Christ In Scripture
Spreading the fame of Christ among those who don’t know him and making him more honored and adored among those who do.
KNOWING CHRIST
attributes & incarnation
SALVATION IN CHRIST
the gospel
LEARNING FROM CHRIST
understanding the Bible
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.
Most of us know what patience is, even though we might not have much of it ourselves. We all really appreciate it when someone is patient with us. But for some reason we have a hard time remembering to be patient with others. Who is someone we can hold up as the supreme example of patience? Our Creator of course.
To some people, the teachings of Jesus and those of the apostle Paul don’t always agree. Critics of the Bible and of the Christian faith like to point out what they see as glaring differences. Even solid believers are known to gravitate toward the teachings of either Jesus or Paul. But are Jesus and Paul really at odds? Is there a conflict between the two?
The apostle Paul’s sermon to the Athenians stands out as one of the great sermons in Scripture. Once a Pharisee, Paul now found himself preaching about the Savior to arrogant philosophers, idolaters, and the sexually immoral. These were people, who in his earlier life, he would have despised. But now he boldly reached out to them with the love and mercy of God.
The gospel is the good news to the condemned and sinful. Those who believe it are acquitted of their guilt before God and set free! But how can God set free those who are clearly guilty of sin? There must be a fair and just basis for the acquittal. We learn the answer from the gospel story itself—that Jesus Christ was our substitute.
Jesus once told a parable about two men who were at the temple praying. At the end of his story, one man went away justified, while the other did not. What does it mean to be justified by God? Though the meaning is profound, it's actually quite understandable: getting right with God.
Many people wonder: Is God kind and compassionate, or angry and accusing? We all would like to think he is loving because we hear that he is. But does he really love us, or is this just an advertisement to get people to join a religion or a church? How do we really know? We know by looking at Jesus Christ, the One who is God in the flesh, and by Christ's compassion for all he met.
Teachings and Resources for Those Seeking God
“Those who come to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him.” …(Hebrews 11:6)