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Art And The Son
Take My Son A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art. When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died […]
Masturbation
Masturbation (Updated and revised October 21, 2014) The original version of this chapter – an article on ‘Masturbation’ – has been one of the most-read on this website for many years. Obviously, many have unanswered questions about this issue. Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s not something to be particularly proud of, either […]
How To Become A Christian
Before God closed in on me, I was in fact offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. In a sense. I was going up Headington Hill on the top of a bus. Without words & (I think) almost without images, a fact about myself was somehow presented to me. I became aware […]
Why Be A Christian?
…you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you. Saint Augustine, Confessions quoted in Colin Chapman, The Case for Christianity, Tring,Herts:Lion Publishing, 1981, p.44 ~~~ For one of the most profound ways in which the Lord touches us and teaches us about himself and his own essential otherness […]
An Overview Of Church History
The early churches experienced diversity: the church in Corinth was not the same as that which produced the Fourth Gospel, or another in Thessalonica. But there was unity-in-diversity; they were being persecuted, first by Jews, then by Romans, and many Christians in the first three centuries paid for their faith with their lives. Why were […]
Only One Thing Is Important – To Be A Saint
I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth… If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples. Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves […]
Christianity: The Holy Spirit
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. If you then… know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! No one can enter the Kingdom of God with being born of… Spirit. […]
Christianity: Understanding The Bible
There was an Ethiopian [who] had come to Jerusalem to worship and was returning home; seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah. So Philip… asked, ‘Do you understand what you are reading?’ Our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to you according to the wisdom given him… In his letters there […]
Christianity: Some Spiritual Disciplines
Athletes exercise self-control in all things… So I do not run aimlessly… but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified. 1 Corinthians 9:25-27; If two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father […]
Christianity: Do I Have To Join A Church?
[Christ] is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the […]
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