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  Personal evangelism is sharing the message of Jesus Christ with others. It is showing and telling  with both word and deed who Jesus is and how it's possible to have a relationship with Him. Think of evangelism in light of life's journeys. Personal evangelism is simply the privilege of entering into the spiritual journey of another person, discovering how God is at work, and the role that we can play. It sounds so simple in theory. Why do so many of us find it hard?  If you are like most motivated believers, you genuinely desire to share your faith, but the very thought of it both excites and terrifies you. Why? The desire to share one’s faith is a natural overflow of one’s relationship with Christ. A person in love rarely stops thinking and talking about the object of their affection. A person who has genuinely experienced Jesus Christ expresses a similar compulsion (Acts 4:20). Sadly, personal evangelism is not just a process of explaining truth until another person u...

  The Missing Link-Part 2 Many couples are fond of using Mr A's formula to solve their own marital problems and when it doesn't work out the devil politely suggest to them to work out of that marriage because it's not working. With this, we keep hindering the plan of God for us in our marriage. I can say this with all assurance that Mr A formula for marriage can't solve Mr B marital problems, everyone have to find the missing link and fixed it up.  However, this doesn't mean we have to ignore advice from people but when it comes to applying it you need to look inward if it will serve as the missing link in your marriage. What's this missing link all about? Do I have to start looking for it once I have any issue in my marriage? The answer is NO! God is the all-knowing, he knew that there will be challenges and misunderstandings in marriage so he already provided the solution even before the problem but this is where most people get it wrong, we ignore this soluti...

  Imagine bringing in an electrician into your house to help you with the electricity and after several hours of working you tried to put on the light and then boom! It's not working... Or imagine yourself being a computer programmer, you write codes to develop software and website and after a very long hour of writing thousands of codes and several minutes of checking for mistakes just to be sure it's ok, you tried it and it's still not giving you what you want.... Then what's the way out? Run to google or ask other professionals for assistance? Well in marriage this isn't applicable. Since inception, no one as a perfect formula for a successful marriage.  The concept of marriage is unique and mysterious, God Himself instituted it and Him alone has what it takes to solve every marital dilemmas.  However, in our present generation, we can see all around the numerous crisis rocking different families and the big question is where did we or they all get it wrong? Ther...

  Couple of time we come across some set of people who walks to us and ask for a minute with you and you're like do I know you? Some even go to the point of telling you that Jesus loves you (as if you're not aware of that). Some go to the extent of telling you they have a gift for you and you are like wow! What is it and boom they tell you it's Jesus they have for you... Many times as well we tend to see some acrobatics display like holding a banner for hours under the sun, some climbing a pole, acting of drama and many more and you're like why are "these guys so jobless" like seriously... They should be doing something reasonable and not making a fool of themselves around the streets. That's a 'normal' man's thinking right? NO! they are not jobless. As a matter of fact they are representing the biggest brand in heaven and on earth.  The truth is, many of us are also given this same 'employment' but we choose to ignore. Rather, we prefe...

The concept of God’s “grace” is thrilling beyond words. It shines its brightest, however, against the seemingly dark backdrop of another aspect of our Creator’s nature — that of sacred wrath . The Wrath of God The most common Greek word for “wrath” is orge . The term occurs 36 times in the New Testament ( Rom. 1:18; 2:5). Another expression denoting “wrath” is thymos (18 times; Rev. 16:19; 19:15). Most scholars make some distinction between the terms. Some suggest that thymos is “boiling” anger, whereas orge reflects an “abiding and settled” state of mind. Perhaps the two terms in concert denote the intense and sustained disposition of God towards evil and those who abandon themselves to it. But wrath, as used of God, does not suggest an impulsive, emotional reaction, as the term frequently does with humans. Rather, divine wrath is the reflection of a deliberate and measured reaction of a perfectly holy Being toward sin — a response that is entirely consistent with the rig...

