Matters Of Faith

DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 3 Distinctive Themes in John’s Message God and Evil in the World – The Paradox of God’s Love One might ask the age-old question after reading this Gospel: If God loves us so much how come He let’s evil thrive and harm us? And where does the Real, Divine Jesus stand on this matter? What does Ben-Zebedee…

DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 2 The Main Actors in the Message of the Evangelist Introduction The message in John’s narrative of Jesus’ Ministry shows that as a self-evident truth the identities of Jesus and His Father, our God, are intertwined. Nonetheless he also provides episodes in which he shows Jesus is human, one instance being when Jesus went with His family…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What You May Not Know About The Real Jesus”: The Amazing Story by Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee Part 1 Why Should We Trust This Gospel? Introduction Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee was a friend of Jesus. They were very close; perhaps best friends. Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee wrote a special biography of his friend, Jesus, which was different from anything others had written, even other close friends. In the English language spoken today, Yohhannan Ben-Zebedee is known as “John the son…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Christians Must Show Love And Compassion; And Speak Out For Refugees In The United States My friend, where do you stand as a Christian in relation to the American government’s Immigration Policies? President Trump wants a “… new legal immigration system that protects American wages, promotes American values, and attracts the best and brightest …” By deduction this policy is the motivation for closing the door to Third World refugees, asylum seekers and Moslems,…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE What’s True about Emotions? To begin with, is love considered an emotion outside the Bible? How does psychology describe love? Once passed the technical debate in psychology over what really constitutes an emotion with respect to class inclusion it is generally agreed that an emotion is different from such things as knowledge or an intellectual process like reasoning. Describing emotions however, can get complex and as such individual, mixed and clustered emotions have not…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE When Using the Rod Is not Discipline Many Christian parents have long hung on to and strongly justified their use of physical punishment on children as Bible-centered. Many people however do not realize that the saying: “Spare the rod and spoil the child” is not in the Christian Bible. It is a secular proverb! Other statements about use of the rod however do occur in the OT, such as: “Whoever spares the rod hates…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE MAKE THE PLEDGE TO CULTIVATE GOOD SOIL FOR THE GOSPEL Fellow Believers, We are called to represent the Lord because we are His Body. As you may know this means it is with our hands, feet, face mind, mouth and other parts of our physical and mental make-up that we present to the world Who Christ is. This is an awesome task but one on which we must proudly embark because it’s also a…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Our Biological State Is God-Given The LGBTQ2SA+ acronym refers to persons who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirit Asexual, Agender, Genderqueer, Bigender, Intersex, Pansexual etc. The plus sign (+) is used to recognize that there are more sexual orientations and gender expressions than are or can be captured in designations and acronyms. It is no secret that some if not many Christians earlier on rejected these identities, believing them to…

DOWNLOAD COPY OF THIS ARTICLE HERE Why You May Be Wrong: What Non-Believers Don’t Know About Being Christian   Once a Christian but not Really One Now? Never a Christian? So Why Are You not a Christian? It’s a common criticism that Christians are judgmental and hypocritical. And why, therefore, would it be surprising that some believers are disillusioned and non-believers do not want to associate with this kind of so-called godly individuals? Would you believe though, that this complaint…