The Believer’s Payday: Why Standing Before Christ Should Be Our Greatest Moment
The Believer’s Payday: Why Standing Before Christ Should Be Our Greatest Moment. By Paul N. Benware. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2002. 209 pp. Paper, $17.99. “One of the current myths in the Church of Jesus Christ is that all believers are the same and will always be the same. This is only partly true and […]
Biblical Ha-Ha Moments: Part 1
By Marcia Hornok At a Bible study early in our ministry, my husband, Ken, asked our group what Bible person we would most like to be. I said, “Eve, when Adam woke up.” We like to think about Scripture’s real-life events, where people expressed the emotions we know—from despair to ecstasy, from weeping1 to belly-laughing. […]
Why Is Christ’s Impeccability Essential?
By Anneka Muller im·pec·ca·bi·li·ty (im-pe-kə-bi-lə-tē) n. 1. being free from fault or blameless: flawless; 2. not capable of sinning or liable to sin. The fact that Jesus never sinned is indisputable. But was it even possible for Him to sin? In His human nature, He was subject to temptation, and some say temptation implies the […]
A Real Mountaintop Experience
By Gene Greeson INTRODUCTION Twenty-eight years ago, when I was 46 years old, I had set my sights on climbing Mount Everest. My plan was to accomplish that feat in the following years with a group of other climbers. While it was a lofty goal, there were reasons why I thought it was an attainable […]
Can a Christian Quit?
By Lucas Kitchen A reader recently claimed that it would be wrong for God to force a Christian-turned-atheist into heaven because it would violate his or her free will. This raises an interesting question. This is my response to that claim. If someone has believed in Jesus for salvation, then these verses apply to him […]
What Would Jesus Say? The Seven Churches of Revelation: The Letter to Pergamum (Rev 2:12-17)
By Philippe R. Sterling BEWARE OF DOCTRINAL AND MORAL COMPROMISE There are similarities between the New Testament world and ours. When the apostle John wrote down Jesus’ message to the seven churches, philosophies from the East, from Egypt, and from the hills beyond Pergamum were sweeping through the Mediterranean world. People were spiritually hungry, but […]
Happy Hanukkah? Should Christians Be Happy about Hanukkah?
By Dix Winston Hanukkah, also called the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish festival celebrating the time when Israel gained independence from Greece and, beginning on the 25th of Chislev, the subsequent rededication of the temple. This year, Hanukkah will be celebrated December 18-26. The temple had to be rededicated because Antiochus Epiphanes had […]
Current Issues in Assurance of Salvation: Tallahassee Regional Conference, 2022
YouTube video of the GES Regional Conference at Cristo Fusion/Chapel Hill Baptist Church in Tallahassee, FL (in English & Spanish):
The Bible Is Reliable, Part 2
By Dix Winston In part 1, we saw that the Bible accurately records the words and events in the life of Christ. This is important since the Gospels are the primary source document on the words and works of Christ. If they did not accurately record what He said and did, we lose our message. […]
What Would Jesus Say? The Seven Churches of Revelation: The Letter to Smyrna (Rev 2:8-11)
By Philippe Sterling PERSECUTED AND POOR, BUT RICH Have you ever been persecuted for your faith? Have you ever been put at a disadvantage because of your faith? Have others ever hated or shunned you because you were a believer? The example of the church at Smyrna alerts us to the possibility of being persecuted […]