Articles
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The Fear of the Lord is Clean
It can be very difficult to properly describe feelings and emotions, and fear often fits under that category. A dictionary will explain the word fear similar to this: a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, or pain. Fear is certainly that feeling that everyone has experienced at times in this world, and when it
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How Does God Reveal His Identity?
Understanding God’s true identity is so important in a world that constantly speaks false things about God and paints a negative image of Him and His works. We can easily become swept away into various theories about God if we aren’t paying attention to what God has revealed about Himself. In Matthew 16:13-17, when Jesus
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Bible Reading VS. Bible Study
Part 1 of the Article Series: How to Study the Bible I think many people will say that the difference between bible reading and study is the time involved. But this is inaccurate, for neither one must take longer than the other. The difference is not in time but in purpose. Bible reading takes you
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How to Study a Book of the Bible
Part 2 of the Article Series: How to Study the Bible When it comes to bible study, there are topical studies and expository/textual studies such as a book, chapter, or verse studies. Today we will consider a method of studying a book of the bible. There is no one right method of study, but
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How to Study a Chapter
Part 3 of the Article Series: How to Study the Bible In the last article, we considered a simple and effective method for studying a whole book of the bible. The goal was to gain an understanding of the overall message and purpose of the book, the big picture. But if we want a
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How to Study A Verse
Part 4 of the Article Series: How to Study the Bible In this article, we will consider simple methods for digging deeper into a verse of the bible. This concept of bible study allows us to spend a study period meditating solely on a single verse that we’ve selected. The selection of the verse may
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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
The name of this tree is quite a mouthful, but this tree’s name is largely all the details we have concerning it. Now, many artful depictions of this tree have been made through the centuries, and it is usually portrayed as some mutant apple tree, but it was not an apple tree, it was its
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The Day the Church was Established
Saying that the church began on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 is easy to say, but a little challenging to prove. Likewise, saying that the church began before Pentecost, whether at the resurrection of Christ or the ascension of Christ, is also very difficult to prove. Of course, there are other opinions out
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Misconceptions of David and Goliath
The account of David and Goliath has been told and retold countless times; it stands to reason that certain details have been told that are not actually in the bible. Especially with an account that has been slimmed down for children’s classes and has been subject to numerous Hollywood versions and cartoons, we can expect
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Why God Wrested with Jacob
What does Jacob wrestling with the Lord symbolize and why doesn’t God win? The account of Jacob wrestling with God is found in Genesis 32, where Jacob is soon to meet up with Esau, his brother whom he had taken the birthright from. Esau had once intended to kill Jacob and Jacob had fled his