Faith In The New Testament - Different Meanings By: Denny Smith | - The word "faith" is a word that has different meanings in different places where it is found throughout the New Testament. It can be a little disconcerting when one first learns this but at the same time we benefit from knowing it.
In preparation for this article I looked up the word "faith" in a little paperback Merriam Webster Dictionary that I have curious as to what I would find. I found 4 meanings listed as follows: (1) allegiance to duty or a person which you could call loy ... Tags:faith, New Testament, trust, the faith, by faith, word, God
I Can Do All Things Through Christ By: Denny Smith | - The passage written by the apostle Paul and found in Philippians 4:13, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, (NKJV) is a verse I became very familiar with when our young son entered kindergarten many years ago. Tears and fear is what we had on a regular basis that first year. It tears a Dad and Moms heart out to send them off into what is for them the dark terrifying unknown when as they leave the house it is all they can do to keep from crying. Night after night at ... Tags:do all things, Christ, strengthens, God, word of God, power
Does God Always Heal? By: Dale Haven Cox | - If you are familiar with the Bible at all, you may know that the 11th chapter of Hebrews is called The Hall of Faith. In there are some of the greatest names of the Bible that everyone in the world has heard of either from Sunday School, church, or the movies - names like Abraham, Moses, Samson, and others. This is a catalogue of people who had great faith in God and trusted Him and His promises completely in everything. This chapter also defines the word faith. So if you are wonderi ... Tags:God's will, healing, cancer, Hebrews 11, extraordinary faith
Paul's Conversion "€" Justified By Faith By: Denny Smith | - The conversion of Saul of Tarsus, who was soon to be known as Paul the apostle, is one of the most interesting accounts of conversion to Christianity found in the Bible. One can read about Paul's conversion in 3 different accounts given in the book of Acts Acts 9:1-19, 22:1-16, 26:9-20. Saul of Tarsus was one of the really bad men we read about in the New Testament which makes his conversion even more dramatic. How bad a man was Saul?
Faith, Works, And Baptism By: Denny Smith | - Many are the men and women who believe that since the Bible teaches justification by faith (Rom. 5:1) and not by works (Eph. 2:8-9, Titus 3:5) that baptism is excluded as an act essential to salvation despite many passages that teach the contrary (Acts 2:38, 22:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Titus 3:5, Eph. 5:26, 1 Cor. 12:13 compared with Eph. 5:23, John 3:5, Gal. 3:26-27, etc.). They are greatly mistaken.
Did Christ Rise From The Dead Or Is Faith Folly? By: Denny Smith | - Paul, in answer to the question proposed, would say faith is but folly if Christ did not rise from the dead. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! (1 Cor. 15:16-17 NKJV) If Christ did not rise from the dead what hope do we have as we grow old and face the inevitable? Are we but animals?
Faith & Development 2010 Seven-cifa Essay Competition By: SEVEN-CIFA | - Faith and Development 2010-2011 SEVEN-CIFA Essay Competition
The S.E.VEN Fund is pleased to announce its 2010-11 Essay Competition in partnership with the Washington DC-based Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA). We are seeking essays on enterprise solutions to poverty from around the globe that are faith-based, faith-inspired, or interfaith efforts. The competition will award two prizes of US $5,000. The submission deadline is October 15, 2010 at midnight EST. Winne ... Tags:-11 Essay Competition, Faith and Development
Anointed Christian Books Help Build Your Faith By: Jennifer LeClaire | - Christian books can help you understand God's Word. There is absolutely no substitute for reading the Word of God, of course, but reading Christian books that expound on themes or topics in the Bible can help you gain a deeper understanding of the Word.
To be sure, Christian books written by solid authors can expound on Scriptures and make the Word easier to understand so that you can apply these time-tested biblical principles to your daily life. I wrote a Christian book called Ferve ... Tags:Christian Books, Christian Books, Spiritual Faith, Christian Books, Spiritual Faith
Scriptures On Faith By: Richmond Nicks | - God never fails; He always keeps his promises; He knows the future; He is rich in love, wisdom, and righteousness. And best of all, He always knows the way so you can go to him, even when you are feeling lost. His word says that he is not a man that he should lie. If he said it, he will do it; if he spoke it, he will make it good!
Faith can be developed be making the scriptures a part of your mind set. The scripture teaches us to believe even though we have not seen the end product ... Tags:gift of faith, faith work, scripture, important part of jesus, b
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Faith Is Making A Difference In Our Lives By: Ryan Round | - Right from ancient times, faith has been the essential ingredient in getting God's blessings showered upon His creation, mankind.
