THE Bible affirms the necessity of meditation many times, but is biblical meditation different from Buddhist meditation? Buddhist meditation often involves mantras that edify the gods of Buddhism or Hinduism. Meditating on and chanting a word or phrase praising or seeking...
In just a few weeks, the fifth annual report Church & Culture Conference will take place at Mecklenburg Community Church (Meck) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
If you haven't already attended, you may be wondering what the vision is for this event.
God knows that the Christian world does not need another...
Just for a moment, imagine that you are our Heavenly Father and have spoken of a perfect world. From scratch, you created everything and everything was perfect in every way.
You then formed man from clay and breathed the breath of life into...
“With God all things are possible” Verse in the Scriptures
The story
Matthew 19 tells how a rich man asked, “Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?” Jesus told him to keep the commandments. (vs.16,17). The rich man said he...
A friend once told me about a professor he knew who was so distracted that he had to drive to a city and then took a taxi to the airport at the end of the meeting, forgetting that he had come by car....
Definition of Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a movement that originated in America, particularly New England, in the early 19th century and came into full swing in the 1830s. Rather than an actual religious movement, adherents viewed it as a way of thinking. Although specific beliefs...
What does it mean to be in the presence of God?
Is he not always with us?
Have you ever seen a room light up the moment a famous person enters it? Their magnetism has something intangible but very real. Their larger-than-life persona mysteriously charges at you, perhaps even...
Definition of exhortation
In modern usage, exhort can mean “To incite by discussion or advice: to exhort firmly.” We could use exhort interchangeably with invoke, implore, implore or encourage. Words like these are used frequently in Scripture, but the Greek takes us deeper into the heart of the New Testament.
Exhortation...
Shalom is generally understood to mean "peace" or "health" or "prosperity". It carries within itself the idea of completeness. Cornelius Plantinga writes that the word Shalom is “the web together of God, humans, and all creation in righteousness, fulfillment, and...
TheBible is more faithful than any other book ever published. THE Bible was written by God, who always speaks the truth. It is a book of reliable truths about eternal realities.
Jesus and the Apostles Viewed the Old Testament Scriptures as Revelation...
