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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Many pithy (concise and forcefully expressive) sayings are used in everyday conversation. However, most people have no idea of their origins. It should be no surprise that many of the sayings are found in the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus It must be noted that the Old Testament prohibition about blood is a dietary restriction. It is about ingesting blood by mouth. It is not about a medical procedure...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. It’s important for a new or young-in-the-faith believer to build a firm foundation of faith in Christ. The Bible is spiritual food necessary for growth. For new, young, or mature Christians, we can never exhaust...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question A saved friend has a daughter who took a small step to nowhere–she’s using drugs. What are the obvious moral and spiritual implications behind taking drugs? She knows all about Jesus and needs to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. When I was a young child, my father would quiz me with this trivia question: “What is the shortest verse in the Bible?” The answer was simple, “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). I always got it right, but...
by Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Many pithy (concise and forcefully expressive) sayings are used in everyday conversation. However, most people have no idea of their origins. It should be no surprise that many of the sayings are found in the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them.By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus David Kinnaman, in his book You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and Rethinking Faith labeled the current generation as nomads, prodigals and exiles. ...
by Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Many pithy (concise and forcefully expressive) sayings are used in everyday conversation. However, most people have no idea of their origins. It should be no surprise that many of the sayings are found in the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Paul speaks very clearly in Galatians 5 about our battle against the enemy within…ourselves. All too often we look to others, or even demonic spiritual forces, to be the...
by Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus War, huh, yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Remember those lyrics? They’re from the 1969 protest song, “War,” by Edwin Starr (It was also recorded by The...