Adam and Eve were privileged to enjoy everything in the Garden of Eden except the fruit from the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. When Eve listened to the voice of Satan, it was the first failure of faith. She didn't believe that what God had restricted was for her own good, because she didn't have faith in His perfect love fo ... Tags:Faith, God, Garden of Eden
For By Grace You Have Been Saved Through Faith Alone By: Denny Smith | - No, Eph. 2:8-9 does not read that way but that is the way most seem to want to read it. Let me quote the verses for you from the New King James version.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
There is no believer in his right mind who would discount the grace of God in man's salvation. You do not believe you deserve to be saved do you? If you cannot count your own si ... Tags:grace, saved, faith, baptism, wash, sins, baptized, Christ
What I Learned From The--gasp!--word Of Faith Movement By: Aaron Taylor | - Perhaps you've heard of them. Televangelists with bouffant hairstyles and Rolex watches saying send me a dollar and God will give you a hundred, women with gaudy make-up, and the ever-famous "Be healed in the name of Jeeeee-sus" while pushing people to the ground. These are the excesses that come to mind when the average Christian thinks of the "Word of Faith" movement. I've been writing progressive evangelical articles for about a year now on the Sojourners website, but I think it's time for m ... Tags:Word of Faith, liberation theologians, postmodernism, emergent, televangelists, Anabaptists, Pentecostalism, deity of Christ, incarnation, Sojourners
Saved By Faith Or Saved By Holy Spirit Baptism - Which Is It? By: Denny Smith | - Is a man saved by faith or saved by Holy Spirit baptism? I personally do not believe either but there are many advocates of one or the other. (Yes, I believe faith is essential but just not that it is the final step to salvation.)
There are a number of people in what is commonly called the Christian community who are thoroughly convinced that one is saved by Holy Spirit baptism. I do not believe they are in the majority but they are out there nonetheless.
The Best Food Is Faith Food By: Lisa Buldo | - What you read will affect what you believe. When you feed the Word of God (Bible Scriptures) into your spirit by reading the Bible, listening to good teachings and preaching on CDs, DVDs and/or television; and by meditating (thinking about) the Word of God throughout your day, faith actually begins to come alive and becomes a living force within you. That's a very good thing!
Read the Bible. Get an easy to read Bible such as the New Living Translation or the New Century Version t ... Tags:Faith, Bible, Christian, victory, God
Faith Comes By Hearing The Word Of God "€" The Implications By: Denny Smith | - So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Rom. 10:17 NKJV) On its surface this proclamation by Paul is very simple and easy to understand and yet the failure to grasp its implications has brought much division and strife among those who believe Jesus is the Son of God. Faith and opinion are mixed and it seems no one is able to separate the two. It appears to the casual observer that one mans faith is another mans opinion and that it is nearly hopeless to fin ... Tags:faith, word of God, hearing, opinion, faith comes, God
Have Faith In Faith: This Is Vital For Your Existence By: Allen Jesson | - Faith is a word that can be described in different ways. The first and more common description states that faith is a confident belief in something or someone without having material evidence. In the Bible, for example, faith is defined as the evidence of things hoped for and of things not seen. The Bible further explains that, through faith, one can understand all mysteries and have knowledge. In most dictionaries, however, you will find that the meanings provided are more or less the same as t ... Tags:faith, religion
Faith Is Not Just What You Believe By: Denny Smith | - Sometimes I think faith is about the only subject everyone is an expert on but faith is a complex subject involving far more than just the mind and its thoughts and is a subject that needs continual study to mine all its depths.
Faith is not just thought but action. It is a driving force, an inward power that drives man to act and do, to sacrifice, to seek, to suffer, to endure, to commit, and drive on when there appears to be no longer reason nor common sense in doing so. Tags:faith, believe, works, love, commandments, obedience, grace
The Cleansing Of The Church At Ephesus (the Washing Of Water) By: Denny Smith | - Many believe the church at Ephesus (the church being the membership) was cleansed from sin by faith based on the teachings of their denomination and the famous Ephesian passage found in chapter 2 verses 8 and 9, For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. (NAS) Many, many passages of the New Testament teach that salvation is a matter of Gods grace (Acts 15:11, Rom. 3:24, Gal. 2:21 ... Tags:faith, Christ, baptism, grace, cleansed, spirit, church, sin
O Ye Of Little Faith! Do You Find That Offensive? By: Penny Shellswell | - If after learning French for a few months you went to France you would struggle to hold a conversation. So if someone were to say to you, you have too little French you need to learn more, you would probably heartily agree with them!
