Derek Elkins Writes“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water..” Psalms 63:1 Do you thirst for God like a man thirsts for water in a dry and weary land? Do you hunger for […]
“For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.” Romans 4:3 It all boils down to faith. That’s our part in the whole salvation thing. Salvation is a free gift that we do not have to pay for at all. We could have done no job […]
“They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves.” Psalms 106:39 Jesus said that it wasn’t what went into a man that defiled him, but what came out of that man. In other words, our actions are what define our sinful ways. We defile ourselves by what we do. We […]
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.” 1 Corinthians 15:17 Our faith rests on one single point: Christ has conquered death. Without that point being clearly resolved, we would have absolutely no hope for eternal life. That’s why theology is important. That’s why apologetics […]
Are New Testament believers held to the same moral standard as the one bestowed by the Mosaic Law? After all, in Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus states that He did not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it, indicating that the moral law of the Ten commandments would not pass away with the advent of […]