Are you exhibiting the qualities of a holy, royal priest of God? Or do you take your priestly responsibilities lightly? God indicted the Israelites through the prophet Malachi over the same issue. I would like to give you a little bit of …
Today we live in a very technological, industrialized world. We make our homes in crowded cities of hundreds of thousands of people. We drive highly sophisticated cars controlled by complicated computer components. We buy our food in …
Planet Earth currently sustains nearly eight billion people, each of which has different hopes, desires, dreams, and thoughts. Each one reasons that he or she can determine right from wrong. Every day, humans collectively process …
(24) O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? (25) I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
We all know the titanic struggle Paul describes in Romans 7, where he talks about wanting to do what is right yet doing what is wrong instead. He cries out, "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (verse …
Because other Christian denominations glorify Mary, Jesus’ mother, the church of God has traditionally shied away from extolling her for fear of seeming to do the same. Of course, the gospels straightforwardly present her as a young woman whom God called on to bear His Son, calling her “highly favored” and “blessed . . . among women” for this high honor. Additionally, the gospel writers describe her as a thoughtful, devout woman with many excellent characteristics that Christians should desire to emulate. In Part One, we covered two lessons we can learn from the Mary of Scripture. First, …
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