Believers

Although there’s many Christians around me and there’s many voices about religion, none of them succeed to convince me to believe in any religion. I sometimes ask my friends about the “God” they believe due to curiosity. However it seems that even the believers cannot describe…

FASTING IN THE NEW TESTAMENT A Common Discipline The discipline of fasting is a practice that is commonly misunderstood. The connotations that surround this spiritual discipline leave many people to view fasting in one of two extremes: something that is hazardous to one’s health, or something for those in a seemingly unreachable spiritual state. However, the reality is neither of these. To quote John Wesley, “Some have exalted fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have…

to the word of God can become his or her own deliverance with the omnipresence of God. In this context Joshua's best proof of the omnipresence of God may be found in Joshua 1:5 where Joshua claims that the Lord talked directly to him and gave him a promise "as I was with Moses so I will be with you. Therefore Joshua started his task of leading Israel with the assurance of the presence of God. Then Joshua continues his lesson concerning the presence of God with four assurances that live in 1:5…

the Gospel, but stretches far beyond sharing and into the realm of discipling new believers in their walk with Christ. It is my philosophy that when discipling a new believer, you will have to develop personal specific plans for the new believers. There are some basic principles to fallow when it comes to discipleship, which has been shown to us throughout the Bible, we should fallow when working with a new believer. Discipleship has biblical connotations in both the Old and New Testament, and…

The term evangelism has a lot of stigmas attached to it. Some people (some believers (not all)) see it as a great and very necessary thing that we all are called to practice and do everyday. While other people (non-believers and believers alike) view evangelism as street preachers telling passerby that they are heathens and they are going to hell if they don’t get Jesus. When it comes to evangelism, obviously you want to do the first one and not the second. But how do you properly do it? What do…

qualities or abilities with in a believer - the creator’s unique workmanship in him or her. Through the motivational gifts, God makes believers aware of needs that he wants to meet through them, for his glory. Then, believers can ministers to others through the ministry and manifestation gifts of spirit, in ways beyond mere human capability and ingenuity, with maximum effectiveness and minimum weariness. An Exhorter’s basic motivational drive is to encourage believers to mature in Christ and to…

8:16-18 ESV). The Holy Spirit grants spiritual gifts to believers which are to be used for the aforesaid purposes of God’s kingdom. The charismatic spiritual gifts are no longer given to Christians today because the canon is closed, and the extension of such gifts would suggest that God is still speaking authoritatively…

whole building being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.” Having accomplished their work, the moved off the scene. In New Testament times, the prophets received their word directly from the Lord through the Holy Spirit; today believers receive the Word from the Bible because we have the completed Word of God. Beware of people who come to you and tell you God told them… or God told them to tell you. (Pastor who told opposition party they would win the election…

Christians are in a much better position to cope with stress than non-believers. They always have God as a comfort and redeemer to help them with their lives get stressful. God will always take the believers stresses from them and help them to cope with stress. In 1 Peter 5:7, believers are encouraged to, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” Biblical stress was not uncommon. Many of the bible time believers endured much persecution from the government and fellow citizens…

He too desired to spread the gospel even further through the written gospel of Mark. Clearly, throughout the gospel of Mark, evidences of his strong knowledge of Jesus’ divinity shines forth. This characteristic of Jesus is critical for all new believers to grasp because only God is perfect and righteous. Mark wanted everyone to acknowledge this and believe this. Most people did, “recognize that Jesus is divine…except the religious leaders” (Elwell & Yarbrough, 2013, p. 78). These religious…