Helping you see Jesus as the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
As we saw earlier this week, we as Christians don’t get the main portion of our beliefs about the second coming of Christ from that sometimes cryptic book at the back of our Bibles. Rather, we allow the whole counsel of God’s word to teach us and we learned from…
As the 1970s came to a close, it was easy to see that the world particularly the Middle-East was on the verge of war again and America was struggling to maintain its image as the paragon of freedom and prosperity. Many had become disillusioned by the wars, protests, and political…
Like I said yesterday, there are a lot of people who get their picture of what is going to happen at Jesus’ second coming from the somewhat cryptic book at the end of our Bibles. However, Jesus spoke on numerous occasions about his second coming and I think we should…
When the end times is mentioned, many people immediately want to turn in their Bibles to the Book of Revelation. However, this is a mistake. To see the book of Revelation as some sort of cryptic map of future events is to miss its importance to its original audience. The…
In an English village, late in the eighteenth century, stood a humble workshop. Over its door, a sign announced, “Secondhand shoes bought and sold.” Inside, the shoemaker, William Carey, repaired a neighbor’s boot or, when time allowed, continued his study of Latin and Greek. Over the workbench was a crude…
[responsivevoice_button] To end this school year, we will look at our final of the 11 foundational doctrines, the Second Coming. This is a topic that usually elicits one of two responses. You have those that fit into one of the well-defined camps (we will talk about those more this week)…
[responsivevoice_button] Our discussions have brought us into the 1960s and this is the decade that saw the major victories in the Civil Rights Movement. However, you should not think that this movement began in the 1960s, it didn’t even begin in the 1940s or 50s. Efforts to improve the quality…
The reading below comes from “Church History in Plain Language” by Bruce L. Shelley. At the opening of the Age of Progress, the greatest power in English religious life was the evangelical movement, sparked and spread by John Wesley and George Whitefield. The chief marks of the movement were its…
If you didn’t finish it yesterday, open the Student Guide and fill in the blanks as you watch the lesson. You do not need to turn this in, but you can use it on the quiz below. Complete the open note quiz below. [ays_quiz id=’27’]