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Three Ways to Battle Spiritual Depression

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Are you battling with spiritual depression or discouragement? This article discusses three ways to battle spiritual depression.

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Six Essential Ingredients for Repenting of Pornography

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Pornography is a struggle within the church. How can Christians deal with this struggle? It is only through repentance. This article gives six ingredients that will bring such a repentance from pornography.

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Four Dimensions of Exposing Faulty Worldviews

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We all live with some type of worldview. How do we expose false worldviews and show people their need for Jesus Christ? The church has the gospel, discipleship, missions, and apologetics to do this.

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Three Keys to Listening during Sermons

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This article lists three things you can do to help you get the most of listening to sermons: open your Bible and follow along, listen for key ideas, and learn to interpret Scripture.

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Four Ways to Minister to People with Sexual Addictions

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How to help men addicted to pornography? Build a relationship, learn to speak the truth in love, confront in love, be gospel-centred. These are the four ways discussed in this article.

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The Fight for Human Dignity: Pornography, Sex Trafficking, and the Hope of the Gospel

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How can sex trafficking be stopped? The fight against pornography and human trafficking is the fight for human dignity. Pornography and sex trafficking turn people to slaves. Regaining human dignity can only be through the gospel. This is what the article argues for.

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Five Ways to Help You Grow in Christ and Defeat Your Addiction

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Reading the Bible, being in a Bible-believing church, finding godly friends, confessing your sin, and celebrating victory can be of great help in fighting addiction to pornography. This is what the article argues for.

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Pornography and Purity: Pursuing a Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood to the Glory of God

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How to fight pornography? This article shows that the fight against pornography lies in valuing the biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood. This understanding is an antidote to pornography and what the church can do to promote the biblical view on gender.

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Assurance and Perseverance in Hebrews 6:1-8

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Is Hebrews 6:1-8 contrary to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints? After studying some keywords from this text, the article argues that the passage meets the people of God at their greatest need by wooing them to draw not away from, but deeper into the gospel for greater assurance of salvation and confidence in their salvation.

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Morality and a High View of God

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How can we regain morality? Morality does not come through good works, but through faith in Christ. This article argues that it is a high view of God and Christ that leads to morality. It shows why moral relativism fails.

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The Providence of God

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What is the providence of God? To answer this question this article traces the doctrine of providence in the Bible, and explains how a biblical understanding of providence will help us in our daily lives as Christians.

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The Grace, Mercy, and Patience of God

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What does it mean to say that God is gracious, merciful, and patient? God’s mercy means God’s goodness towards those in misery and distress. God’s grace means God’s goodness towards those who deserve only punishment. God’s patience means God’s goodness in withholding punishment toward those who sin over a period of time. This article explains these attributes of God and their implications for the Christian.

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The Righteousness of God

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What is the meaning of the righteousness of God? God’s righteousness means that God always acts in accordance with what is right. He himself is the final standard of what is right. This article shows how this righteousness is revealed in God's Word and in Christ, which gives the believer assurance of the justice of God.

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What are the Communicable Attributes of God?

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What are the communicable attributes of God? After defining communicable attributes, this article explains the holiness, love, goodness, justice and righteousness, and wisdom of God and how they relate to knowing God.

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What Are the Incommunicable Attributes of God?

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How is God different from creatures? This article can be answered by understanding the difference between communicable attributes and incommunicable attributes. After explaining the difference this article looks at the aseity of God and its implication for believers.

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Preaching the Doctrine of God

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Preaching the doctrine of God starts by noting that God is the preacher. God calls preachers, indwells preachers through the Holy Spirit, equips preachers, and sends preachers. Out of this conviction, the preacher is prepared to preach the glory of God but also he must grow in the ways of God.

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The Image of God and Explanation of Man Created in the Image of God

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What it means to be human? This article examines the answer given by evolution, showing that it only leads to moral relativism. The creation account of man created in the image of God points to another direction.

