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Avoiding Detrimental Assumptions
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsThe world's religions have attempted to cast Almighty God into their faulty images, crafting an evil and destructive situational ethics.
God Will Understand
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsGod pays attention to the small things we may excuse in ourselves, sins we commit in weakness. God's patience does not constitute approval of our sin.
Secret Faults and Presumptuous Thoughts
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsPeople can mentally 'legalize their iniquities,' in doing so attempting to make God the accomplice of their sins. But He will not overlook blatant faults.
The Model Prayer (Part Seven): Forgive Us Our Debts
Bible Study by Richard T. RitenbaughIn His Model Prayer, Jesus states that God's forgiveness of us depends on our forgiving others. Forgiveness spurs reconciliation among God's people.
The Weightier Matters (Part 3): Mercy
Article by StaffMany have a love-hate relationship with mercy: They love to receive it, but hate to give it! Here is why we should lean toward mercy in all our judgments.
Peace, Peace (Part One): Peace with God
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughJeremiah 6:10-15 portrays a society deaf to God—corrupt from leaders to members—where false assurances of "peace" mask deep moral decay, making judgment inevitable; this condition, echoed in Isaiah 59 and affirmed throughout Scripture, reveals that sin severs humanity from God, destroys relationships, and renders true peace impossible despite outward optimism. The New Testament expands this diagnosis, declaring all people guilty under sin and incapable of self-redemption, locked in enmity with God and destined for death. Yet the biblical narrative pivots on Christ's voluntary, substitutionary sacrifice as the Lamb of God, fulfilling prophetic visions like Isaiah 53 and inaugurating reconciliation: through His death and resurrection, He bears sin, satisfies divine justice, and restores peace between God and repentant believers. This peace—granted by grace and received through faith—reverses alienation, liberates captives, and establishes the only foundation for righteousness and spiritual growth, culminating in the reign of Christ, the Prince of Peace, whose redemptive work alone resolves humanity's universal crisis of sin and unrest.
What Is Propitiation? (Part One)
Bible Study by Martin G. CollinsPropitiation is the way God and man can be reconciled and experience a profitable relationship.