And yet by the same token if someone says, we don't have enough faith, we throw up our hands in horror and retort, 'how dare you say that'. We are deeply offended.
They say faith cannot be known
They say it is hard to capture
They say faith can do great things
But it is hard to endure.
They say the saints used their faith
They say that men of great faith do great things
They say it takes faith to get your dreams
God says without faith no man impresses Him
The bible is full of scriptures that teach us that God wants us to eat a healthy diet. The most important in my opinion is Genesis 1:29 where God says "Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food." This means to me that as God created the earth and the air, water, plants and animals; he created the best for us. He told us that we should eat fruit, vegetables and that which grows from the ground as our ... Tags:god's word, healthy diet, eat a healthy diet
You Gotta Have Faith By: Michael A. Verdicchio | - For some people, the word, "faith," is misunderstood, and at times, even mysterious. If your faith is big enough you will make it to heaven. Blind faith is the way you prove to God that you really are serious. Having faith and doing what is right in God's eyes is what will get you saved.
Statements like those above, and others like them, do not help people to get closer to God. Many times they do just the opposite. And they also can cause one to doubt, wonder or even to wander.< ... Tags:faith, blind faith, take it on faith, believe
The Kind Of Faith In God That Destroys By: Denny Smith | - There is a faith, a so called Christian faith, that destroys. Those who hold such a faith, while sincere, do not understand faith from a scriptural point of view. Faith is all too often defined as "what I believe." There is more to saving faith than just believing in Jesus, believing he is the Son of God.
If faith alone, defined as what one believes, could save by itself then even the demons could be saved for James says, "even the demons believe--and tremble!" (James 2:19 NKJV) ... Tags:faith in God, faith, works, grace, faith that saves,
Daily Devotion: How To Have Real Faith By: Edwin Joseph | - For the past few months I've been searching for answers regarding the direction and message that God wants me to share and the cellgroup / bible study that I am handling. I search and was desperately seeking God. Fortunately God provided me an answer in a very unexpected situation. I was browsing the internet when I came to see a very intriguing ebook title which is "How To Have Real Faith." It was written by Rick Warren (One of the famous christian authors) who wrote the best selling book "P ... Tags:How To Have Real Faith, Bible Devotionals, Daily Devotion,
Faith Based Wealth: A Blessing Or A Curse? By: Jay Peroni | - Many people assume that any book that has the word "millionaire" associated with "Christian" is one that promises health and prosperity to those who are Christians who adhere to the Bible. Nothing could be further from the truth. God does wish to bless us but He does expect us to be good stewards with the blessing he bestows upon us. God doesn't need our money. He uses it as a tool to help His people. Those blessed with wealth have a greater responsibility.
5 Claims Of Jesus You Should Consider By: Jeanine M | - The decisions we make in life sometimes have lasting consequences. One of those lasting choices has to do with what you believe about Jesus Christ.
Who do you say Jesus is? This is a question that has eternal significance. What you do with Jesus will determine your eternal destiny.
And what is the decision regarding Jesus? We choose to believe in Him or we choose to walk away from Him. He stands with open arms, waiting for us to put our faith in Him. If we ... Tags:Jesus, Jesus Christ, God, salvation, gospel, faith, sin, believe
God's Word In: The Power Of Effective Communication By: Debbra Sweet | - I have made a very conscious effort over the years to be as precise as possible in my speech so as to avoid misunderstandings with people. This has worked well for me overall although a recent event proved to me that even with very carefully chosen words people can still have problems with effective communication and understanding.
We as believers who have the foundation of God's Word, and the tools to research God's Word, should have the focus of effective communication ... Tags:Faith, Believing, God, Success, Wisdom, Communication
Faith Vs. Fear: Are You Running Scared Or Believing In God? By: Debbra Sweet | - The word (the written bible) is filled with instruction in the areas of faith and fear. It is up to us to work the word, study it, learn it and hold onto the information God has so beautifully laid out for our learning.
The word also speaks often of rumors of wars in divers (many) places'. It talks about famine, upheavals of people and the bad decisions people made and the consequences that come along with it.
The Shield Of Faith By: Karin Peavy | - Simply put, faith is believing, taking God at His word without reasoning or questioning. When I get ready to sit down in my chair at the office I don't wonder if the chair is going to support me. I sit down **anticipating** that it **will** support me. This is the attitude we must have towards God and the many wonderful promises He has given us.
Here are 9 important facts you need to know about faith:
Journey Of Faith By: Francis Hirak | - What is our journey of faith and how do we get the true understanding of how faith works in our lives? How do we structure and build upon faith as we take our journey through life to where we become strong to the point of maturity?
