The first fruit listed among the fruit of the Spirit is the fruit of love. This beautiful fruit begins to mature when Christ enters a person’s life. Romans 5:5 states: “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” […]
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In our last post examining the Letter to the Hebrews, we saw how real the supernatural is. As Hamlet told an old college buddy, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Yet even those spiritual beings and realities that our eyes haven’t (or can’t) see are
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I clearly remember being down at what used to be Tom and Lib Phillip’s field (now Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and I was chatting in the outfield during batting practice with one of my non-Christian teammates about God. As
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(The reflections below were published in the Hickory Daily Record June 4, 2011 and also at http://corinthpastorbob.com/2011/06/loving-two-brides/ on the same date.) The entry is used here with permission from Rev. Dr. Bob Thompson of Corinth Reformed Church in Hickory, NC. Bob has posted on Red Door’s Blog before. Check out his last entry “When You
According to many young-earth creationists (YEC), non-Christian scientists falsely interpret Nature, and they do so on-purpose. This is because they have their own, unbelieving worldview, and they also are trying to make people not believe in God. Now of course, there are some scientists who “have an ax to grind” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss,
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Another quality exhibited by the follower of the Lord is that of obedience, i.e. observing or keeping the commands of the Lord. Reading through this list of attributes that we’ve been studying for a few months now in Deuteronomy 10:12-13, it is difficult to imagine that even in this Old Testament context (as the “next” generation
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