by Gayle Jackson | Apr 24, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
The Bible, the Word of God is the key to all we believe. To waffle in your thinking on the accuracy and authority of the Word, is to disrupt your relationship and walk with God. Your commitment to the Word is a key to your walk with Christ. Jos 1:8 “This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely”. 1Pe 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and abiding forever. Instead of a treatise on The Word, let me ask these questions: 1. Have you ever read/studied the history of the bible and how it came about? If not, when are you going to? 2. Do you know the history of the canonization? 3. Do you believe in a closed or open cannon? 4. Do you believe the bible is inerrant? 5. If you don’t a. What parts are errant to you? b. Can you trust Jesus history and teachings, i.e. His use of Jonah as a historical character? c. If you don’t embrace inerrancy are you declaring your opinion as more accurate than God’s? d. Since Jesus quoted the bible often, what are we to conclude? 6. Do you have problems of squaring the bible with the archeologist? 7. Can you accept creation account? 8. Are scripture teachings, like the following, cultural or...
by Walt Henrichsen | Apr 10, 2017 | Articles, Mentors Corner
“Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased.” Luke 2:14 You recall that these are the words the angels announced to the shepherds the night Jesus was born. When God sent His Son into the world, for the first time since the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, people had reason to be at peace. As the Apostle Paul taught, “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”Romans 5:6 Now God could take sinners to heaven without violating His justice and making heaven dirty. All people acknowledge that the presence of peace is an important component in having a sense of wellbeing. The absence of peace results in anxiety, uncertainty, and insecurity, which in turn produces stress and ill health. Your peace is threatened by such things as fear of the unknown, unjust acts, pain, and broken relationships. The world offers a variety of solutions that will ostensibly bring you peace, but ultimately you will only find it in God. Three times in the opening of Paul’s pastoral epistles he says, “Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.” Peace is the product of God’s grace and mercy; you can find it nowhere else. You are wise if you seek it only in your relationship with Christ. For more articles by Walt...
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