No doubt, many of you are already protesting that he didn’t die. I know what Islam teaches regarding this. But as a follower of Jesus who believes the Injil we have today is the accurate and unchanged word of God I have to believe that our Lord Jesus Christ died because the Injil so clearly [...]
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Jesus Christ Died
Posted in God, Jesus Christ on April 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Lack Peace of Mind? Pray!
Posted in God, Peace, Prayer on March 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
From The Works of God: D.A. Carson, on God and prayer in the midst of suffering: The degree of our peace of mind is tied to our prayer life (Phil. 4:6-7). This is not because prayer is psychologically soothing, but because we address a prayer-answering God, a personal God, a responding God, a sovereign God [...]
Do You Relate to God by Being “Good”?
Posted in God, Jesus Christ, Religion on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Vitamin Z: “Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you related to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it. Some religions are what you might call nationalistic: You connect to God, they say, by coming into [...]
The Holiness of God
Posted in Books, God on March 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When I was in college, God used The Holiness of God by RC Sproul to rock my world. It was the first book of any theological substance that I had read. Before reading that book my theological understanding of God was about an inch deep. That book was like a meteor that crashed into my [...]
The Prophet Noah
Posted in Bible, God, Knowing God, Prayer on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Because we named our new son after the prophet Noah, I have spent some time reading the story of Noah and thinking about ways I can be praying for our son from the things I see in his life. As I have read the prophet Noah’s story (in the Bible it is found in Genesis [...]
The Prophets’ Story
Posted in Bible, God, Jesus Christ on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following video is a great telling of the story of the prophets leading up to the coming of the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary.
Muslims and Christians Together on Stephen Hawking
Posted in Christians, God, Muslims, Truth on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, makes the claim that we don’t need God to create the universe. Hawking writes, “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we [...]
