Results for: "Christian Beliefs"

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, Christian Living, Christian Worldview, Concepts of God, Default Category

Listen One’s beliefs necessarily determine one’s behavior. Benjamin Franklin clearly understood this fact when he told Thomas Paine that atheism and agnosticism leads only to social anarchy: “If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it.”[1] Paine, who consulted Franklin concerning political matters, had requested Franklin to review his...Read more... Read more...

Christian Beliefs

Listen To appreciate any discipline beyond a superficial level, a working knowledge of that discipline’s terms and concepts is necessary. This fact is no less true of the discipline or study of Christian theology. While it is true that the terminology associated with Christian theology is ever developing, it is also true that many terms are foundational and, therefore, not as...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Living, The Bible

Listen In the early Christian Church, believers were forced to decide what books of Scripture they would be willing to die. If a book was not regarded as authoritative, conscience did not forbid them to surrender it to pagan authorities, but if a work was regarded as inspired and evidenced Divine authority, Christians were far less likely to part with it. Yet this was only one of the...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Living, December Articles, Lives of the Apostles

Listen December 27 St. John Remembered The life and ministry of the Apostle John, son of Zebedee, is observed annually on December 27 by Christians in the West. St. John was distinguished as a prophet, an apostle, and an evangelist. He is known as the beloved disciple or “the disciple whom Jesus loved,” and was the younger brother of James the Great. The two brothers, and...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Beliefs, Christian Calendar, Christian Living, Christian Morality, December, December Articles, Devotional Literature

Listen A number of years ago, Gap brand stores – Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic–decided not to advertise their end-of-year sales with the term “Christmas.” Instead they chose the more generic term “holiday” so as not to offend those of non-Christian faiths, or atheists in general. But Gap is not alone in this decision. Last Christmas other companies also took a similar course...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, Christian Living, Experience, Practice & Life, Salvation & Grace

Listen In a pluralistic American society, it has become politically incorrect to suggest that any one religion can make any claim to absolute truth. Historic Christianity has made such a claim to absolute truth. Just as a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill bears resemblance to the genuine twenty-dollar bill, so all other world religions and cults bear some resemblance to the genuine faith...Read more... Read more...