Tag: why
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Five Reasons Why Decreasing the Number of Worship Services Might Be the Best Move
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that increasing the number of worship services is the best path to go. You rarely heard leaders advocating decreasing the number of services. The concern is that the reduction of choices results in lower over…
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Five Reasons Why Decreasing the Number of Worship Services Might Be the Best Move
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that increasing the number of worship services is the best path to go. You rarely heard leaders advocating decreasing the number of services. The concern is that the reduction of choices results in lower over…
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Gary Chapman Explains Why Everyone Needs to Know Their Love Language, Christian or Not
Chapman is also aware that with the influence of the book – which he describes as one of the easiest books out of the fifty that he has written – there are critics, and he’s fine with that.
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In Hebrews 11 why is Rahab included in the “Hall of Faith” while the spies are not?
Hebrews 11 list a number of people that Hebrews 12:1 calls a “great a cloud of witnesses”. Among them are the usual suspects: Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. But there are also some lesser names, including Abel, Enoch, an…
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In Hebrews 11 why is Rahab included in the “Hall of Faith” while the spies are not?
Hebrews 11 list a number of people that Hebrews 12:1 calls a “great a cloud of witnesses”. Among them are the usual suspects: Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. But there are also some lesser names, including Abel, Enoch, an…
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Why does Acts not mention the deaths of Peter and Paul?
As far as we know, Peter and Paul died in Rome in the mid 60s. According to most scholars the Book of Acts is dated to 80+, sometimes as late as 120. Given how often the book mentions Peter and especially Paul, you’d expect there to be at …
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Why didn’t God speak to the waters to subside in Genesis 8:1?
After the flood when God wanted the waters to subside he sent the wind to that KJV Genesis 8 : 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth,…
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Why I Love To Write :: By Paul J. Scharf
I remember when I first realized that I loved to write. I was in high school, and I had a newfound fascination with the Bible—especially Biblical prophecy—and it dawned on me that I had somehow unexpectedly developed a love for writing. Growing up with a passion for sports, my first desire was to be a…
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Why did John use the name Nicodemus, a Greek name, instead of his Hebrew name in John 3:1?
νικάω … 1. intr. be victor, prevail, conquer… 2. trans. conquer, overcome, vanquish… — Arndt, W., Gingrich, F. W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (1979). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian lit…
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Why the Rapture? :: By Terry James
My contention continues to be that the answer to this question can be found within one verse. It is a statement by the ascended Lord Jesus Christ to John, the disciple Jesus called “beloved.” I believe there is a singular word to describe the reason for the Rapture. We will, I hope, get to both…