Posts with the category “articles”

Most people are more familiar with this Christmas poem, with Santa Claus and Rudolph than they are the true meaning of Christmas. As a matter of fact, this December holiday is universally celebrated, ...  Read More

In 1719, Isaac Watts published a book of poems, each of which was based on a Psalm of the Bible. In his published works were the words of Joy to the World. Watts wrote these lyrics based off of Psalm ...  Read More

What if the One True Gospel of Jesus Christ changed you so much, that you no longer lived for yourself? What if the Saving Work of Jesus Christ—the Perfect Atonement for your sins—changed you so much,...  Read More

Cross-referencing 2 Corinthians 5:1 with Philippians 3:19-21 allows us to see the difference in mentality between the Ambassador and the unbeliever.Verse 19 clearly explains that the unbeliever sets h...  Read More

From the very outset of the Ambassador’s life, he sets his focus on “the things that are above.” The Ambassador recognizes that he is not of this world, and therefore should not live according to the ...  Read More

Chapter 5 leads us into verse 20, which says, “we are Ambassadors for Christ…” The Apostle Paul is writing this letter to the Corinthian church and explaining what it means to be an “Ambassador.” Chap...  Read More

Being an Ambassador means that you understand that this earth is temporary. The Ambassador sets his focus on his future hope in Christ. The Ambassador looks not to the things of this world, but instea...  Read More

In today’s American Christian culture many claim and profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They believe in his death and resurrection. They proclaim that Jesus paid the price for their sins. ...  Read More

“…I am The Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of ...  Read More

Throughout the past three years, there has been a mass exodus of students out of the public school system. In fact, recent studies estimate 1.2 million K-12 students have left the public school system...  Read More

“The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us, that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, ...  Read More

As we come to the last verse of what is known as the Beatitudes, we encounter yet another verse on how to handle persecution. The purpose of the Beatitudes is to help the believer understand that the ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

"Blessed" This is to be happy with an eternal mindset. It's not temporary happiness, but lifelong joy. This is to find absolute peace in your life, no matter your circumstances. To be “blessed” is to ...  Read More

The beatitudes are most well-known for being found in Matthew 5:3-12, which is what we will be studying through this book. This word “beatitude” never appears in the Bible, outside of the subtitle, wh...  Read More

As I glanced through the weekly headlines and articles over the course of the last few days, it occurred to me that there should be some great concern in the hearts of individuals. As American Christi...  Read More

What does it mean to give your time to God? Is it a matter of quantity? Is it a matter of filling time in order to fulfill a religious requirement? What is the standard by which we determine a good us...  Read More

Our church has been going through a study recently that has as its central focus decision making according to Christian principles. The study aims to polemically address a false teaching that depends ...  Read More

What seems like a focus on wives to just “get in line and obey your husband,” is transformed in its thinking in terms of a relationship with Christ. There are two sides to this relationship that we se...  Read More

We see this word “however” in verse 32 because the mystery of Christ and the church is primary and the secondary is that our marriages should resemble Christ and the church. More important than your m...  Read More

To the Christian family:There is much to understand about the Christian life and how we, as believers in Jesus Christ, are to walk by faith in obedience to the Word of God. Even the most knowledgable ...  Read More

Our church has spent a significant amount of time studying the Qualifications of the Overseers, which is established in 1 Timothy 3:1-7. As we have looked through this verse, we have understood that t...  Read More

Zechariah is a prophet. This book was probably written around the sixth century B.C. Zechariah’s purpose in writing was mainly to encourage God’s people about the long-term future of Jerusalem. So, wh...  Read More

There are a few vital truths in this verse that I want to focus on as we set out to better understand the need mankind has to turn from sin to God. Are all men called to repent? The first question I w...  Read More

The phrase “being born again” has been thrown around by Christians in American society for decades; yet the popular understanding of what it means is an unfortunately grave misunderstanding. It is not...  Read More

The fourth stanza of the 119th Psalm is once again centered on the sufficiency of Scripture. The Psalmist is confessing his sin with a penitent heart, making a turn from his transgression to once agai...  Read More

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). By the sixth day God had created everything else that we have come to know in this world. “And God saw everything that he had ma...  Read More

...As we look at the landscape of the journey ahead, the scope, impact and reach that Resolved Ministries will be able to achieve is beyond what I ever thought possible just a few short years ago. By ...  Read More

Many people profess to believing in Jesus as their Lord and Savior, but do not have an actual understanding of the Gospel. There is great concern is “American Christianity” that a large number of indi...  Read More

     So far in this text, we have discovered the, Simplicity of the Gospel, the Power of the Gospel, the Profundity of the Gospel and now we will look at the Promise of the Gospel. Through this text, ...  Read More

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is so powerful, that it will take a dead man and make him alive (see part 2). It is so transformative, that it will take a blind man and allow him to see. And it is so dynam...  Read More

At the very core of the Gospel message is the reality that it requires a child-like faith. The Gospel is simplistic in its nature, which we have seen in the previous article. But often times, the Ch...  Read More

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a radical, life-altering, transformative message of hope. This message provides the wanderer with the soul-satisfying sufficiency that he did not know was absent from his...  Read More