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Many Christians are unwittingly practicing a form of Christian mysticism without being aware of it. This eBook explores the history and practice of Christian mysticism and answers the question, "Is mysticism a Biblically-supported practice and an authentic Christian means to know God?"
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Very few Christians understand the relationship between faith and works, and particularly which works are acceptable to God and which are not acceptable. When it comes to our works, the Bible distinguishes between "dead works" and "good works." Many Christians are doing dead works that are unacceptable to God. The Bible says we must stop doing dead works and enter into God's work if we want to know God and obey Him. This Ebook explains the difference...
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Many Christians confuse legalism with any Bible teaching that emphasizes holiness, which simply means obedience to Christ. If we do not preach holiness, we are not preaching the whole gospel of Christ. On the other hand, we should never preach holiness to others unless we can also teach them how to practice God's true holiness simply by believing and acting on Christ's completed work on the cross. Otherwise, we put God's people under a miserable and...
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The myth that God's love is unconditional has become widely accepted in the church today. But nowhere in the Bible does it say God's love is unconditional. In fact, from Genesis to Revelation, both the Old and New Testaments clearly state that God's love is conditional. The Bible emphatically says of God: "You love those who love You and obey You (Daniel 9:4)." This short eBook will examine the reason why some Christians promote this myth, and what...
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n the Scriptures, Jesus Christ inseparably linked discipleship with carrying your own cross. Jesus said, "Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow Me, cannot be My disciple (Luke 14:27)." Thus, Jesus Christ bore our sins on His cross, but He also said we must bear our own cross. What does this mean? The Scriptures reveal there are two essential aspects of the cross of Christ: first and foremost, there is Christ's completed work on the cross,...
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The Bible says that, during Jesus' ministry on earth, "many of His disciples turned away and did not follow Him anymore (John 6:66)." Jesus never said that any of those one-time disciples who stopped following Him were guaranteed eternal salvation and had a secure place in heaven reserved for them. In fact, Jesus clearly said the opposite: only those disciples who do not fall away from Him have the security of knowing eternal salvation. Yet, in spite...
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The gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit are both supernatural expressions of God and intended to encourage and comfort the body of Christ, but they are different in many respects. Because of unbelief and ignorance, the church has two common problems concerning spiritual gifts—either a lack of use of the gifts or a misuse of the gifts. When Christians lack spiritual fruit, the church is sick but when Christians lack spiritual gifts, the church...
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God does not want His people to be lawless and habitually overcome by sin. Neither does He want them to pursue a self-righteous, man-made morality and outward form of godliness apart from faith in the power of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. This eBook clarifies the difference between the Law of Christ and the Law of Moses and explains how the Law of Christ has fulfilled the Law of Moses, so that by faith in the cross of Christ we can wholeheartedly...
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The rebirth of the nation of Israel on May 14, 1948, and Israel's regaining sovereignty over the old city of Jerusalem on June 6, 1967 signaled the beginning of present end-time climatic events. The next significant prophetic event likely to occur will be the "great tribulation" forecast by Jesus Christ. This eBook reviews the historical fulfillment of major prophecies related to this worldwide event, and offers a roadmap of future events leading...
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What does it mean to hear and obey Jesus' voice? It does not mean following some mystical feeling, because feelings (even "good" religious feelings) are prone to deception. Tragically, very few professing Christians know how to hear Jesus' voice. Yet, Jesus said all those sheep, who truly belong to Him will, hear His voice when He speaks to them, not just on the day they are, saved, but every day afterward as they continue to follow Him. It is impossible...
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This short eBook surveys church history and reveals the purity and power of the church is directly related to the purity and power of the gospel that is preached and practiced. A prime example of this connection is the Protestant Reformation, which only restored half of the gospel. In practice, the Reformation restored the gospel of how "the righteous are saved by faith," but never restored the whole gospel of how "the righteous will live by faith."...
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Most Christians today accept without any question the idea that pastors should receive an annual salary from their local church. However, they may be surprised to learn that there is no Scriptural or historical evidence that the elders, who pastored the local churches in the first century, were given a full-time salary to meet all their financial needs and family obligations. The elders were not full-time Christian workers, they were simply elder...
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Many born again Christians believe they have two natures within them, a new Christ-like nature and an old sinful nature, which war against each other. They believe that their new nature loves God and wants to practice righteousness, but that their old nature loves sin and wants to practice lawlessness. They think that their Christian life reflects whichever of these two conflicting natures they yield themselves to the most. However, this "tale of...
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Many Christians believe God is infinitely happy and that He also, wants us to be happy. They believe the idea of sorrow and suffering is negative thinking that should be, avoided at all costs. However, this is a false gospel. It ignores the whole counsel of God as revealed by His Word. Many Christians mistakenly believe the pursuit of happiness is God's purpose for their lives and is their God-given right and entitlement. However, this directly contradicts...
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For centuries, Christendom has universally endorsed and promoted the practice of religious methods or disciplines as the means to live the Christian life and know God. What is the practice of religious methods and does it work? This eBook examines the history and dynamics of this practice from a Scriptural perspective and reveals why this practice is spiritually ineffective, and even spiritually dangerous.
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Most Christians do not know how to stop practicing sin. They find themselves continually overcome by sins such as fear, pride, envy, greed, bitterness, anger, lust, or addictions. As a result, they live lives of secret desperation, shame, frustration and defeat, always afraid of sin's destructive power over them. This is truly tragic since Jesus Christ died on the cross to set us free from sin's domination, and enable us to stop practicing sin. It...
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One factor contributing to Christians' misunderstanding on how God has dealt with their old sinful nature is the translation of the Greek word sarx, which appears 147 times in the New Testament. Most versions of Bible have translated sarx as "flesh." However, the word "flesh" is not only archaic, it is ambiguous and confusing. Consequently, when Christians read the New Testament today and they come across the word "flesh" in the Scriptures, they are...
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This book consists of fifty-two weekly devotional teachings on the purpose and power of the cross of Christ. These meditations on God's Word are progressive, beginning with our new birth and ending with our wedding to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Each meditation contains Scriptural references that can be used for individual or group Bible studies.
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What does it mean for a Christian to submit? The Bible says to "submit to God" (James 4:7), "submit to one another" (Ephesians 5:21), "wives submit to your husbands" (Colossians 3:18), "younger men submit to your elders" (1 Peter 5:5), "servants submit to your masters" (1 Peter 2:18), and "everyone submit to the governing authorities" (Romans 13:1). Although these are all different situations, the same Greek word hypotasso is used in each case. Therefore,...
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Most Christians today accept without question the idea that every church should have a pastor who is the "head" of their church. However, they would be surprised to learn that there is no Scriptural or historical evidence to support our modern-day church system of a sole pastor or senior pastor who is the head of the church. In the New Testament, the term "elder" is always used interchangeably with the terms "pastor" and "overseer." All three of these...