Passion 4 Him

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Is the Roman Catholic Church the one true church founded by Christ, or an apostate church that has departed from the faith of the apostles? This question had a very clear-cut answer 400 years ago when the Reformers departed from the heretical teaching of Popes. Today, however, there are many evangelicals who are not so sure. Jude warned the church to contend for the faith against apostates who attempt to steal away disciples. In verse 4 of his epistle, he wrote, "For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only sovereign and Lord." Jude identifies the apostates by certain characteristics. They are ungodly because they supplant God's sovereign authority with an authority of their own. Apostates turn the grace of God into a commodity that can be bought, bartered or merited. They pervert the gos...

Drugs, therapy, entertainment--they're all used to silence a guilty conscience.  But for the Christian, the conscience is the key to freedom.   In 1984 an Avianca Airlines jet crashed in Spain.  Investigators studying the accident made an eerie discovery.  The "black box" cockpit recorders revealed that several minutes before impact a shrill, computer-synthesized voice from the plane's automatic warning system told the crew repeatedly in English, "Pull up!  Pull up!"   The pilot, evidently thinking the system was malfunctioning, snapped, "Shut up, Gringo!" and switched the system off.  Minutes later the plane plowed into the side of a mountain.  Everyone on board died.   When I saw that tragic story on the news shortly after it happened, it st...

Metaphor: Rescue - Jesus promises to rescue and keep us safe forever (Deut. 31:6; Heb. 13:5) Positive : Saved - Jesus came to save the world : " For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." (John 3:17) Saves us from our sins : (Ephesians 2:1-9) Saves us from God's just wrath : " Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!" (Romans 5:9) Saves us from death : "Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." (Heb. 2:14-15) Whoever believes in Jesus will not perish : "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life....

( BY KEN HAM, DR. CARL WIELAND & DR. DON BATTEN )       Many people today are confused about the origin of the so-called "races" of people on the Earth. But the Bible and accepted scientific principles provide easy-to-understand answers. They may challenge your entire thinking on this important topic.       In the 1800s, before Darwinian evolution was popularized, most people, when talking about "races," were referring to such groups as the "English race," "Irish race," and so on. However, this all changed when Charles Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.       Darwinian evolution was (and still is) inherently a racist philosophy, teaching that different groups or "races" of people evolved at different times and rates, so some groups are more like their ape-like...

Jesus' exposition of the law is a devastating blow against the lie that image is everything. Our Lord taught repeatedly that sin bottled up on the inside, concealed from everyone else's view, carries the very same guilt as sin that manifests itself in the worst forms of ungodly behavior. Those who hate others are as guilty as those who act out their hatred; and those who indulge in private lusts are as culpable as wanton adulterers ( Matt. 5:21-30 ). So Christians are not to think of secret sins as somehow less serious and more respectable than the sins everyone sees. Here are three reasons secret sin is especially abhorrent: 1. Because God sees the heart. Scripture tells us "God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart" ( 1 Sam. 16:7 ). No sin--not even a whispered curse or a fleeting evil thought--is hidden from the view of God. In fact, if we realized that God himself is the only audience for suc...

By Justin Peters Heaven.  The Bible describes Heaven as a place of surpassing beauty where there is no pain, no sorrow, no sickness, no disease, no death.  It is where the triune God resides in all of His glory.   For those of us who are saved, the redeemed of God through Christ, it is our eternal home.  Though none of us look forward to the process of dying, as Christians we enthusiastically answer the question asked by Job, "If a man dies, will he live again?" [i] with a resounding " yes ."   We look forward to being completely and eternally free of fallen bodies living in a fallen world.  But for some people, it seems that Heaven (and occasionally Hell) can't wait. Though Near Death Experiences (NDEs) [ii]   have been reported for hundreds and even thousands of years, the last several decades have seen an explosion of people come forward claiming that they have seen the other side, both Heaven and Hell.  Many of these ...