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1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 – 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.  You’ve heard the question posed in various forms before.  “If you could go to heaven and all of your loved…

Acts 2:38-39—38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”  God gives us an amazing promise…

Romans 12:10—10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Total depravity is the teaching of how the Bible describes the nature of mankind.  It is depraved. It is morally corrupt and wicked.  Total depravity doesn’t mean that we are as morally corrupt and as wicked as we could be but that this corruption and wickedness…

2 Timothy 3:1-5—But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit,…

Mark 9:23-24 – 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” I believe; help my unbelief! This applies for all believers in Christ. Central to sin is our rejection of the truth of what God says—and acceptance or…

John 15:12-13 – 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  In the ultimate display and act of love, Jesus gave up His life for His friends. He has called His followers to follow His example and give up their lives, in love, for their…

1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1 – 31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, 33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. 1 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. …

John 1:4-5 – 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.   The contrast between darkness and light is clear from the beginning of the Bible when God declares “Let there be light” in the midst of the darkness.  And there was light, and the light was good. …

1 Corinthians 4:7 – 7For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?  The Bible teaches us that everything we receive is from God.  We cannot and should not boast in something we received as if it is something we earned or achieved.  This is…

1 Corinthians 11:27-29 – 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on…