It has been suggested that the average western person encounters 14 000 sexual suggestions per day, whether through images, movies, adverts, music, dialogue, printed matter, or other media. During the time in which Paul wrote, sexual sin was...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The three primary sins that trap the greatest number of people must be sexual sin, sins of speech, and sins of greed.The Bible is not saying that people who struggle with sexual sin should stay away from the church. Rather, it says that believers...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The command to love people is tightly connected to powerful motivations. Christians can love people because God has forgiven us. Jesus declared that those who have been forgiven much, are people who love much. If you want to become a more loving...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As it happens in Africa, as Paul walks in among those gathered in Antioch, they asked him to speak. His only choice is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus' coming was foretold since the beginning of the world. He was born, as prophesied, into the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the ways in which we can see the love of God is in His command to get rid of anger. anger is massively destructive, and it gains control over an angry person to his detriment. Isn't it love to remove us from that? Yet that is not where it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The only solid hope of three hundred ragged prisoners of war, was that they had just seen aeroplanes fly over; their rescue had arrived.The only solid hope you have, trapped in a life of sin and its miserable consequences, is found in Jesus...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Do you find your mind turning around in a loop, like a phrase from an annoying song? Are you stuck in a pattern of thouth that focuses on how someone else has hurt you? Does this fixation flow out into your speech, in gossip, in complaining? These...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
He looks into her eyes. The ship is going down and he knows his dear wife can't swim. They only have one life-jacket between them. His chances of survival are slim. Yet he is compelled from deep within to give her his life-jacket, and so give her...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Mormon literature it is common to encounter the phrase, "All men are saved by grace alone without any act on their part."To the unsuspecting, first-time hearer, this may sound satisfyingly orthodox. Yet when one comes to understand how this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Christians emphasise salvation. Mormons emphasise salvation. If these two definitions of salvation differ, a clash becomes inevitable. To the Christian, God is able to save an individual, regardless of how sinful he is, regardless of his age or...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