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Adam a Determinative Hermeneutic in the Bible

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This article argues that our understanding of Adam and the Genesis account is crucial for Bible interpretation. Denying Adam as a real person in real history has devastating consequences on our understanding of the Bible, of mankind, sin, salvation, and other topics. This article demonstrates how this is so.

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Adam, Eve, the Gospel, and the Truthfulness of Scripture

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Is the story about Adam and Eve true? After giving biblical evidence for the truthfulness of the creation account in Genesis 1-Genesis 2, this article shows that to deny the historicity of Adam and Eve is to deny the gospel.

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Speaking About Life: Ministering to Those Facing an Abortion and Helping the Church Be About Life

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Why should Christians stand against abortion? After defining what abortion is, this article gives biblical evidence for the pro-life position. It explains why abortion is wrong, gives statistics on abortion, and shows why Christians must stand up and speak out on ethical issues. It then shows how Christians can minister to those facing an abortion.

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The Five Biblical Basics of Biblical Interpretation

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Key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ. From Luke 24:27 this article argues that Christ is the master of Bible interpretation. Five basics truths are drawn from Christ's way of interpreting Scripture.

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The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What to Do about It

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Biblical illiteracy has become a problem in many churches. This article highlights the proofs of this problem. It show that to gain Bible knowledge again, Christians must learn to hear, read, study, memorize, meditate, and apply God's word.

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The Need for Word Studies

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Knowing the meanings of words is important for Bible reading. How do you determine what words mean? This article argues that the meaning of words lies in how they are used. It gives eight steps for doing word studies for biblical interpretation.

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The Bible and the Interpreter

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Hermeneutics is the science and art of understanding and explaining the meaning of the biblical text. This article gives seven principles to consider for Bible interpretation.

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Reading the Bible for Personal Devotion

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Bible reading for personal devotions is important. This article offers seven tips for nurturing your daily devotions and eight motivations for reading the Bible for personal devotions.

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Reading the Bible with the Church

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This article shows that Bible reading is not mainly an individual endeavour; it is community issue. The author shows that from the time of the apostles the value of the public reading of Scripture was emphasized.

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The Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit in Daily Bible Reading and Discipleship

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How can Scripture be understood? To understand the Bible we need the Holy Spirit. From John 16:13 this article distinguishes the work of the Holy Spirit in inspiration and illumination, to show how He guides us in Bible reading.

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Three Keys to Sermon Listening and Note Taking

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How are you to listen to a sermon? This article gives three keys to sermon listening: have an open Bible, take notes, and learn to interpret.

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Biblical Interpretation through the Centuries

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Is there a right way of interpreting the Bible? This article looks at the two views of Scripture and its interpretation that have emerged in church history: Scripture's meaning lies only in its primary, historical sense; and Scripture's ultimate meaning lies in its fuller, revelatory sense.

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How to Lead a Small Group Bible Study

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How to lead a Bible study? This article looks at the role of the leader in a small groups Bible study, and gives practical tips on leading the study. It also looks at common problems that arise during a Bible study.

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The Incarnation: Jesus Fully God and Fully Man

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Why is Jesus the only Saviour? The answer to this question is found in the truth of the incarnation. It is through the incarnation that the challenge of the atonement is met, for it is only one who is both God and man who can truly atone for sin.

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When Love Lets Us Suffer

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How can God allow us to suffer if he loves us? This article shows how God works for the good in our suffering, from the story of Lazarus' death as recorded in John 11.

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Four Ways Why Being God-Centered Matters in the Lives of His People

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Why is being God-centred essential to the Christian life? It matters because of the gospel, prayer, Bible reading and church community.

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The Problem of Evil in the Book of Job

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Why is there evil in life? Understanding the relationship between the existence of evil and the sovereignty of God and his goodness is essential for every Christian. From the book of Job this article show how suffering relates to God, with focus on the purpose and way of dealing with suffering.

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