The Beatitudes: Matthew 5:1-12 – The Character of the Kingdom: Part One

December 30, 2018   |  

Historic Christianity consists of two kinds of orthodoxy. The first type is theological. That is to say, there are certain doctrinal tenets that are essential and common for any person or group to be regarded as authentically Christian. They can be summarized by the ancient statement called the Apostles Creed.…
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The Ten Commandments: A Ten Part Study of the Decalogue – Part 10

December 8, 2018   |  

The past several months in this column we have examined the Ten Commandments, perhaps the best known legal and moral code ever conceived. We know, of course, that they were revealed to Moses on Mount Horeb during the time of the Exodus from Egypt. They formed, and still form, the…
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Non-Christian Beliefs Mentioned in the Bible: Epicureanism

September 30, 2018   |  

Introduction
In Acts 17, we read the story of the apostle Paul going to Athens, Greece and interacting with people from many different religious backgrounds. One of those was a group of Epicureans. Epicureanism was a belief system founded by a Greek philosopher named Epicurus. While this religion was not…
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