Tag: root produces fruit
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To Him Who Has, More Will Be Given
Did you know that there are stories in the Bible that did not really happen? Christianity’s critics accuse Christians of believing stories that are not literal. They accuse the Bible of being false and unreliable because it contains stories that are not literal or historically accurate. Here, a clarification needs to be made about the…
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Christ’s True Family
Matthew is describing Heaven’s kingdom in this part of his narrative. Tonight, we get to conclude Jesus’s doctrinal explanation in this section of Matthew’s Gospel. Next week we will begin working through Jesus’s parables, which illustrate everything we have seen Jesus explicitly teaching through this section. Most recently, Jesus has called a certain group of…
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What if We Really Believed the Storm Obeys Jesus?
Do you desire to see God work? I don’t know of any person who would answer this question with a “No.” Even the most sincere atheist would claim that if he or she could see God at work he would no longer be an atheist. Of course we desire to see God work! In the…
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There is Only One Way to Heaven, and Most People Never See It
During the course of His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus has debunked legalism, or works-based religion, and has promised His disciples that those who ask for the kingdom will receive it by grace alone. Around the world, there are many ways we are told that we can get into the kingdom of heaven, find peace…