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December 21, 2020
"The Mission Begins": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 28, Session 3: Showing Christ in Times of Trials
Peter addressed his letter to a very specific audience: believers described as chosen people and also exiled people. In a world where those who are chosen, elected, and selected often reap the benefits of preferential treatment and due honor, it may seem odd that Peter associated being chosen with living as exiles. The word exile denotes that someone is an outsider...
December 15, 2020
Do We Have Any Righteousness of Our Own? [99 in :99]
Christians believe that we aren’t justified, or made right with God, because of anything we do, but only by faith in Jesus. So if that’s true, do we have any actual righteousness or are we only said to be righteous? The Bible teaches that Jesus died on the cross as a substitute for us, taking the punishment that our...
December 14, 2020
"The Mission Begins": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 28, Christmas Session: The Word Became Flesh
With the first portion of John’s prologue speaking about the Word’s eternal divinity (“the Word was with God, and the Word was God”) and cosmic activity (“all things were created through him”; “that life was the light of men”), why is the middle portion concerned with John the Baptist (vv. 6-9)? The Old Testament pointed forward to a messenger...
December 8, 2020
What Does Adoption Have To Do With the Gospel? [99 in :99]
In his book Knowing God, J.I. Packer explored how to best summarize the entire message of the New Testament in three words: Adoption through propitiation. And while that might sound like a mouthful, these three words describe something beautiful. Adoption into God’s family is one of the positive benefits of the entire gospel. Jesus, as our propitiation or atoning...
December 7, 2020
"The Mission Begins": Weekly Leader Training—Unit 28, Session 2: Empowered by the Holy Spirit
In Acts 3, the man who was lame was passed by over and over again for years. Perhaps every so often, someone would stop and hand him a few coins. Maybe someone would even pray for him as they passed by while going into the temple. However, his life was riddled with constant helplessness and shame. Peter and John,...
December 1, 2020
Is the Holy Spirit Really a Person? [99 in :99]
What is the Holy Spirit? The word “what” is used in the question intentionally as there are differing opinions on the Spirit’s personhood found in many different religions. But there is a correct answer to the question, so let’s find out what that is. Before we look at what the Bible says about the Holy Spirit, we should consider what...