Results for: "Christian Beliefs"

American Christianity, Calendar Articles, Default Category, The Bible

Listen Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer, politician, and philanthropist who at one point in his political career rose to the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Like most who lived during the Founding Era of the United States, Winthrop was concerned about the moral character of America’s development. Welcome, and thank you for choosing...Read more... Read more...

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...

Annual Schedule, Calendar Articles, Christian Biography, Christian Living, Default Category, Devotional Literature, Jesus Christ, Salvation & Grace

Listen In the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. there resides a full-body statue of General Lew Wallace, Civil War hero and author of the literary classic, Ben Hur. The story behind the composition of this time-honored classic is one worthy of being rehearsed on a regular basis, and no season of the year is more fitting for its telling than the...Read more... Read more...

Calendar Articles, The Bible

Listen * Contribution of the Jews to Christianity * by Dr. Stephen Flick Abraham’s journey began when his father, Terah (Genesis 11:31), took Abraham, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarah (Sarai), the wife of his son Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees, which is today southern Iraq. From there, Abraham proceeded to Palestine, located at the crossroads between...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 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...