From the moment that Adam and Eve sinned, God has been working a plan of redemption. Even through Israel’s failures, God’s plan remained intact. In our last session on the Old Testament, we noted that God gave Israel two important promises: (1) God would send His Messiah, who would be a King from the line of David, and (2) God would...
Hundreds of unwanted babies are abandoned on the streets of Seoul, South Korea every year. With such tragic loss of lives, a pastor sets up an ingenious way to save these babies.
This is the Christian message, over and over it needs to be heard that when we were still sinners – even as we are sinners now – Jesus was crucified for your sins and raised for your justification. Turning this freedom into a yoke of slavery gets Matt Chandler mad.
We often think that we need to get it right, that when we’ve sinned, before going back to God, we need to study the Bible, pray, make sure we are okay – and then we can get back to church. But my friends, Jesus came for sinners. He still comes for them. Admitting you’re weak is not hypocrisy. Weakness is meant to...
Can one life make a difference? Do we right a wrong by committing another wrong?
You–yes, you–are an instrument with unlimited possibilities. It’s easy to make sweet music when all is well, but how do you sound when God allows you to be “struck”? What do the sounds you utter under difficult circumstances reveal about you? God’s word offers courage and strength to not only endure...
What does Peter mean when he says that God granted us the knowledge of all things…through the knowledge of Him who called us? Dr. Mason says it straight: this is Good News!
Anxiety, at its simplest, is an inner turmoil or continued fretting and unease about an imminent event or an uncertain future. Yet anxiety is anything but ‘simple’. Despite that it’s irrational, we try to analyze it. Despite that it doesn’t solve problems, we go over the perceived problem again and again and...
Judas. Liar. Turncoat. Benedict Arnold. The betrayer of our Lord. A name packed with so much shame, judgment, fear, evil and horror that we reserve it for the most devious and damaging people we know. From the moment the silver left the hands of the Pharisees, modern society has chosen the depiction of him: Oily, … Continue...
Names mean a great deal to God – they tell His story, Adam who is dust, Eve who is the mother of all the living, Noah who offers rest. You could tell the story of salvation with names alone. Case in point: David, Bathsheba, and Solomon. Not exactly the crowning moment of God. Or is … Continue reading Question of the Day:...
The “95 Theses” were written in 1517 by a German priest and professor of theology named Martin Luther. His revolutionary ideas served as the catalyst for the eventual breaking away from the Catholic Church and were later instrumental in forming the movement known as the Protestant Reformation. Luther wrote his radical...
In case you didn’t catch her name in the video, it’s Immaculée Ilibagiza, and she’s one of very few survivors from the 1994 Rwandan holocaust. I could write pages and pages about this woman, her courage, her faith, her resilience, but I wouldn’t do her justice. Just read her first book, Left to Tell. I …...
“One whole stick of butter, because you deserve it.” –Ree Drummond Mmmmm….. a whole stick of butter. Just one of the yummy ingredients you’ll find in a recipe for a sumptuous chocolate lava cake that Ree Drummond, AKA The Pioneer Woman, lovingly whips up for her family on her cooking show. And I agree with...
The eBible staff is made up of Baptists and Presbyterians, non-denominational, a Roman Catholic contributing writer, and this Lutheran; we worship in different churches with different practices; some of us recite a creed on Sunday mornings; some of us don’t. But here, in this place, we do have a shared creed: we believe this...
I want to tell you about a woman whose view I really admire. No, she’s not dining in a window seat at the top of Seattle’s Space Needle, perusing verdant valleys below from an Alpine peak, or sipping a cappuccino on a balcony above a balmy Italian sea port. Her situation is a far cry … Continue reading Flipping the...
Throughout this series we have been exploring the interpretive journey, but we haven’t really dealt with our final destination. When are you done interpreting the bible?
When compared to other people, we can certainly find ourselves to be good. But when compared to Jesus, that’s another story…
Where do we begin in our quest to understand the bible? The answer is deceptively simple. We begin by reading it. “How” you read your bible, as important as that is, is nonetheless completely outweighed by “if” you read your bible. There is a classic story about the 20th century evangelist D. L. Moody. It is said that a woman...
There is a silly example of inductive reasoning called the duck test. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck…then it’s probably a duck. This is a simple formula indeed. However sometimes we forget to apply the same logic to the bible.
Jesus proclaims “It is finished!” (John 19:30) – and Pastor Jennings knows that Jesus did it. He dealt with sins, and now serves as an advocate with the Father. What a blessed hope that is.
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