2 Timothy 3:10-17 (NKJV): Nine Marks of a Healthy Pastor But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in
Polygamy is a widespread traditional practice in Kenya. A man feels he is someone, (i.e. a full man) if he has more than one wife! It is a status symbol. There have been a variety of attitudes in the professing Christian Churches. At one extreme has been the demand for the polygamous man to send
This is a question that can cause emotions to run high. Perhaps you think the very question is objectionable, the very thought that it is God who chooses being offensive. Before you stop reading consider the following two questions. Are you able to save yourself from your sins? Are you sure you know what the
This is a very important question to ask because the very reason why Christ came was to baptize His people with the Holy Spirit; so preached John the Baptist (Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16, John 1:33, Acts 11:16). What is ‘baptism with the Holy Spirit’? Apart from the verses above in the Gospels and
Today, if any one says, ‘I believe in Jesus Christ’, then it is assumed he/she is a true Christian. Yet in the Bible the noun ‘faith’ and the corresponding verb ‘believe’ are often used of people who turn out not to be true Christians. We need to examine what is that faith which saves, both
In seeking to answer this question the first thing to do is to think exactly what you mean by the word ‘apostle’. Do you mean what the Bible says, or do you use the word as commonly used today? Obviously there are apostles (in some sense) today as there are many in churches that so
There is a lot of excitement on the subject of tongues in the church of today. Many consider that speaking in tongues is the necessary evidence that a person has received the Holy Spirit. Throughout the world, worship services take place where the whole congregation supposedly erupts into tongues-speaking. Countless individual Christians claim to pray
