Theology
Theology
Theology
How to Evaluate Your Sermons
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the...
Theology
Knowing God and making Him known
Knowing God and making Him known are the heartbeat of what it means to be human. Calvin asks in his catechism, “What is the chief end of human life?” He answers, “To know God.” There are several reasons the knowledge of God is central and supreme for all human life....
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The Commendation of Revelation
When people ask me if I think we’re living in the last days, I answer, “Of course we are living in the last days, but we have been living in the last days from the Bible’s point of view for the last two thousand years.” The New Testament says the...
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Dying Delightfully
Our lives are not just a journey to death. They are a journey to one of two eternal places: heaven or hell. In heaven all evil is walled out and all good is walled in. Heaven is an eternal day that knows no sunset. Hell is an eternal night that...
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Dying Demystified
There is a remarkable difference between how an unbeliever and a believer look at dying, death, and the afterlife. For the unbeliever or the agnostic, death is mysterious and the afterlife is even more dubious. For the believer, death is not an extinction or a terminus but only a transition,...
Theology
The Basic Definition of Accommodation in Evangelism
In defining accommodation, we want to consider three significant matters: first, its basic meaning; second, its reflection of God’s character; and third, how it can be applied in our experience. First, the basic meaning of accommodation is difficult both to perceive and practice, for (1) our natural inclination is to...
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How to contextualize and accommodate in evangelism
The Bible itself turns out to be the best guidebook on how to contextualize and accommodate in evangelism. Here are a few points we can draw from this: Jesus is Paul’s pattern for a kind of freedom that becomes the servant of all in order to save. In this mindset,...
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Christ came to bring light
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. — JOHN 12:46 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin. — JOHN 15:22 Bright light is...
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Christ came to save sinners
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. — 1 TIMOTHY 1:15 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the...
