Holy Spirit The Christian worships God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit: Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). The Bible clearly teaches that God is one in being but also three distinct persons: May […]

Jesus Christ–God the Son If there is one word that captures the message of Jesus Christ and his centrality in the Scriptures, it’s the word life. These things are written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s Son, and that believing, you will have life in his name (John 20:31). Any series on […]

God the Father The Scriptures tell us that God is Spirit, God is light, God is love, and God is a consuming fire. We are told he is eternal, unchangeable, absolute, and perfect in all power, wisdom, holiness, and truth. He is the creator and blessed controller of all things. In his infinite wisdom and […]

The Bible The Bible claims to be the Word of God, written by prophets and apostles of God. A prophet was a messenger and servant of the Lord who said what God told him to say, nothing more and nothing less. It is the inspired Word of God. All Scripture is inspired by God and is […]

Forgiveness Forgiveness has a two-fold significance for everyone. First is the personal need to be forgiven for sinning against the God who created you. Second is your need to forgive those who have hurt or wronged you as you learn to walk in God’s ways. You came into this world as a sinner, in the […]

Sin The fundamental Biblical concept of sin can be summed up in a single word—rebellion. A variety of uses and translations can be found with comparable words and phrases such as transgression, guilt, lawless, to go astray, miss the mark, or to fall away. Ultimately, all sin includes some form of defiance against God and […]

1. ONLY GOD CAN CALM A RAGING SEA. JEHOVAH: “O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them” (Psalm 89:8-9). JESUS: “And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said […]

Faith Christian faith begins with the sense that there is another dimension in your existence, an awareness in your beliefs that there is a force beyond human reasoning. The Biblical definition of faith is very simple: Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot […]

Salvation The paradox of human thinking lies in the reality that we think we are improving ourselves and the world at large. We cling to the belief that by improving things around us we are improving our human nature. But who and what we are requires honest soul searching. Am I good? How good? Is […]

Men who catch animals in Africa for zoos in America say that one of the hardest animals to catch is the ring-tailed monkey. For the Zulu tribe of that continent, however, it’s simple. They’ve been catching this agile little animal with ease for years. The method that the Zulus use is based on knowledge of […]