Category: Faith

What It Will Take to Please God

What It Will Take to Please God

When Enoch suddenly disappeared from the earth, the only information God volunteered to our inquiring minds is: “Enoch walked with God” (Gen. 5:24). The writer of Hebrews expounded that to mean “pleased God” (Heb. 11:5). We all claim to walk with God, but is God pleased with us? Pharaoh was pleased with Joseph, so he gave Goshen to Joseph’s family. […]

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PASTORAL LETTER: Exposition Of ECWA Articles Of Faith And Practice Part III

PASTORAL LETTER: Exposition Of ECWA Articles Of Faith And Practice Part III

GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT “The earth was without form, and void; and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” Gen.1:2. “ The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4. “ The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the LORD has […]

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How God Prepared the World for The Coming of His Son

How God Prepared the World for The Coming of His Son

“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son…to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons.” Gal.4:4-5. The coming of the Son of God into the world was timely on God’s program. Although the occasion itselfwas a humble and ordinary incident, its impact has remained the greatest […]

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Radical Obedience to God’s Word Is What True Faith Is All About

Radical Obedience to God’s Word Is What True Faith Is All About

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, … (Heb. 11:13). A braham is called the father of FAITH for a good reason. God told him to leave his people and go to a place he knew nothing about, and […]

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Pastoral Letter/ Exposition of ECWA Articles Of Faith And Practice

Pastoral Letter/ Exposition of ECWA Articles Of Faith And Practice

The Meaning of the Godhead “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen.1:1. “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…So God created man in His own image; in the image of God, He created them; male and female He created them” Gen.1:26-27. “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and […]

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Why Pay for Something That Is Free?

Why Pay for Something That Is Free?

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Mat. 11:28, 29 If you are alive and engaged with people and work in our world today, this invitation […]

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Abigail, A Woman Like None Other

Abigail, A Woman Like None Other

Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the Lord will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my master … Let no wrongdoing be found in you as long as you live. 1Sam. 25:28 Abigail wowed David by the display of the many attributes she had. Read 1 Samuel 25 and be amazed about Abigail. You will discover some of her characteristics: […]

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Faith & Works

Your Work, Your Faith!

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. (Col. 3:23) A Christian is not just a confessor of his faith but a possessor who incarnates every aspect of the tenets of Christianity. His heart, soul, mind, spirit, and body are not compartmentalized; instead, they all converge to present a wholesome […]

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Fetus In Mother's Womb

God’s Final Decision on Human Life

Human life in the womb is worth defending biblically and scientifically — with grace and without shame on anyone involved in a very nuanced and complicated systemic issue. We are all, both male and female, at every stage, made in the image of God. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise […]

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Harry Emerson Fosdick (Britannica)

Reflecting on the meaning of Christian faithfulness

On May 21, 1922, liberal pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick preached his famous “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” sermon. In commemorating its 100th anniversary, liberal Episcopal writer Diana Butler Bass conflates fundamentalism with American evangelicalism and Putinist Russian Orthodoxy as white ethnonationalism whose goals are dictatorially political and not so much theological. Bass’ conflation is unfortunate not only because it is absurdly unfair but […]

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