Wherever two or three are gathered, you’ve got relationships. They might be great, good, bad, or horrible relationships. They might be benign relationships—next-door neighbors, for example, who have never bothered to introduce themselves—but they are relationships just the same. We are simply hard-wired to live in relationships. God made us to live in relationships by…
Read MoreDo you ever wonder what the original builders think when watching a television show where someone renovates a structure they built? Watching someone take a sledgehammer to a wall you framed and sheetrocked would be a little uncomfortable. Moving walls, opening up or closing a space, and ripping out a bathroom seem to be standard…
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The stone the that the builders rejected – this One has become the cornerstone… (1 Peter 2:7). The cornerstone. The first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation. As the first stone laid, it becomes the reference point for all other stones laid subsequent to it. Everything finds its definition in this one…
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Christianity has come through the fire many times throughout history. Attempts to persecute the church out of existence have repeatedly only refined the church and rendered her stronger. In the first century, the church throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, and Bithynia came under heavy persecution from the crazed Emperor Nero. He burned huge portions of Rome…
Read MorePack Item 4: Timeline: 1,2 Peter; Jude included in the Fall 2016 Explore the Bible Adult Leader Pack contained incorrect information. A corrected version of that Pack Item can be downloaded.here. Thank you for using Explore the Bible. We know you have high expectations for the Explore the Bible resources and we take that expectation seriously. Thank…
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