What Does It Mean to Be Baptized for the Forgiveness of Our Sins?
This is Question #5 in Michael Strickland and Anessa Westbrook’s New Birth: Conversion and Baptism.
Habitual Sin: Do We Want to Get Well?
“One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to […]
Learning to Pray: Pause (Part 1 of P.R.A.Y.)
Prayer is more challenging than we’d like to admit. At its most basic elements, prayer is having a conversation with God. Sounds easy enough. But what if you don’t know […]
Does Hebrews Teach We Can Lose Our Salvation? (Part 3)
*Editor’s Note: Can Christians lose their salvation–or were they never true Christians to begin with? This is Part 3 of a series dealing with these questions and exploring our eternal […]
Sermon on the Mount: Fulfilling the Law
In the second century, some of the early church fathers thought the Old Testament was weird, kinda pointless, and should be cut out of the Bible entirely. (To be fair, […]
3 Steps to Passing Along the Faith: Repeat (Part 3)
Here is Part 1 (“Hear”) and Part 2 (“Obey”). The Shema, recorded in Deuteronomy, was originally spoken to the Israelites on their way into the Promised Land. This section of […]
Sermon on the Mount: 7 Questions to Ask of Each Beatitude
*Editor’s Note: This is the final article in a 13-part series on the Beatitudes. Here’s the complete list of articles in the series: Who Does Jesus Think He Is? Crowds […]
There Are Two Crosses in the Life of a Christian
There are two crosses in the life of every true Christian: the cross on which Jesus suffered and died, and the cross on which we must suffer and die to […]