Topical Studies
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Breaking Free From Worry by Knowing Jesus
Are you a person who is gripped by worry today? Before you can know the peace of God, you need to have peace with God. But this is only possible through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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God Our Mother?
Does it really make a difference in our lives if we think of God as mother rather than father? Or is it just an issue of semantics?
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Protecting Your Pastor's Marital Fidelity
How can the church walk alongside its pastor to help him keep his marriage vows with joy?
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Beyond Sunday: Ending the Search for Peace
Faith in God's word, believing God, and laying hold on His power in resurrection is faith that this has lifted us out of the whole effect of our sins.
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Does the Old Testament Affirm Capital Punishment? Would Jesus?
This may strike those who have actually read the Bible as a bit ludicrous. But many, in fact, do not know what it says.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity
The term "Trinity" is not a Biblical term, but it lies in Scripture in solution. When it is crystallized from its solvent, it does not cease to be Scriptural, but only comes into clearer view.
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Beyond Sunday: The Requirement of Justice - And Love
Just? Surely then he will punish; no, for this very reason he will pardon. -
Limit Your Liability, Lose Your Freedom
Why would anyone who had found freedom in Christ want to turn back to the law? Why would anyone let themselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery? Why would anyone want to be under the law?
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The Witness of Scripture: Work of Men, or Word of God?
The Bible is the account of God’s activity in and beyond time. But is it a trustworthy account? To answer that we need to establish three things...
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Jesus: Israel's Messiah
Matthew was a Jew who wrote his gospel primarily for Jews. Unless you grasp that, you will fail to understand the depth of its message.
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A Welcome to Honest Living
The Bible is honest about life in this fallen world. In its refusal to minimize, diminish, or deny harsh realities, the Bible welcomes you to be honest as well.
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The Early Church Had Conflict?
Looking at the state of Christianity in the world today with all its various camps and divisions, it’s tempting to idealize the early church as a perfect time of peace and harmony. But then the book of James disrupts that rose-colored view.
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How to Trace the Fire of the Holy Spirit
Journal to track your spiritual journey. It is a means to "trace the fire of the Holy Spirit" in your life and the life of your church.
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Beyond Sunday: Waiting for the Day
The apostle applies this difference of position – namely, that we belong to the day, and that it cannot therefore come upon us as a thief – to the character and walk of the Christian.
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"Soul" Searching in Deuteronomy 6:5: A Hebrew Word Study without Hebrew
How well does the English translation "soul" in this verse convey the meaning of the underlying Hebrew word?
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The Holy Spirit and Ethics
One of the Holy Spirit’s roles here on earth is to lead us in truth. Truth enables us to make right ethical choices, regardless of how difficult some of the choices may be.
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How to Read the Bible Theologically
J.I. Packer - To read the Bible "theologically" means to read the Bible "with a focus on God."
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Nine Ways to Know That the Gospel of Christ Is True
A compelling list shared by John Piper explaining how we can be sure Jesus was who He claimed to be.
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Are You Concerned About Your Future?
Beloved, do you know that what concerns you is of the utmost concern to God? If you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, every need, every trial, every temptation that touches you, touches God, because you are part of His Son.
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Beyond Sunday: Two-Step Growth
The apostle prays that their knowledge might issue in practice – for knowledge, without practice, is of no avail.
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