meant that, then we have a real problem. We can’t be perfect. So how should we understand Jesus’...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. After the events of 9/11 that shook the nation, the church became a place of refuge for thousands who gathered to pray for the victims, their families, the missing, the heroic first responders, and the nation’s...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In 2001, Steve Schneibner was pastoring a church in Maine. He was also a pilot for American Airlines. On the morning of September 11th, 2001, he should have been in the cockpit of American Airlines Flight 11— but...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Little did I know that as I was concluding the “Saints in Glory” series in June, that the Lord would take my dear wife, Jenni, to Heaven. I had written the final article but had not yet sent it to our editor at...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There’s a Catholic doctrine that asserts there is “no salvation outside the Church” — and by that they mean the Catholic church. The doctrine claims that grace flows essentially through the Catholic...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Daniel 9 foretells a seven-year period in Israel’s future that is commonly called the Seventieth Week of Daniel. The chapter begins by telling of Daniel’s understanding that Israel’s time of captivity in Babylon...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Calvinism is a theological explanation of biblical doctrines put forth by the followers of John Calvin (1509-1564). Therefore the real question becomes, are these teachings biblically supported?. Before we give...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When someone is saved, it’s often said, “I gave my life to Jesus.” But what does that really mean? Doesn’t everything on earth, and every person who’s ever lived or is now alive, belong to the Creator of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The loss of a child is perhaps the most heart-wrenching of all losses. From a centuries-old letter, we read the words of a bereaved father, grieving the loss of his son but steadfast in faith in his Saviour. A...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. This is a teaching that is held by some Christians. It offers a way to reconcile the Bible with the claims of the earth being millions, even billions, of years old (Read also, Were the Days of Creation 24-hour...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. It has been more than four months since the shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Most churches have now reopened — although with reduced attendance and social distancing practices. What effect has...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Many Christians have read the following verses and feared that salvation can be lost. Heb 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Racism against any ethnic group is WRONG! And in the eyes of God, it is sinful. Jesus taught us to love one another and not to discriminate based on ethnicity or skin color. God tells us that, ‘He has made...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Sin so bewitches the soul, that it makes the soul call . . . evil good, and good evil; bittersweet, and sweet bitter; light darkness, and darkness light. Ah, souls! When you shall lie upon a dying bed, and...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. At the mention of never-never land, most people will think of the fictional story of “Peter Pan.” It was created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie in 1904, and it’s the story of a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. So what’s a Mnason? Actually, the question should be, who was Mnason? Mnason was a first-century Jew and he’s mentioned in the Bible. However, he’s only mentioned once in Acts 21. Maybe you’re wondering...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever!” Revelation 22:5 This vision...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The crown of righteousness is a reward that is mentioned in one of Paul’s letters to Timothy: 2 Tim 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give...