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1 Corinthians 15:2
2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.
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The Apostle Paul identifies five essential components: man's utmost happiness (salvation itself), the means to attain it (the gospel), the grace required (believing), the faculty necessary (memory), and the relationship binding them together.
When Socrates drank hemlock in Athens and Caesar fell upon the Roman senate floor, their deaths remained final.
Christ's kingdom exists to bring rebels to obedience within God's government.
This interpretation reveals three essential truths about the Church's nature.
For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet.—The reign of Christ establishes this world as His battlefield now; when this conflict ends, His reign concludes also. "He shall reign till," and no longer. Who are...
The sermon illustration emphasizes the transformative power of Christ's resurrection, highlighting that it is not merely a past event but a present reality that offers new life and spiritual growth. It encourages believers to embrace their identity in Christ and participate in the divine nature through baptism and theosis, affirming that resurrection life begins now and transcends earthly limitations.
The sermon illustration emphasizes the transformative power of Christ's resurrection, presenting it not just as a past event but as a present reality that offers new life and spiritual growth. It highlights the Orthodox understanding of resurrection as a call to participate in divine nature and transformation, encouraging believers to live in the power of Christ's resurrection today.
Consider first the dissolution of the human frame—that wonderful machine bearing the mark of Divine wisdom and skill.
When the Phoenix capsule broke through the surface of the San José mine on October 13, 2010, Florencio Ávalos stepped out into the Chilean night...
On February 23, 1945, a small group of Marines climbed Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag at its...
On April 12, 1955, scientists at the University of Michigan announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." Within minutes, church bells...
In 2013, mountaineer Conrad Anker led a team up the treacherous southwest face of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. The route had never been completed....
In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...
When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the old marrow — diseased, failing, producing only death — is destroyed. New donor marrow is infused,...
On a crisp September morning in Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard foreman Miguel Ruiz walks between rows of Honeycrisp apple trees and plucks a single fruit...