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The gospel in 1 Timothy 1:15
Photo credit: © genotar1 – Fotolia.com With this post we welcome our new pastor, Andrew Courtis, to the Hills Bible Church Blog. 1 Timothy 1:15 is right up there with John 3:16 as a great mini gospel text. It summarizes the grand truths of the gospel in a short memorable statement. Consider these simple (yet profound) words: “the saying is trustworthy and deserving…
Jesus in the Old Testament: When Joshua meets the real Joshua
© Pavel Kann – Fotolia.com I’m up to Joshua in my daily readings through the Bible, and this morning I read Joshua 5. Verses 1-8 tells of the circumcision of the new generation of “the sons of Israel,” and then they celebrate Passover in the Promised Land. All of this is in…
BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE – be careful who you point your finger at
Our Pastor has made it a high priority that we actively pursue and create opportunities to tell others about Jesus. He has taken the focus off us and redirected it to the proclamation of the good news about Jesus to those not now part of our church – to friends, working colleagues, neighbours, and…
Does the Bible call Jesus God?
Photo Credit: © genotar1 – Fotolia.com One day, not long after I’d become a Christian, a Jewish friend of mine (not a believer), challenged me as follows. He argued that Jesus never called himself God and that the church had much later made Jesus into a god. He said that the Bible nowhere called Jesus God. Is that true? All good lies need an element of truth to…
Sin in the life of a Christian: Part II – Our Conversion
The good news of Jesus Christ is that a solution has arrived for my problem of sin. Religion seeks to treat the symptoms of my sins: to help me stop doing bad things. Jesus treats the disease behind the symptoms: my evil heart. He does this by dying on the cross in my place. The punishment I…
“To the Jew first”
Romans is said to be Paul’s masterpiece letter in which he explains the gospel. Romans 1:16 is said to be the key verse of the letter: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek”. What a great verse! But what does that last bit mean? How is the gospel “to the Jew…
Sons and Heirs
In Galatians 4, Paul expounds on the doctrine of adoption. That is, the doctrine that, even though we were born into sin and death, God sent his Son Jesus to redeem those under this curse of sin and death, so that we could be adopted into God’s family. Paul puts it like this: In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles…
Creating gods
God is omnipotent. God is omniscient. God is loving. God is wise. God is good. Sometimes it’s good to just focus on who God is. Wayne Grudem points out in his video series, Christian Beliefs, that God’s omniscience means that God knows everything about everything right down to knowing the history and future of every single atom in the universe he created. But that isn’t…
Jesus is our Great High Priest
Jesus is now our great High Priest. He alone was qualified to be sacrificed on our behalf so that through Him the penalty for our sin may be upheld and we can go into God’s presence. Through Jesus’ sacrifice, God can justly forgive us and reconcile us to Him forever.
No Power in Faith
I acquired a Kindle this past Spring. It has been one of the best technology purchases I’ve made in recent years – not so much because of the technology, but because it has opened the door to the writings of men of God. I have loaded the works of men like Bunyan, G.K. Chesterson, John Calvin, D.A.Carson, John Owen, Charels Stanley, Wayne Gruden, Martin Luther,…