By Sam Storms (This Dr. Storms article was originally posted on Enjoying God Ministries.) “Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32) Most of the ground that Satan gains in the lives of Christians,” wrote Neil Anderson, “is due to unforgiveness” (Bondage Breaker, 194). I couldn’t agree more. It …
Article by Matt Perman Equally amazing to the doctrine of the Trinity is the doctrine of the Incarnation — that Jesus Christ is God and man, yet one person, forever. As J.I. Packer has said, “Here are two mysteries for the price of one — the plurality of persons within the unity of God, and the …
An essay by, Richard Phillips DEFINITION: The image of a God is a biblical doctrine regarding the nature and purpose of mankind. Genesis 1:27 states that God made man “in his own image,” meaning that the human race was granted a particular likeness to God. SUMMARY Just as Seth bore the “likeness and image” of his father …
The word emet is a common word used to describe God in the Bible. It can be translated as “faithfulness” or “truth.” So when the authors say that God is “full of emet,” they are saying that he is trustworthy and faithful—we can trust him. But trusting isn’t always an easy thing. In this video, …
By Erwin W. Lutzer It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so than no one can boast. —Ephesians 2:8-9 Grace is God’s “unmerited favor” toward us; it comes to us as a gift we do not deserve. Here is something you can count on: …
By Whitney V. Myers “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”(John 17:3) “Life eternal, then, is not mere conscious and unending existence, but a life of acquaintance with God in Christ.” (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary, Ref. 1) This lesson describes the biblical definition …
Article by Scott Hubbard New Year’s Day, 1773, marked a decade since depression nearly snatched away William Cowper’s life. The mental agony tortured him so severely ten winters prior that he was locked up in St. Alban’s insane asylum after a botched suicide attempt. While there, he stumbled upon a Bible that the asylum’s Christian director …
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Salvation is deliverance. All the world religions teach that we need to be delivered, but each has a different understanding of what we need to be delivered from, why we need to be delivered, and how that deliverance can be received or achieved. The Bible makes it abundantly clear, however, that there is only one …
By: John Tweeddale One of the most surprising twists of John 3:16 is that we are told God loves the world. We might be tempted to think that there is much about the world for God to love. After all, what’s not to admire about cityscapes and farmlands, fine cuisine and backyard barbecues, classical symphonies and folk …
What must I do to be saved? The answer to this question has implications both now and for eternity. Sadly, wrong answers are being given all the time. In this study, Don Blackwell opens the Bible and shares with us God’s answer to this question. It is a simple, straight-forward study done in a kind …
