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One of the questions I get asked from time to time is “Does God speak to us today?” There are two camps of people within evangelical circles in this debate. One group says yes and one group says no. There are very mature Christians who find themselves on opposite sides of this question. My own answer is an unhesitating YES.

A friend and I were finishing our work building a puppet stage and I stood back and said, “It will be fun and exciting to use this in our ministry someday.” To my surprise, someday came a lot faster than I thought it would.

Christian webmasters are faced with the challenge of creating a website that provides valuable information, keeps people interested, and keeps them coming back for more. There are a number of different strategies that can be used to go about overcoming this challenge to keep a website fresh and interesting.

Humankind has valued aromatic oils for their healing qualities since the dawn of civilization. These dense, rare substances have been a critical part of medicine and spiritual worship in many cultures across the world. Because creating essential oils necessitates having a large amount of plant material, the final product has always been extremely valuable. In no other body of work is this more visible than in the Old and New Testaments. In the Bible, aromatic oils signified devotion, wealth, medicine and humility. Whether looking at the use of cinnamon to anoint sacred objects used in worship, to the three kings offering Jesus gifts of frankincense and myrrh, oils have had a special niche in Jewish and Christian cultures for centuries.

If you have begun to read the Bible, you have started a noble task. But it is easy to get frustrated or dismayed while reading the Bible if you don’t know where or how to begin. It seems like the beginning is the right place to start, but that would lead you astray. In this article, I will show you a plan to read and understand the flow and thought of the Bible.

Countless people pick up their Bible because they know they are supposed to read it, but they just don’t get much out of it. You may be one of them. Are there large portions of the Bible that you just don’t seem to understand, or just aren’t interesting to you? Do you try to read the Bible but get stuck or bored? Are you in an endless cycle of trying to begin reading the Bible consistently, but failing over and over? Don’t worry. In this article I am going to provide you with a few simple tips that will allow you to read the Bible with understanding instead of frustration.

Lots of people would like to read the Bible regularly. Many have great intentions, but very few actually make a life time habit out of it. Why does this happen? And what makes those who make a habit out of reading their Bible?s different? The reasons can be found in a few easy steps that we will look at in this article.

Here are the five steps. Study or teach 1. The Biblical Principles 2. The Order 3. The Overlap 4. The World 5. The Why

Who were the original twelve apostles and what happened to them? The Bible only mentions the deaths of two apostles, James who was put to death by Herod Agrippa I in 44 AD and Judas Iscariot who committed suicide shortly after the death of Christ. The details of the deaths of three of the apostles (John, the Beloved, Bartholomew and Simon the Canaanite) are not known at all, either by tradition or early historians. The deaths of the other seven apostles are known by tradition or the writings of early Christian historians. According to traditions and the Bible, eight of the Apostles died as Martyrs. At least two of the Apostles, Peter and Andrew were crucified.

Modern scientific discoveries have confirmed that the creation account of the Bible is correct. The creation is covered in 31 verses in the first chapter of the Bible. With only a hundred or so sentences describing we’re clearly not looking at a detailed account of how to create a universe. It is instead a quick outline of the events of creation.