The Good News is Great News: A Christmas Message By Mark Spence
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The Son of God entered the womb in order to be born among men, live a sinless life and be crucified for sinners. In this, He reconciled humanity to God, rose from the grave, abolished death and is right now destroying every work of the devil. If you confess your sin, turn from it, and follow Jesus as Lord, you will be saved. AHACHICAGO.COM/THE-GOSPEL
Gotta Serve Somebody - Word of Life Church Band w/ Phil Keaggy & Paul Clark "Everyone is a slave in the spiritual sense. We are either slaves to sin, which is our natural state, or we are slaves to Christ." -See more:
http://www.gotquestions.org/slave-to-sin.html "The Promised Messiah" - My Christmas Letter to You... Merry Christmas! By Dan Lietha
Life at one time was perfect in the garden of Eden… God made everything perfect and called it “good.” But man willfully and rebelliously turned his back on God by believing the lie of the serpent and sinned. “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—” Romans 5:12 Not long after mankind fell into sin, God proclaimed the Gospel in His curse upon the serpent. “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:15 Right there - from the get-go, was a promise that a Messiah would come who would bruise the head of the serpent. A Deliverer, a Messiah.... one who would victoriously bruise satan’s head and defeat him. Enmity was promised between satan’s offspring and the woman’s offspring. The forces of darkness quickly tried to destroy God’s plan... Read more: http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?7qp2z--3vah7-836icr7&_v=2 It's important not to look past the significance of Christmas. The significance of Christmas is that God provided a Savior for sinful human beings. The most precious gift in all of the world is the gift of eternal life! If you have not yet received the free gift of eternal life (salvation is a gift -- you can't earn it through good works or rituals), then you've missed the real meaning of Christmas!
Pastor John MacArthur says: "Many people today miss Christmas because they don't realize they are sinners. Thus they ignore Christ. They don't show any interest in the Savior because they don't understand their need to be saved. They don't understand that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23)--that sin plummets people into an eternal hell. Consequently they ignore the remedy because they don't even know they have the disease." -See more: http://www.gty.org/resources/questions/QA69/Why-do-so-many-people-miss-the-real-meaning-of-Christmas The Certainty of God's Existence by John MacArthur
Nobody times nothing equals everything is bizarre. . . . How in the world could you explain the universe with any other thing than an intelligent Creator. But as soon as you have an intelligent creator, you have a problem and you know what the problem is? Somebody bigger than you is in charge. It is not an intellectual thing. There's not a rejection of God on campuses today and universities today because it's intellectually reasonable, it is because nobody wants anybody being their judge. That's the issue. READ MORE + LISTEN: http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/GTY66/The-Certainty-of-Gods-Existence Christmas Future - John MacArthur The first coming of Christ was a veiled coming. Wesley got it right in that magnificent hymn: “Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity.” His glory, His majesty, was veiled. The next time He comes, it will be unveiled. The first time He came, His glory was veiled. The second time He comes, His humanity will be veiled. The first time He came, His humanity was on display for all to see, and that is all that most people ever saw. There were only three people who ever saw His glory on the Mount of Transfiguration. Just three: Peter, James, and John. The rest of the world saw only His humanity. The next time He comes, the whole world will see His glory. His humanity will be hidden. To really understand who Jesus Christ is, you have to see Him unveiled, and the best place to see Him unveiled is in the apocalypse, the unveiling. So, open your Bible to the Book of Revelation. And throughout the Book of Revelation, there are titles, and there are statements made concerning Christ that take the veil off and reveal who He really is. Not just a baby in a manger. That becomes very clear in the Book of Revelation when we see Him in His unveiled glory. -See more: http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/80-418/christmas-future Christmas Future - John MacArthur Wheaton College Professor Comes Out Wearing Hijab, Quotes ‘Pope Francis’: ‘We All Worship Same God’12/19/2015 12-14-2015 The following is from the Christian News Network: Wheaton College Professor Comes Out Wearing Hijab, Quotes ‘Pope Francis’: ‘We All Worship Same God’ By Heather Clark WHEATON, Ill. — A professor at a prominent Christian university in Illinois posted photos of herself wearing an Islamic hijab this past week, stating that she was doing so to show solidarity with Muslims. Larycia Hawkins is an associate political science director at Wheaton College, one of the most renown Christian schools in the world. On Thursday, she posted two photos of herself wearing a hijab, and stated in a lengthy explanation that she plans to wear it everywhere she goes during the Advent—including at the Christian college and to church. “I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind—a cave in Sterkfontein, South Africa that I had the privilege to descend into to plumb the depths of our common humanity in 2014,” Hawkins wrote. Read more: http://christiannews.net/2015/12/14/wheaton-college-professor-comes-out-wearing-hijab-quotes-pope-francis-we-all-worship-same-god/ Wheaton College Suspends Hijab-Wearing Professor Who Declared ‘We All Worship Same God’ | Christian News Network Wheaton Students Demand Reinstatement of Hijab-Wearing Professor Who Declared ‘We All Worship Same God’ | Christian News Network Billy Graham’s Muslims Are ‘Saved’ Remarks Revived After Son Franklin Opposes ‘Same God’ Professor | Christian News Network Christian Colleges that “Burn” God’s Word? by Ken Ham (Answers in Genesis) Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
In this blog essay, Dr. R. Albert Mohler responds to the question as to whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. "Christians and Muslims do not worship the same God. Christians worship the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and no other god. We know the Father through the Son, and it is solely through Christ’s atonement for sin that salvation has come. Salvation comes to those who confess with their lips that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their hearts that God has raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). The New Testament leaves no margin for misunderstanding. To deny the Son is to deny the Father." Read more: http://www.albertmohler.com/2015/12/18/do-christians-and-muslims-worship-the-same-god/ The following is from Berean Research: Disney-Pixar Promoting Evolution? Ken Ham Warns Parents About “The Good Dinosaur” Movie Christian News Network reports on Disney’s latest attempt to entice children into their worldview, which is anything but Christian. This should be of concern to Christians, as Disney has a huge influence on children’s thinking. Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis believes that “this new film will be watched by many children and will only reinforce evolutionary ideas about the history of Earth. Even though it’s fiction, nonetheless it will buttress the false beliefs about dinosaurs that children are taught through much of the media and education system.” Read more: http://bereanresearch.org/disney-pixar-promoting-evolution-ken-ham-warns-parents-about-the-good-dinosaur-movie/ Good Dinosaur: How Movies Indoctrinate our Kids - Generations Radio Pixar’s latest release, “The Good Dinosaur,” presents the wrong anthropology and the wrong worldview foundations. . .but would the average Christian hockey mom, or Christian movie reviewer notice it? Sure, the dinosaur family maintains good family values and all. . .but what’s the more basic anthropological theory working here? |
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