by ccpwebteam | Apr 24, 2018 | Humanity, Monday Study Notes
Last night we continued our exploration of what it means that God became man, by looking at this topic: The incarnation explains our identity and addresses our attempts at self-definition Current ideas about identity: 1. Identity is self-chosen, without reference to...
by ccpwebteam | Mar 28, 2018 | End-Times
Maybe the Bible’s doctrine of the end-times (“eschatology” in theological speak) isn’t something you think about regularly… but maybe we should, more? Like we noted in the previous post, certainly Jesus and the Apostles expected us to...
by ccpwebteam | Mar 26, 2018 | End-Times
As the Apostles wrote the New Testament, under the inspiration of the Spirit, they emphasized the return of Jesus–that it was a reality, that it was to be expected, and that it was to be applying a good, purifying and clarifying kind of pressure to all our...
by ccpwebteam | Mar 23, 2018 | Meditations
Here’s some encouraging thoughts from Alec Motyer, commenting on these verses: Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her who is distressed, As when at first He lightly esteemed The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, And afterward more heavily oppressed...
by ccpwebteam | Mar 20, 2018 | Theology
Last night we took the evening to look at Philippians chapter 2, and try to answer this question: Based on the life and teachings of Jesus, and the witness of the New Testament, what have Christians come to believe about what it means that Jesus was both God (the Son)...