Karma.. I hear a lot of people talking about Karma these days. They say, what goes around, comes around; In other words, someday you’re going to get treated the same way you treat other. People say; I don’t worry about getting revenge, I just let Karma take it’s course. But that’s really not what the notion of Karma originally refers to. Karma has it’s origin in Hinduism. …
Are Christians Expected to Gather Together for Worship? It is common for Christians to assemble together on the first day of the week to worship God. We’re instructed to come together for worship, and in the bible, we’re given the example of first century Christians coming together for worship. The entire fourteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians deals with the subject of coming together for worship. Verse 19 says; …
The “Role” and the “Work” of the Holy Spirit In Part 1 of this study, we saw how the bible portrays the Holy Spirit as the “power” of God. By the word “power”, I mean the active force that accomplishes the will of God. For example, it was the Spirit of God (aka the Holy Spirit) who was “moving over the face of the waters” during the…
Who Is The Holy Spirit ? In our study of the Holy Spirit, the first thing we need to do, is to answer the question, “Who is the Holy Spirit”? And of course we’re not going to speculate about it, but as with all things, we’re going to simply see what the bible says about it. Then we’ll be sure that we know the truth of…
Do You Think The Bible Is Hard To Understand? Do you think that the bible is hard to understand? I believe that most people think it is. A man recently commented to me and said; “If God is so omnipotent, then why couldn’t He give us a book that everyone could understand? That’s a good question. Why couldn’t God have given us a book that was…
Mt Sinai and the Ten Commandments I am hoping that this lesson will help in laying out all the specifics concerning the giving of the ten commandments at Mt Sinai. It’s an interesting little study, so I hope you’ll enjoy it. A good understanding of the event, is really just a matter of reading the accounts given in Exodus chapters 19 & 20, and also …
“On The First Day of the Week When We Gathered Together..” This article is for every Christian who has ever wondered about the question; Is it a sin to miss just one, first day of the week, worship assembly of the church? The answer to that question depends upon the reason, for missing one worship assembly. No one is immune from sickness, and so it’s obvious that at some time…
The Bible Says That Faith is The Evidence of Things Not Seen The eleventh chapter of the book of Hebrews is commonly called, “the chapter on faith”. And the question under consideration today, comes from the first verse of that chapter. Here’s that verse… Heb 11:1, “Now faith is the substance (or assurance) of things hoped for, the evidence (or conviction) of things not seen.” …