Tag: gospel
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I Gave My Life to Jesus
Personal performance vs the good news of Jesus. Glen Scrivener describes his journey to faith from ‘giving his life to Jesus’ as ‘youth group’s keenest kid’ to discovering what Jesus did that none of us could never achieve.
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An early fragment of the New Testament
P52 (a fragment of papyrus with writing in Greek) is on display in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, UK. This ancient ‘scrap of paper’ features a snippet of John 18:31-33 and 37-38. It has been dated to the early part of the second century, part of a myriad of textual evidence that helps…
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Engaging with a Secular World
Michael Ramsden was in Sydney this year for a pastor’s conference. He talks about how he came to faith in Jesus, why the world desperately needs to heed the message of Jesus, and what the church needs to be on about. This disintegrating world needs the gospel.
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Is Hell for Real? Common Misconceptions.
This article from the GOOD BOOK COMPANY THREE FUNERALS AND A WEDDING: Common Misconceptions About Hell by Erik Raymond | July 31st 2017 One of the reasons why Christians find it so difficult to talk about God’s judgement is the level of misunderstanding that already exists about what Hell is. The word and the idea…
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Is Christianity bad news for women?
Amy Orr-Ewing delivers the 2017 Richard Johnson Lecture, “Is Christianity Bad News for Women?” The 2nd-century Greek philosopher Celsus famously dismissed Christianity as a religion of women, children, and slaves – that is to say, not to be taken seriously. But Christianity is much more likely to be condemned today, not for being a religion of …
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