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Category Archives: Belief
Meet the citizens of heaven
It might surprise some to meet the true citizens of heaven. Many religious leaders “shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces” (Matthew 23:13). Jesus said of them, “You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. ….You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are” (Matthew 23:14-15). Jesus said to these religious leaders, “religious leaders “shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces” (Matthew 23:13). Jesus said, “You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. …Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you” (Matthew 21:31). Continue reading
Posted in Afraid to die, Afterlife, Assurance, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Blessed by God, Born again?, Christian worldview, Christianity, Cliches, Comfort, Cross of Christ, Cross of Jesus, Crucifixion, Death of Christ, Depravity, Disciple-making, Elentics, Eternal life, Eternal security, Evangelism, Faith, Fear of death, God's Heart, God's Love, Godly sorrow, Gospel, Gospel-centered, Grace, Greatness, Heaven, Human depravity, Humility, Jesus Christ, Justification, Legalism, Main problem, Matthew 7:1-6, Meekness, New Creation, Pharisees, Poor in spirit, Proud, Reconciliation, Regeneration, Religion, Religion-not the answer, Repentance, Salvation, Searching, Security of salvation, Seeker Services, Seeking God, Selfishness, Sin, Spiritual inventory, Teaching of Jesus, The cross of Christ, Unbelief, Walking with God, Witness, Worldly sorrow
Tagged How to know if you're going to heaven, Religion-not the answer, Who will be in heaven?
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What does it mean to believe?
Belief is not merely an agreement with facts about God. Rarely is unbelief solely a matter of changing one’s mind about facts. Continue reading
Posted in Belief, Christianity, Following Christ, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Teaching of Jesus, Unbelief, Wisdom
Tagged Belief, True faith, What does it mean to believe?
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How does it feel to be so rich?
Do you think of yourself as one of the wealthiest people of human history? The facts about wealth should challenge the way most of us think and live. Continue reading
Posted in Andy Stanley, Anxiety, Belief, Character, Chesterton, Confession, Gay, George Beverly Shea, Graduates
Tagged feeling discontent, how to get rich, rich people, Statistics on wealth, wealthy people
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A closer look at repentance
What does it mean to repent? Is it a change of lifestyle or a deeper change prior to other changes? Has repentance been misunderstood? Continue reading
God of the vulnerable
“What a contrast. We see God, the most potent and self-sufficient Power imaginable, continually expressing profound concern for the least potent and self-sufficient — the orphan in distress.” Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Adoption, Anthropology, Apologetics, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Call to ministry, Christian life, Christian worldview, Christianity, Comfort, Common Good, Common grace, Ethics, Evangelicals, Evil in the world, God, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Protection, God's Will, Grace, Holistic ministry, Love, Mercy, Missions, Orphans, Prison Ministry, Radical love, Religion-not the answer, Seeing God, Seeking God, Social work, Theodicy, Vision
Tagged Adoption, God's true character, Mercy ministries, Orphan ministry
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Renewed commitment to boundaries
The demand for absolute liberty of personal choice; the power of each of us to choose and act upon what he or she desires and believes is at the root of our cultural demise. We must face the universal and ugly reality that we are dangerous to ourselves when we embrace freedom without truth and life without limits. Continue reading
Posted in Behavior, Belief, Christian life, Christian worldview, Citizenship, Culture, Culture of Honor
Tagged bondage, Boundaries, Freedom, slavery, true freedom
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Faith in science?
Naive young people are vulnerable to the impression that science has conclusively proven that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Continue reading
Posted in Academy, Anthropology, Atheism, Atheists, Belief, Christian worldview, Creation, Culture, Evil in the world, Evolution, Faith, Fear of religion, Freedom, God, Human depravity, Human dignity, Humanism, Intelligent Design, Life, Philosophy, Sam Harris, Science, Truth, Wisdom, Worldview
Tagged Creation, Evolution, Faith, Intelligent design, Materialism, Philosophy, Science
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