V . Which Translation Is Best? In this essay we've been looking at the differences in Bible translations. We have noted that the Greek text behind the King James NT is different from the Greek text behind most modern translations. We have seen that the discovery of the papyri at the turn of the century has shed much light on the meaning of biblical words. And we have found that Bible translations, by-in-large, are either word-for-word or phrase-for-phrase translations and that there are pros and cons with each of these. Today, we want to look briefly at five or six popular translations and discuss their values. But before we look at these translations, I'd like to make three general comments. First, you might think there is no hope of ever knowing what the Word of God really says. There are so many translations that read so differently! How can anyone who does not know Greek or Hebrew really know what the Bible says? I am personally convinced that the Holy Spirit is so...

I. Why So Many Versions? "Breaking up is hard to do," as the song goes. Ma Bell did it--creating a glut of long distance companies almost as numerous as brands of deodorant. The Bible did it, too. Before the year 1881 you could read any version you wanted--as long as it was the King James Version. But since 1881, scores of new translations have been printed. How did the King James get dethroned? Which translation is best today? Are any of the modern translations really faithful to the original? These are some of the questions we'll be looking at in this essay. But initially, we'd just like to get a bird’s eye view. We simply want an answer to the question, "Why are there so many versions of the Bible?" There are three basic influences which have given birth to a multitude of translations. First, in 1881 two British scholars published a Greek New Testament which was based on the most ancient manuscripts then available. This text, by Brook Foss We...

What do you think of when you hear the word “pure”? I immediately think about sexual purity. No doubt, it is vital that we talk about and practice sexual purity in our current cultural climate. Or perhaps, instead of thinking about sexual purity, you think about moral purity: that when the Bible speaks about purity, what it is really speaking about is keeping ourselves from sin—so being pure means being without sin. This is often the case in the Bible. In fact, there are many instances in which the New Testament points to purity as an issue of being free from the sin (Philippians 1:10, 4:8; 1 Peter 3:2). However, thinking of purity solely in these ways misses the Bible’s underlying teaching about what purity is. As we look at how purity is described in the Bible, we see that it is speaking of something that is far deeper and more universal. Purity is not merely an issue of lust that struggling men and women need to be concerned about. It is an issue that it is at the very hea...

The true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus who lived in Israel 2000 years ago and who died on the cross for our sins (1 Corinthians 15 1-4;  1 Peter 2:24 ). More specifically, when we use the word "meaning," we're talking about the  purpose  of his birth that Christmas is supposed to celebrate.  His purpose was to enter into the world and become one of us, that he might deliver us from our sins. Jesus is not just any man. He is God in flesh ( John 1:1 ,  14 ;  Colossians 2:9 ).   He is the second person of the  Trinity  who, by being born of the Virgin Mary, was made under the law ( Galatians 4:4 ) and subject to the same temptations and limitations that we are. Christmas is the celebration of the historical event of where God entered into our world so that he might display the perfection and holiness of God and that through his work of living perfectly and also dying on the cross for our sins, that all w...

We are in that special season once again, a season of joy, of peace, of great tidings. A season when we celebrate the birth of Christ the King, the redeemer of mankind! Jesus is the reason for the season. What does Christmas mean to you and me? I will like to draw reference from the views of two writers. The first is J. C Penney who wrote, ‘Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.’ Next is the thought provoking words of George F. McDougall ‘Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God. The above comments say it all. Christmas is not all about merry making. We must also spare time to reflect on the essence of the period which is the love of ...

Christ is Superior Jesus Christ was unique in every way. From his complete deity to his perfect humanity; from his miraculous conception to his supernatural ascension; from his impeccable character to his incomparable teaching—Jesus stands above all other religious or moral teachers. Christ Is Superior to Moses .  As a Jew himself, Jesus had no argument with Moses, the prophet who brought the Jewish law and led the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage to freedom as an independent nation. Moses and Jesus were prophets of the same God, and Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law (found in the writings of Moses) but to fulfill it ( Matthew 5:17 ). Jesus implies that Moses’ words are God’s words (compare  Matthew 19:4–5  with  Genesis 2:24 ). However, in many respects, we find that Jesus is superior to Moses. Christ is a superior prophet to Moses . In  Deuteronomy 18:15–19 , Moses predicted that God would raise up a Jewish Prophet with a speci...