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Open Up Your Christmas Gift and Enjoy It

God loves you and me.  This is a deep and abiding truth of Christmas.  Christmas is God’s word to all of us that God has not, and will never give up on us.

 

Christmas is God coming to be with us as one of us  as both man and God.

 

Christmas is God saying to us: “There is a way out and I know the way. I sent Jesus…

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Added by Colby on December 11, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Gospel Subversion

Rise up, be controversial, and take a stand for the Gospel of Jesus Christ!



The Gospel of Jesus Christ is intended to stir things up. It is intended to rise up. It is intended to challenge and cause each of us to examine ourselves and allow God to work in our lives and take us to places that will allow us to answer the call to “love and serve one…
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Added by Colby on September 19, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

The World's Major Religions: Many Paths to God?

Are the world's major religions complementary?



Are they alternative paths to the same place?



Do they each provide a part of the ultimate truth, which is only understood when they are all blended together, providing a holistic perspective on the one ultimate…

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Added by Colby on September 17, 2012 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Questioning the Origin and Authority of the Bible

The biggest division within and the greatest challenge facing Christianity today centers on how we view the Bible's origin and authority.

 

Viewed simply, Christians fall into two camps.  Modernists / Liberals and Fundamentalists / Conservatives.  This, in turn, frames how each of us interprets and applies Scriptural passages relating to such controversial and divisive issues as…

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Added by Colby on September 17, 2012 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Two Things True: God's Judgment and Grace

We often experience the fact that more than one thing is true at the same time. Often we know conflicting things, both true and yet in tension.

 

So it is that we are challenged to our own settlement of two big and seemingly conflicting truths about the properties of our relationship with God. One is named judgment and the other is called grace. These two simple words have challenged us over…

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Added by Colby on September 16, 2012 at 10:34am — No Comments

America "under God:" A Christian Nation?

As Christians, we believe that we live "under God" as individuals as well as collectively in our communities, regions and nations.  We acknowledge that we live by God's grace and under his judgment.  Regardless of where we live in the world--be it the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, China, Nigeria, Libya or India--we live "under God" whether or not we acknowledge it.

 

As Christians, although we live in the…

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Added by Colby on September 14, 2012 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Are You a Church Member, Hopper or Shopper?

What are your thoughts on "church hopping" and "church shopping?"

 A 2007 survey of over 35,000 Americans by the Pew Forum found that 4 out of 5 self-identify as…

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Added by Colby on August 21, 2012 at 1:26pm — No Comments

The Disappearing, Shrinking Church in America

Background information and sources/footnotes for the Forum discussion topic, which you comment on here:

http://www.allaboutgod.net/forum/topics/the-disappearing-shrinking-church-in-america-why

 

Why the dramatic and continuing decline of the so-called "mainline" Protestant Churches in America over the past half century?…

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Added by Colby on August 11, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Talking to the Devil: Diabolical Conversations

The clarity of God's word can banish the ambiguity that we find in all the

suggestions of the devil and in all the temptations that beset us.

When tempted, we must not fall for the alluring words of the tempter,

but keep ourselves firmly rooted in the word of God.
 
 
After 40 days and 40 nights of fasting, the devil tempts Jesus…
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Added by Colby on August 4, 2012 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

Perversions of Grace: Cheap Grace and Legalism

God's written Word is clear about salvation: "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast," says the Apostle Paul (Ephesians 2:8-9).  "For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart…

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Added by Colby on August 3, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

Blogs I'm Reading Today: 08/02/2012

Finding Truth and Seeking Understanding.  Keys to Effective Conversation

in a Christian Context. 

What Makes a Discussion "Real?" "Real" discussion relies on three key virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love. …

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Added by Colby on August 2, 2012 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

God is ONE, yet GOD is three? The Trinity Exposed.

God is one, yet God is three?

 

The Trinity refers to the tri-unity that is God.  God is one, yet God is three persons.  God is:

  1. the creator or Father,
  2. the redeemer,…
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Added by Colby on July 23, 2012 at 9:30am — 3 Comments

A Whole Bible & a Whole Christian: Tim Challies

by Tim Challies

Today the majority of those who read this site will be heading to church to hear a pastor preach the Word of God. A while back I jotted down several quotes about the Bible and thought I’d share them today. Hopefully many of you can read them before hearing the Word preached today. Each of these is worth reflecting on:…

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Added by Colby on July 18, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Blogs I'm Reading Today: 07/16/2012

LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY, CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANITY, AND CAUGHT-IN-BETWEEN

[Rachel Held Evans]

  • “Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?” – Diana Butler Bass. How can we move…
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Added by Colby on July 16, 2012 at 5:30pm — No Comments

The End Is Near! Inquiring Minds Want to Know!

The "end is near!"  Christians are full of questions about the future, and inquiring minds want to know.

 

We see many signs and events in the world today that are deeply distressing, which some who are "in the know" associate with the imminent fulfillment of Biblical end-times prophecy.  Are we literally living in the last…

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Added by Colby on July 15, 2012 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Do Born-Again Christians Continue to Struggle with Sin?

In the First Chapter of First John, the apostle writes that if we claim to be without sin we are deceiving ourselves.   I get that.  It makes sense to me.

Then come the difficult passages in the 3rd and 5th Chapters where John states that "children of God" do NOT "keep on sinning."  He does not qualify…

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Added by Colby on July 14, 2012 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

GOD is Searching for YOU

Throughout history much has been written about man’s search to know if there is a God and, if so, to know what he is like. 

We are exhorted by the Scripture to seek and search for God.  The Psalmist says, “Search for the LORD and for his strength; continually seek him” (…

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Added by Colby on July 13, 2012 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

I am the Way, the Truth and the Life: What did Jesus Mean?

What did Jesus mean?  Who was he speaking to?  Context is critically important when reading passages of Scripture to understand their meaning.

 

Take the phrase "I'm sorry," for example. …

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Added by Colby on June 30, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

How Trustworthy is the Bible?

How reliable and trustworthy are the Scriptures? Are they the written word of God?

 

  • Many regard the Bible as a masterpiece of literature, the greatest book ever written, and a fascinating history of the Jews and early Christians.  But they hesitate to embrace the claim--or deny it outright--that the Bible is authoritative as God's written word.  In their minds, the…
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Added by Colby on June 28, 2012 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Born Again: Going Deeper Than The Cliché

Are you “born again?”
 …
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Added by Colby on June 28, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

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