Prayer is an offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to His will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins and thankful acknowledgment of His mercies. (1 John 5:14; 1 John 1:9; Philippians 4:6; Psalm 10:17; 145:19; John 14:13-14)
We should pray to the true God only, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, not to idols, saints, or anything God has created (Psalm 65:2; 1 John...
Christ rose from the dead, glorious and immortal, on Easter Sunday, the third day after His death.
By his resurrection, Jesus overcame death and opened for us the way of eternal life.
Christ's resurrection proves that
God did not abandon man after he fell into sin, but promised him a Redeemer, who was to satisfy for man's sin and reopen to him the gates of heaven.
Christ had to be true God in order that
By grace I mean a supernatural gift of God bestowed on us, through the merits of Jesus Christ, for our salvation.
There are two kinds of grace, sanctifying grace and actual grace.
Sanctifying grace is that grace which makes the soul holy and pleasing to God.
Actual grace is that help of...
The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.
No, on the contrary, God created man good (Genesis 1:31) and in his image (Genesis 1:26-27), that is, in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4:24), so that he might rightly know God his Creator...
The first man and woman were Adam and Eve.
Adam and Eve were innocent and holy when they came from the hand of God.
The chief blessings intended for Adam and Eve, had they remained...
Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God.
The image of God was this:
This likeness is...
The angels.
Note: Angel means "messenger." God frequently used angels to announce important events in the history of salvation: the birth of John the Baptist (Luke 1:1-20): the birth of Jesus (Luke 1:26-38; Matthew 1:18-21); the resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24:4-7); the ascension and second coming of Jesus (Acts 1:10-11).
Angels are pure...
The Holy Spirit is the third person in the Holy Trinity, true God with the Father and the Son—therefore not merely the power or energy of God (Matthew 28:19).
Because the Scriptures clearly call Him God, teaching that:
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, true God and true man.
Jesus Christ is true God because He is the true and only Son of God the Father.
We mean that Jesus is the only perfect image of the Father, and shows us the...
