What is the substitutionary life of Christ? It’s that Christ EXCHANGED His life for yours. 1.  He took your life of sin, so that… 2.  You could have His life of righteousness. For He (God) made Him (Christ) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21 How To Live the Life of Christ But how do you LIVE the life of Christ? The ability to live …

If you are a Christian, you need to fill yourself with the teachings of the Bible.  Doing this can be a hard and laborious process— unless you fall in love with the Bible. How do you fall in love with the Bible? You understand the powerful themes of the Bible and how they involve YOU! At its core, the Bible is a LOVE STORY about a King and His citizens.  God placed man on earth to rule over His earthly …

Perhaps you realize the need to read and study your Bible, but you’re not sure the best way to go about it. In this article I’m going to discuss how to get the most out of the Bible. Getting the most out of the Bible is a 4 step process. You have to: Read it Study it Meditate on it Memorize it These four steps can be applied to any approach you take in studying the Bible. You can study …

Recently my wife told me about a friend of hers who didn’t feel that the Bible was necessarily complete.  She felt that there were “more books” to discover. For this reason she’s open to considering such books as: The Book of Enoch, The Gospel of Thomas, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Epistle of Barnabas, The Gospel of Judas, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and other historical literature as potential scripture. What my wife’s friend doesn’t know is that these books …

If REAL FAITH is based in an objective idea, what is the objective idea of the Bible?  Can we really trust the Bible? One of the strongest OBJECTIVE evidences for the trustworthiness of the Bible is FULFILLED PROPHECY.  Although other religious books make prophetic predictions, none of them are as SPECIFIC as the Bible.  In most cases the prophecies in these non-Biblical books do not come true at all.  In other cases, the prophesies are vague and fulfilled only in …

Today there are hundreds of English Bibles.  The exact number is hard to determine because many Bibles are simply revisions of earlier ones.  That being said, there are approximately 50 English Bible translations if you don’t count the revisions associated with them. Here is a list of some of them: King James Version (KJV)New International Version (NIV)New American Standard Bible (NASB)New King James Version (NKJV)English Standard Version (ESV)New Living Translation (NLT)Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)New Century …

Before we can discuss the purpose of meditation, a clear distinction between TYPES of meditation must be made. Two Types of Mediation Eastern Meditation Biblical Mediation The purpose of Eastern Meditation is to BLANK the mind.  The purpose of Biblical meditation is to FILL the mind. Let’s discuss these one at a time. Eastern Meditation In order to draw proponents, Eastern meditation claims that its function is to calm the mind.  But calming the mind is actually a function of …