Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.” —Genesis 1:26 When most Christians tell the salvation story, they start around Genesis 3, the chapter in which Adam and Eve sinned and caused the fall of humanity. That’s not a bad place to begin witnessing; after all, it is true that…
Some time later, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the believers … and see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise … because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the…
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! —Romans 7:24- 25 Thanks Be to God Many people believe that once you become a Christian, the desire to sin naturally disappears or that temptation to…
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old is gone, the new is here! —1 Corinthians 5:17 The start of a new month often brings hope, but for some of us, each new month feels like an extension of the old one, with the same burdensome problems as before. Those…