After the fall, God could no longer express His love and care for Adam and Eve as He had in the beginning. All of humanity was living in a broken relationship with God. Now people were living with their eyes opened to the knowledge of good and evil. Because people had no connection with God …
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Jesus didn’t just show us a new way, He made it possible for us to live in that new way. He gave us the New Covenant to replace the Old. In the New Covenant we receive from God by faith. It is a two-step process summarized clearly in First John: “And this is His commandment: …
Tragic as it was, God used the fall, and the struggles of the people in the Old Testament, to display His sacrificial love. Without the fall, love would not have been able to express itself in complete, grand form. God’s love reached down to us when Jesus became a man and took our place by …
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Today many Christians understand that a mix of grace and self-effort will never save us. Martin Luther clearly taught the truth that we are justified by faith alone. Eternal life is not earned by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus as the Son of God. However, Luther did not teach Jesus’ New …
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Many Christians today understand that we are justified by Christ alone. A justified person knows that their sins are forgiven and eternal life is theirs. But, far too few of us really understand that we are also glorified by Christ alone. In Romans 8:29-30, Paul tells us, “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to …
Up until that hot August day at Edna’s in 2004, I had stayed busy, living my version of a “good” Christian life by trying to love God and others. I’d lived this way because deep down in my soul, I thought I had to earn God’s love by doing “good” things and avoiding evil ones. …
As mentioned in the prior chapter, the New Covenant includes two parts: “[1] believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and [2] love one another as He gave us commandment (1 John 3:23). Throughout the New Testament we are repeatedly reminded of faith and love. Faith alone isn’t enough to life a full …
So, you are not ready to give the control of your life and believe in Jesus as your Savior and Lord. We are all on a spiritual journey; so, we encourage you to keep going! Stay in this app and read other articles. Read the Bible, starting with the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel …
The Hebrew Scriptures are a three-part collection of scrolls known as the Torah, Prophets, and Writings, or “TaNaK” for short. Did you know that the arrangement of the Old Testament in Christian Bibles is not original? Along with all ancient Jews, Jesus encountered the Scriptures as a three-part collection of scrolls known as the Torah, …
God creates a good world and commissions humans to rule it, but they choose rebellion again and again. When God looks at the world he made, he declares it good. He installs humans as his partners in ruling creation, but the humans choose to do what is good in their own eyes, leading ultimately to …