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. It coveys the idea of something that underlies visible conditions and guarantees a future possession. Faith is, therefore, the basis for hope ... Tags:journey of faith, faith
Where Is Your Faith? By: Annagail Lynes | - What should we place our faith in? In our church denominations? Our elders? The popular television ministries?
Today prominent ministries, prominent preachers and denominations are being swayed by every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14), such as the inclusion doctrine that teaches two ways to enter Heaven: one, by accepting Jesus Christ and two, by being good.
We cannot be good enough to enter Heaven on our own. That is why Jesus died and rose from the dead. A ... Tags:advice, belief, Bible, Christ, destiny, faith, God, Jesus, life, overcoming, problems, purpose, tips, Annagail, Lynes, Annagail Lynes
The American electorate cannot be expected to buy into the myth that a candidate's faith will not influence their electability. Platform and politics over prayer. Spin over spirit. Facts over faith. The electorate needs to reconsider its position in the coming season of elections, especially as it votes for the next President of the United States. The vote should not ... Tags:mitt romney, president, presidential election, oprah, obama, faith, hillary clinton, vote, voters, guilani
God's Word Paves The Way By: ann777 | - She was widowed, lost and penniless. Logic told her to stay with family and traditional beliefs and rituals. But, somehow, deep in her heart, she knew that she had to make a choice, and that was to go forward into as yet unfamiliar territory.
Ruth had learned from her mother-in-law about God and all the miracles He had done. The stories had touched her deeply and now she had to make a decision. She could stay home with her family and customs or go in pursuit of the God of miracle ... Tags:God, Word, follow, Christian, salvation
God's Word Paves The Way By: ann7 | - She was widowed, lost and penniless. Logic told her to stay with family and traditional beliefs and rituals. But, somehow, deep in her heart, she knew that she had to make a choice, and that was to go forward into as yet unfamiliar territory.
Ruth had learned from her mother-in-law about God and all the miracles He had done. The stories had touched her deeply and now she had to make a decision. She could stay home with her family and customs or go in pursuit of the God of miracle ... Tags:God, Word, Way, decision, provision, [Word of God]
Perseverance - The Key To Answered Prayer By: Rob Marshall | - There is a somewhat strange parable in Luke 11. It comes in the middle of some teaching that Jesus is doing in answer to the disciple's request: Lord, teach us to pray.
What immediately follows their request is a sample prayer that we now call the Lord's Prayer. In our church we have a time of community prayer every Sunday when we praise God for answers to prayer, and bring our requests to Him as a church. We always conclude that time with the Lord's Prayer. It's a great examp ... Tags:faith, bible, christian, prayer, perseverance, parable, god, jesus
Any google search on the inspiration of the Scriptures will bring up a surprising amount of results from people who do not believe so. These people can be convincing. However, these arguments are merely the opinions of their authors, with no evidence to back them up.
Religion Without Faith By: Gary Kurz | - A little boy pushed his tiny hand into the Pastor's and said "morning pastor, can I ask you a question?" The Pastor, with his usual warm smile said "Sure Billy, what is it?" "Well" said Billy, "I was wondering what it means to be a Christian"?
"Well Billy" responded the Pastor, "I talk about that every Sunday. I will be explaining it again this morning, but just so you don't have to wait, a Christian is just someone who has given up their sin to the Lord and accepted him as th ... Tags:faith, religion, new age
Christians In America - An Unbelieving Generation? By: Rob Marshall | - In a lot of ways I'm pretty average. I may be a bit taller than some, and probably weigh more than I should, but there isn't really anything extraordinary about me. So when I read the stories in the Bible, and think about how the majority of the people who were there reacted, I assume that I would have done what everyone else was doing.
One example is the story in Mark 9:14-29 about a father who brought his demon-possessed son to be healed. When the father came to the disciples ... Tags:faith, bible, god, christian, jesus, belief, believe, america
Parable Of The Sower: A Lesson On Faith And Abundance By: Rob Marshall | - Many people have heard the statement, "You reap what you sow." Or, as my wife learned when she was making drapes for a living, "You rip what you sew." When it comes to sowing and reaping we often fail to enjoy the blessings that God has for us because we don't fully understand the lesson of the parable of the sower.
The parable of the sower is important because Jesus told his disciples that they needed to understand it in order to be able to understand all the parables (Mark 4:1 ... Tags:faith
Simplest Way To Be Healed By Faith By: Dr. Jay Snell | - Of all the ways our blessed Lord has given us for healing by faith, the following is the easiest. It must be ministered by the elders of the church. James gave us the instructions for this way of healing in the following Scriptures.
James 5:14-15
14Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
