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The Gospel: Essential to the Life of the Church

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 : By Dan Miller

What is the fundamental, common DNA of every person who says they are a Christian? Today we look at that very issue in 2 Corinthians 5 and see that the answer is “the Gospel”. It is fundamental to an individual being a Christian and essential to the life of a church. MP3 download.

Music video by Kenny Chesney with The Wailers performing Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven. (C) 2008 Sony Music Entertainment

 
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Review of the best seller, “The Shack”

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 : By Dan Miller

Tim Challies overviews a review of the best selling book, The Shack.

In the book, Burning Down The Shack, James De Young gives a startling revelation regarding the theological moorings of Paul Young, author of The Shack.

In April of 2004 De Young attended a Christian think tank and there Young presented a 103-page paper which presented a defense of universal reconciliation, a Christian form of universalism—the view that at some point every person will come to a right relationship with God. If they do not do this before they die, God will use the fires of hell to purge away any unbelief (notice the issue is not our personal sin but our unbelief). Eventually even …

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Judgment Day Follow-Up

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 : By Eric Farr

In a previous post, I dealt with a question about the final judgment. One aspect of the question had to do with why there is a judgment if it is a simple matter of unbelievers being condemned and believers being pardoned and entering paradise with the Lord.

In that post, I covered some background on the final judgment. Now I would like to expand on the question of why believers stand in judgment if Christ has already been judged in our place. This is something that was cloudy for me before I examined it more closely and now brings a lot of things together. Much of this comes from the message What Happens When You Die? All Appear Before

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Judgment Day: What’s the Point?

Sunday, July 5th, 2009 : By Eric Farr

Today’s Grace Talk included the following question…

If someone fully believes that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and rose again, yet they are a murderer and kill a ton of people, will they still go to Heaven? Why is there Judgment Day if it is black and white – People who believe in Jesus go to heaven and people who do not go to Hell? What is Judgment Day when we stand before the Lord for then?

Who Goes to Heaven and Why

There is a lot going on in this question. We’ll start by taking a look at the questions raised in the first sentence.

If someone fully believes that Jesus died

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God Questions, Part 5

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 : By Leadership Team

God is a big topic and people have tons of questions so we asked people what were some “God Questions” they would like to see discussed. Today, we talk about “What happens to those people living on an island in the middle of the Pacific who will never hear about Jesus Christ?”

 
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The God Questions, Part 3

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 : By Leadership Team

God is a big topic and people have tons of questions so we asked people what were some “God Questions” they would like to see discussed.  Today, we talk about

Are you saying that over 3 billion people in this world are wrong since they don’t believe in your way to get to heaven? Also, what happens to those people living on an island in the middle of the Pacific who will never hear about Jesus Christ?

 
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