After getting to something about God, people often ask “What does God want me to do?” That’s a great question and in many ways is easier to find out answers that it first seems. Part of finding the answers has to do with the topic of what some church all “Spiritual Discernment.” Big term, but […]
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Where did these lessons come from? Why and how did you put them together? What follows is an answer to these questions. Most important of all, I LOVE the Bible! I truly believe that it is the inspired Word of God, that in it our God shares his mind and heart. I believe it is […]
The book of Colossians in our New Testament is all about Jesus. It shows us in-depth, who he is and then challenges us based on that, how we should respond. If you want to be able to answer the confusing cults and spiritual systems in our world today, you need to know this book well […]
When we started this series on discernment, we asked people in the class give us questions and here is one of them: Jesus said, “Don’t cast your pearls before swine.” On one level I understand this, but on another level, what are pearls? What are swine? How do we discern our “pearls”? How do we […]
In our study of discernment, of how to make the right decisions in the midst of the spiritual warfare that rages around us, this week we looked at discerning theological systems. Here is the questions we looked at: Question: [following a lesson taught] “God knows who is going to be saved and who isn’t. So were […]
From our Bible-based study of the Trinity, we have established so far that all three members of the Trinity are God and all three are Persons. Having said that, how do these persons exist? This was one of the early and most important challenges for the early church to figure out because, in part because […]
Last week we started our study of the Trinity and we could see from the Bible passages that God the Father is God, God the Son is God, and God the Holy Spirit is God. All of them in the Bible are described with the attributes of God. This week the lesson looks at what […]
In a recent television interview, Pastor Rick Warren was asked his opinion about the Mormon Church and he graciously replied that he had a problem with their view of the Trinity, that it was not the Biblical view. I appreciated that because it cut to the core of the difference between the Mormon Church and […]
Why do the Mormons believe that God the Father has a physical body in contrast with the Biblical Christian view that God is Spirit? This and many more views about God that differ from are based on how each church interprets the Bible. The lesson notes that follow show the difference, plus give some extra […]
Easter is coming and Christians recognize this as the central event of their faith. It is also a key area where, though the same words are used, Mormons and Biblical Christians mean two very different things. This week we started on our study of it when we talked about the Mormon view of original sin […]
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