The Truth About Faith
Faith is important — so much that the writer of Hebrews emphatically declares that you can’t please God without it (Hebrews 11:6). The prophet Habakkuk says the righteous will live by their faith in God (Habakkuk 2:40). But what is faith? Is true faith just a mental exercise with some sort of accompanying confession or acknowledgment of what you believe? Or is it deeper than this and where do you begin to try and understand it?
The Big Baptism Lie
It doesn’t take a first century scholar to read the historical record of the early church and realize Christianity in the 21st century is strikingly different. And the differences aren’t merely artistic or technological. If the book of Acts is truly the blueprint for the church, we must protect the doctrine and practices found in it.