Does Jesus’ life fulfill Messianic Prophecies? The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim, and the work of late Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, in Science Speaks, illustrate that the chance of one person fulfilling these prophecies is 1 in 10^157 (10 with 157 zeros behind it). This...Read More
Key Passages Read Through Key Passages In your Bible Reading Hebrew Writings (Old Testament)__1 Genesis 1:1–3:19 The Creation and Fall of Humanity__2 Genesis 12, 28:10–15; 32:22–28 God Calls A People His Own__3 Genesis 37, 39-46 The Story of Joseph__4 Exodus 1-6 The Call of Moses__5 Exodus 7-14 Moses and Pharaoh__6 Exodus 19-20:21 The 10 Commandments__7...Read More
BIG IDEA God created us with purpose; finding purpose is essential to living a fulfilling life. THOUGHTS God has created us all with purpose. As you’ll see in the “Humanity” teaching in the theology section, God created us in His image to reflect Him in our world (Gen. 1:26–28). This develops into four general applications...Read More
The Bible is clear about how human history will transition into a new reality. Yet, scholars often disagree about the order the major events. There are three major perspectives: premillennialism, postmillennialism, and amillennialism. Each have several variations within them and yet each perspective recognizes the following major events in different ways. Tribulation We will experience...Read More
Q. Why does God allow evil in the world? Why does God allow people to hurt each other? A. Because He is love. We love the idea that God is love – we hate the idea that God is love. Here’s why. If I locked up my kids in a padded room – you would think...Read More
One Sabbath day as Jesus was walking through some grainfields, his disciples began breaking off heads of grain to eat. But the Pharisees said to Jesus, “Look, why are they breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath?” Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you ever read in the Scriptures what David did when he and...Read More
As believers, our mind is moving to a place of being able to think as God thinks, of seeing and understanding the truth, and of being able to walk in the wisdom and understanding of God. Our mind (physical brain) receives and processes information from the outside world and our past experience – then helps...Read More
The Bible contains 66 books – 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament. The Bible is divided into two parts, the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and Christian Writings (New Testament). The Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) were written by over thirty authors over a span of 1400 years in Hebrew...Read More
Allow me to share with you a biblical basis for fasting and prayer and help to equip you with practical tools (from my experience and the experience of others) as you prepare to walk in one of the most powerful spiritual disciplines found in the word of God.Read More