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#WCSK Episode 0.3: What if I am not certain?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. Introduction The central point that I am going to explain in this lesson is that—as I have written many times before—the Christian…
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#WCSK Episode 0.2: Can I have faith and still have doubts?
What Christians Should Know (#WCSK): Volume Zero takes a step back and investigates basic ideas about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith. This series provides crucial answers to critical questions about belief. Introduction Let’s start by taking a look at what the Bible says about trusting in God and having doubts. (All verses below…
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#WCSK Episode 2.10b: The Sabbath
Picking up from last week… Sabbath as Resistance The Sabbath was instituted as a formal national command to Israel after God freed the Israelites from Egyptian bondage. While the Jews were in Egypt, they lived amidst a culture that was oppressive, had no regard for life, and was not concerned with communal wellbeing. The Egyptian…
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#WCSK Episode 2.10a: The Sabbath
How this Biblical principle applies to your everyday life: Introduction If I were to piggyback and use the lesson on sanctification to sum up this lesson in two sentences, here it is: Sanctification refers to the pursuit of holiness in space. The Sabbath refers to the pursuit of holiness in time. Of course, one reason why Christians…
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#WCSK Episode 0.1b: Why the Five Core Doctrines?
Picking up from last week … Why the Trinity? The Trinity is a unique truth claim of Christianity. God is relational and was in a relationship with Himself before the appearance of humankind, and this relationality informs our relationship with The Lord and with others. This especially defines the contours of interpersonal relations, to point…