The Christian traditions that will thrive in twenty-first century America will be those who take seriously their responsibility to instruct believers in the faith.
What is salvation? Through Jesus’ sacrificial death and victorious resurrection, we are reconciled with God and rescued from destruction.
What Happens When We Live Out Our Salvation in Christ? God continues to work in us to make us holy and blameless.
Question: Who is God? Answer: God is the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Three persons in one God. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship
Question: What is God Like? Answer: God is perfect in power, knowledge, and in His holy love.
Why did the Son of God become human? Because God loves us and wants to make us true children of God. But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of
Absolute Basics is an eight-week confirmation study is stocked with rich explanation and engaging videos that bring catechesis to life for people of all ages, backgrounds, and stops along their spiritual journey.
You keep hearing about this thing called confirmation, but you have no idea what it is or why you should care. Philip Tallon gives us the rundown.
John of Damascus grounds the making of image in the incarnation (the “taking on flesh”) of Jesus Christ, who “married” heaven and earth through the union of God and man. If the God-Man Jesus is the “express image” of God, as Hebrews 1:3 says, then the artist is free to express himself creatively, using the material of the world to faithfully image God in Christ.
There’s an operative logic of redemption running so deep in Western storytelling that, given enough time, we should expect that all villains will eventually become heroes. Origen may have been wrong to state that even the devil will eventually be saved, but a certain kind of “narrative universalism” is true in Hollywood.
Is your student ministry focused on being attractional or transformational? Do you want to go wide and get a lot of kids? Or do you want to go deep and really teach and shape the students you have? Do we do silly events or evangelism? Water balloon fights or witnessing?
Here’s a deep and eternal truth: fill a bunch of water balloons and you’ll always have teenagers eager to launch them at their fellow humans. Water balloons are magic. This is why we kicked off our summer this year with the biggest water balloon fight we could throw.
