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• How to Distinguish 3 TYPES OF TRIALS — SITs, MITs and DITs

  When you experience an unexpected trial of some sort, the first thing you need to do is determine if the assault is a Self-Inflicted Trial (SIT), a Discipline-Intended Trial (DIT) or a Maturity-Intended Trial (MIT). Here’s an explanation of each: SITs are obvious: they’re the result of one’s own folly, like being injured due to reckless driving and the resulting […]

• Should Believers Participate in FASTING?

  Fasting is a spiritual discipline in which the individual goes without food for a period of time to, ideally, humble themselves and focus on spiritual things. It is denying the needs of the outer man to attend to the needs of the inner man. The Messiah insinuated that the Church would fast after he was […]

• How You Can KNOW You Are Saved

  For anyone struggling with assurance of salvation, here are a few relevant passages from God’s Word that will help: “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.” John 3:16 “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, […]

• HEBREWS / ISRAELITES / JEWS — Why Did God Choose Them?

  The LORD chose Abraham because he was an extraordinary man of faith (Romans 4:11). Abraham originally hailed from Ur of the Chaldeans, a city of moon worshippers in the lower Mesopotamian region near the mouth of the Euphrates River (Genesis 11:28), not far from modern-day Baghdad. This is today southeastern Iraq, which is the center of what […]

• Insights for Today From the Book of RUTH

  The short book of Ruth details the account of Naomi’s family moving from Bethlehem in famine-stricken Israel to Moab, which was a 7-10 day trip to the Southeast by foot (which you can get a visual of here). The two sons married Moabite women but, unfortunately, Naomi’s husband and sons soon died and thus Naomi […]

• Is the LORD a “JEALOUS GOD”?

  The Bible plainly describes the LORD as a jealous God: 4“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the […]

• Was Jesus White, Black or Yellow When He Was on Earth?

  Some depictions of the Messiah are too Caucasian-like, such as blue-eyed Jeffrey Hunter playing the role in the 1961 film King of Kings. You’ll also come across sincere believers claiming that Jesus was black in the sub-Saharan sense when he was on Earth. I’m sure there are others who insist he was Far East Asian. […]

• What Is a “SAINT” According to the Bible?

  A ‘saint’ in the biblical sense does not refer to a deceased Catholic of heroic faith canonized by officials of the Roman sect, but simply to God’s people — whether Old Testament or New Testament — assuming they are set apart through dedication and service to the LORD. The Hebrew Word for ‘Saint’ In the […]

• Why Wasn’t God Pleased With CAIN’S OFFERING?

    Let’s read the passage in question: Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. 4And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his […]

• LEGALISM Creates Sheeple; CHRISTIANITY Creates Unique People

  Because religious legalism is obsessed with outward adherence to the letter of the law and “the letter kills” (2 Corinthians 3:6), it typically creates either automaton-like sheeple or prune-faced authoritarians; it can’t produce unique people who are freed-up and full of the life and love of the LORD. Consider some of the mighty men and […]