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Romans 4 Bible Study: Abraham Believed God
Romans 4 shows that righteousness is received by faith rather than earned by works, using Abraham as Paul’s central example. The chapter explains how God’s promise rests on grace, how faith trusts the God who keeps His promises, and how that same pattern finds its fulfillment in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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What Does it Mean to Believe in Jesus?
Believing in Jesus means more than agreeing that he died for our sins. Saving faith trusts Christ himself, resting in his saving work while recognizing that the Savior we trust is also Lord.
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How Can a Righteous God Bring Unrighteous People to Himself?
This article explores how a righteous God can bring sinful people into fellowship with Himself without compromising His justice. Through Christ’s perfect obedience, sacrificial death, and credited righteousness, the gospel reveals how righteousness and peace meet at the cross.
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What Is Biblical Pride? Ezekiel 28 and the Problem of Moral Independence
Ezekiel 28 shows that biblical pride is more than thinking too highly of ourselves. At its deepest level, pride is a problem of authority: the creature begins to trust personal judgment, wisdom, and desire in a place that belongs to God alone.
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God’s Sovereignty in Suffering
God never promised His people a life without suffering. He promised something stronger: His presence, His rule, His redemption, and His faithfulness through suffering.
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The Names of God: How God Makes Himself Known
God’s names are more than titles. They are forms of divine self-revelation through which God makes His character, authority, covenant faithfulness, and relationship with His people known.
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The Law, the Pharisees, and Christ — Why Did Jesus Confront the Pharisees? – Part 2
Fences around the Torah were intended to protect obedience, but human traditions could eventually obscure the commands they were meant to guard. Part 2 examines how Jesus confronted legalism, restored mercy and faithfulness to their proper place, and revealed that no external boundary can cleanse the human heart.
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The Law, the Pharisees, and Christ — Why Did God Give Israel the Law? – Part 1
The Law Moses delivered wasn’t just rules—it was God’s heart revealed in structure, shaping a people to dwell with Him in holiness and intimacy. Every command whispered of something greater to come, preparing the way for Jesus to fulfill the Law not by erasing it, but by embodying it.
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Romans 3 Bible Study: All Have Sinned and Are Justified by Grace
Romans 3 brings every person under the judgment of sin and then reveals the righteousness God provides through Jesus Christ. This study explores total depravity, justification, redemption, atonement, faith, and why boasting is excluded.
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Romans 2: God Judges Without Favoritism
Romans 2 confronts hypocrisy, false religious security, and outward faith. God judges truthfully and calls us to repentance and inward renewal by the Spirit.
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