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Believers read the bible during a religious service marking the Day of the Virgin Mary at Sioni Cathedral in Tbilisi, August 28, 2011. For some Christians it's been years since they've cracked open a Bible or carried one to church. While most are familiar with well-known biblical accounts of Moses parting the Red Sea, the extraordinary strength of Samson, or how David conquered Goliath, few build upon these basic Sunday school teachings, resulting in what one apologist calls "biblical illiteracy." In a portion of his new book Unanswered, a volume intended to shed light on several hot-button topics that loom large within the Church, apologist and New Testament scholar Jeremiah Johnston addresses biblical illiteracy and Christians who know "just enough about the Bible to be dangerous." "The Bible can be stripped down, vandalized, added to, taken away [from], and 95 percent of people in the Church would not even know you were doing it because they simp...

Memorise: Blessing shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Deuteronomy 28:3 Read: Deuteronomy 28:1-2,28 1. And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of theLordthy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that theLordthy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2. And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. MESSAGE Jesus Christ said; “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”(Matthew 6:33). In other words, there are abundant blessings in the kingdom of God. It goes without saying that there is wisdom in seeking to please God above all other ambitions. The Almighty God revealed the secret of abundant blessings of His people in today’s scriptural reading; abundant blessing is embedded in perfect obedience to the Word of God. Many...

ANCHOR TEXT: “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me” Job 3:25. In a survey of high-tech employees, Bagozzi, in year 2000 observed that those who spend a lot of time worrying about their jobs are 17 percent less productive than workers who ‘seldom’ or ‘never’ worry about their job. This observation is not only applicable to jobs; it is also applicable to other areas of life; as well as all categories of human being. Happenings in our world are strong enough to intimidate and precipitate doubt; I mean doubt of the possibility of overcoming; doubt of the power of God to help us etc. One thing is that wherever there is doubt there will be fear. Worse still, whatever makes you doubt will make you afraid, and vice versa. Thus, for anything you are afraid of, chances are it will happen. Take for instance, if you are afraid of sickness just for no reason, such sickness will eventually come upon you. If you are afraid that you will fail an examination, chances, ar...

“Also [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up)”  Luke 8:1 [AMP]. A lot of us enjoy watching or even playing a good game of soccer. As long as I can remember, I have always loved to attack and lead counter attacks. I just do not get midfielders that are always passing sideways and backwards; it irritates me. You do not win matches in your lower third; you win matches by attacking. There was this football club that would take the ball straight to their opponent’s box eighteen and do their passes there. Why? It is because you win matches by attacking. And another club that was not very good defensively but would largely score more than their competition. You do not win matches defending. You win matches by attacking - just attack! As at 2015, the best goalkeeper in the world was Manuel Neuer and he was an attacking goalkeeper. Statistics show that he spends more time outside his box eighteen th...