Certain words are very important to the Christian faith. We need to know their meaning if we are to understand the verses that use them, since language shapes our understanding of theology. But over the years misleading definitions of important Christian words have been popularized by preachers or developed from theologies and church teachings.
God is not a physical being, so how do we know what he is like? Is there an image that we can look at to see him? Yes, we find the true image of God in his Son Jesus Christ.
The gospel of Luke tells the account of an immoral woman’s devotion to Jesus and how she shows her love to him by anointing his feet with perfume. In the face of criticism from a religious Pharisee, Jesus used the event to teach a lesson on faith, love, and forgiveness.
Jesus’ parable of the talents tells the story of a rich man who entrusts his servants with large amounts of money to invest while he goes on a journey. This parable teaches us about investing in God’s kingdom and answers the question: Is it really worth sacrificing our time, energy, and resources to know God and to serve him?
When most of us think of God, we don’t normally think of beauty, we think of sovereignty, power, and majesty. We mostly associate beauty with things of the earth and the heavens. But the Bible asserts that the Lord God is exceedingly beautiful, so in what way is that true?
Jesus spoke of the kingdom of heaven, God’s rule, in many of his parables. In the parable of the workers in the vineyard he illustrates important principles of God’s kingdom, principles that the religious leaders of his time didn’t fully understand: God’s grace and mercy on the undeserving.
With so many more people reading the Bible today, understanding of Scripture has greatly increased all over the world. But people are fallible, so errors in Bible interpretation have also increased. Here are 11 of the most common interpretation errors people make while studying the Bible today.
Earthly life as a believer in Christ brings many blessings. But it also involves conflict, and our greatest conflicts are in the spiritual realm against the enemy of our souls. For these battles we need adequate weaponry, the spiritual armor of God.
In Romans chapter 12, the apostle Paul exhorts believers in Christ to offer their bodies as living sacrifices to God. What did he mean by this and how do we follow it?
Many people of ancient Israel believed that keeping the ceremonial laws of Moses was the highest expression of their love for God. But Jesus taught his disciples that to God there are more important things than ceremonies and temple sacrifices: to keep short accounts and “settle matters quickly” with both the people in our lives and with God.
