We're back this week with the next blog series in our overall series, CREED: What You Believe + Why It Matters. As a reminder, here is the CREED big idea: What you believe influences everything about you — the way you think, feel, speak and act. Right beliefs lead to...
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JESUS: The Doctrine of Christ – Part 5
We've made it to the last mind-blowing reality of the doctrine of Christ, but as always... Let's review: God came to earth.God became a man.God came to ordinary people. MIND-BLOWING REALITY #4GOD CAME FOR OUR BENEFIT According to the Bible, the story of Jesus isn’t...
JESUS: The Doctrine of Christ – Part 4
We're three posts in, so let's review... The first two mind-blowing realities of the doctrine of Christ are: God came to earth.God became a man. Today, we're digging into the third reality. MIND-BLOWING REALITY #3GOD CAME TO ORDINARY PEOPLE Philip Yancey, in his...
JESUS: The Doctrine of Christ – Part 3
In Part One of this series, we discussed the first Mind-Blowing Reality of the Doctrine of Christ... God came to earth. Today, we'll look at the second reality. MIND-BLOWING REALITY #2GOD BECAME A MAN God’s arrival on this planet wasn’t flashy. It was very simple. He...
JESUS: The Doctrine of Christ – Part 2
Before we continue, we have to ask and answer a really important question: How can we know that Jesus was actually God? Jesus matches all the “FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE.” [1] “The premise behind fingerprint evidence is simple: each individual has unique ridges...
JESUS: The Doctrine of Christ – Part 1
It's hard to take everything there is to say about Jesus and put it in one series of blogs, so let's start with a summarized definition of the doctrine of Christ: The Doctrine of Christ Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man. He was born of a virgin, lived the...
YOU: The Doctrine of Human Beings – Part 5
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule [reign – NLT; have dominion – ESV] over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the...
YOU: The Doctrine of Human Beings – Part 4
Being made in the image of God means that we have an inherent responsibility. Within that responsibility lies what I'm calling our "job description". 26Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they...
YOU: The Doctrine of Human Beings – Part 3
We're at the midway point in the blog series, YOU: The Doctrine of Human Beings, but let's recap what we've talked about so far... In yesterday's post, we talked about the first practical implication of the Imago Dei or the image of God: Every human being ever...
YOU: The Doctrine of Human Beings – Part 2
We were created to be “like” God and to represent God to this world and to reflect God’s glory back to Himself. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness…” — Genesis 1:26 NLT Out of all creation — out of every organism, life form, animal,...