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Perfect love casts out fear meaning that our love overcomes the fear in us. A brave man still fears...but his bravery is stronger than his fear. A child cries when hurt. An adult still feels the pain, but doesn't cry because his ability to endure is stronger than the pain.

We abide in the perfect one Jesus Christ. Of ourselves we can do nothing. As Jesus said to abide in Him as of ourselves we can do nothing. So we don't just give up and live like other men while seeming to proclaim the gospel. No, rather seek to have men abide in Christ who becomes our...

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Christianity is not just what God has done FOR man, but what God is DOING IN man.

Does this mean you agree with the difference between faith and certainty?

To equate fruit with numbers is to fall into the temporal understanding of growth through numbers. Rather we grow through love and the depth of love. That is the fruit. Otherwise Islam is bearing more fruit than Christianity.

All religions recruit more people to their "plan". But how many religions transform people into a new creation in Christ? So rather than a new religion with more promises of a future happiness, the truth in Christ is a transformed life through the power of the Spirit. Paul preached a gospel in...

Greetings to all! How much potential do we have as new creations in Christ to do exploits for God? How many potential Paul's and Peter's are there among us? Jesus said... "Verily, verily I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: But if it die it...

The is a great difference between biblical faith and certainty. If we are convinced of something, does that make it true? If faith was based on being absolutely convinced...then a man who was hypnotized to believe he could walk on water would then be able to do so. Certainty is akin to a...

And how is that applied to people? The answer is by faith of course...bit what does that entail?

The dying daily is the maintenance requirement of staying in the will of God. We are not saved in order to be saved. We are saved in order to walk in the will of God. We are empowered to THAT end and take on the sufferings of Christ in a world that seeks to destroy the work of the kingdom. So as...

There is an aspect of truth in this. Of course, taken in and of itself we are left with humanism and the "up with people" syndrome. We must realize that love is the answer when we see love that comes from God...from above. Sometimes love has to rebuke! Sometimes love has to separate from...

Luther was reacting to the lawlessness he saw in the Catholic church. He saw the selling of indulgences and other money raising tactics as evil...and rightly so. But he also went too far in other areas....as well as being misunderstood. He WAS a Catholic priest until the end of his life. The...

We finally overcome when we are able to remain at the level of obedience to Christ that causes us to be able to walk with Him...not being attracted to the world around. So when our love for the Lord grows to the point when we will no longer forsake Him...and without getting proud about...

The nature of our calling is a daily one. Each day is like a small lifetime. Like the manna in the wilderness...was only good for THAT day. You couldn't take a spiritual benefit for today and make it count for the next without also having met the requirement of the previous day. Jesus said...

Whatever we grow into through grace we must make up for in a new humility and brokenness before God. The error of those who have received grace is to become proud. So we must walk in the death of what we may see as something that exalts us above other men. We must practice humility through...

If we look at the 12 Israelite spies that were sent into the promised land to give an account of what was there we see that 10 of the spies did not believe that the God that had parted the seas and fed them in the wilderness was powerful enough to lead them to VICTORY over the giants in the...

Was the NT written by godly men or imposters. What other generation of Christians have had their writings judged to be scriptural church canon? We see the watering down of this authority in the second century with the martyrdom of Ignatius and Polycarp. The final nail in the coffin was...

If the bible cannot support what the church is teaching, perhaps we should question the validity of such a church. What church says...don't look at your bible but listen to us!!!"