Sin

What is the "unforgivable sin?"

Struggling to forgive someone? Not feeling forgiven yourself? Confide in an email mentor “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy. But blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man...

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To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness
To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness

This article is part of an extended series. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5 [He]  healed all who were sick.  This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:  “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” - Matthew 8:16-17 Christ suffered and died so...

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To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin
To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin

This article is part of an extended series. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. - Revelation 1:5-6 Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. - Hebrews 13:12 Our...

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To Give a Clear Conscience
To Give a Clear Conscience

This article is part of an extended series. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. - Hebrews 9:14 Dirty conscience Some things never change.  The problem of a dirty conscience is as old as Adam and Eve. ...

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To Absorb the Wrath of God
To Absorb the Wrath of God

This article is part of an extended series. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.”  Galatians 3:13 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  1 John 4:10 God...

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To Show that the Worst Evil is meant by God for Good
To Show that the Worst Evil is meant by God for Good

This article is part of an extended series. In this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus . . . both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. - Acts 4:27-28 The most profound thing we can say about suffering...

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A Good Kind of Restlessness
A Good Kind of Restlessness

Take a Life Lesson: Study the End Times and what awaits us beyond this earth Sometimes I feel restless and sometimes I don't feel restless enough. Let me explain. I get these antsy moments when I feel like a job would give me more purpose or a move would bring more excitement into my life. Then there are intervals in which everything is going...

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Dealing with the Problem of Sin and Guilt
Dealing with the Problem of Sin and Guilt

It is not unusual for Christians to feel guilty because of sin in their lives, and to have problems dealing with that guilt and sin. We think that once we have become Christians, we will no longer have a struggle with sin, and that through Christ we will have power to overcome it. Actually, Paul talks about his struggle with sin in Romans 7:18,19:...

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