by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question I have friends who are afraid they might commit the unpardonable sin. Should I be afraid? What will happen to me if I blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Answer The unpardonable sin is one of the most...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many people who are alone at Christmas. Whether those we love and care about are absent because of death, distance, health or relational problems, being alone is not uncommon at Christmas or throughout...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many types of prayers. If we are specific, the list could be endless, but in general most will agree there are seven or eight categories (It depends on who’s counting, but I count eight. Eight is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Today is more than Halloween! It’s also Reformation Day! Sweeter than any Halloween candy is the “treat” that has been passed down through the ages. On October 31, 1517, the 16th century German theologian and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question I’ve been told that God has many names. I know of Yahweh, Yeshua and Jesus, but what other names are there? And why are there other names? Aren’t Yahweh, Yeshua and Jesus enough? Answer Before we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Last week’s Got Question addressed, Is it a sin to drink alcohol? Our website “lit up” with visitors. It crashed several times with too much traffic, but fortunately...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus We all fear. It’s an emotion that grabs and grips us with a hold that is strong and controlling. Fear rises up in us when we find ourselves in dangerous situations, when we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Last week, we talked about the ear gate and asked, “Is the Monkey at Your Gate?” The eye is another gate through which information enters into our minds. While the ear gate...
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By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Question I have been struggling with this, why did God choose to send his Son to die to forgive our sins? Why couldn’t God have done something else? Answer The question, Could It Have Been Done Another Way, was originally...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus [Note: the monkey at your gate will make sense when you finish reading.] As Christians we are all familiar with the saying, “we live in the world but we are not of the...