"Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."
Source: Bible Journey, Study 5: Acts & Paul’s Epistles, Course 4: 1 & 2 Corinthians, Lesson 5: Author & Audience, In | A Pre-Pauline Baptismal Formula [Bonus] In 1 Corinthians, we find a statement associated with baptism that surfaces in a similar form in two other letters: For we were all baptized by one Spirit …
No one should be an accidental evangelical—or a merely cultural one. Unfortunately, few evangelicals can actually articulate the gospel. They can lead people to Christ and help them pray the sinner’s prayer, but when it comes to setting forth just how Jesus saves, most of us flounder. Last year, two evangelical theologians had a bright …
Baptism has long been a point of conflict and even division among Christians. Almost every denomination has its own twist on baptism. I realized this when I attempted to join the only English-speaking Baptist church in the European city where I studied theology. I came as a card-carrying, ordained Baptist—with my letter of recommendation from …
Into the World “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” (1 Timothy 1:15) On fourteen different occasions, the Bible says that Jesus came “into the world.” He wasn’t simply born. He left heaven and came into the world. The Lord Himself said, “I came forth from the Father and have come into the …
God’s kindness is intended to lead us to repentance. 4 Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, restraint, and patience, not recognizing[Or patience, because you do not recognize] that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? Romans 2:4 CSB What Jesus made us when we are saved: To him who loves us and has set us free[g] from our …
God loves you! “For God so loved the world that He gave His onlybegotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shouldnot perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16).God has a wonderful plan for your life!“I have come that they may have life, and that theymay have it more abundantly.” John 10:10b Because of our sin, …
Paul’s important expression “in Christ” and its equivalent (“in Him”) appears more often in Ephesians (35 times) than in any other New Testament book. The “in Christ” relationship that is available to every believer is rich and multifaceted: we have received every spiritual blessing in Christ (1:3), we were chosen in Christ (1:4, 11), we …
Jesus Baptizing 4:1When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judea and went again to Galilee. John 4:1-3 22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent time with them and baptized. John …
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